<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 6/24/2003 10:31:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, a5foil@ix.netcom.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">To demonstrate how good they are -- When the first book came out, my (then<BR>
70)father read a review of it and called to ask if he thought my daughter<BR>
(then turning 10)would like a copy for her birthday. I said yes, and he went<BR>
out and got the book. And *then* he called and said he would send it -- just<BR>
as soon as he finished reading it himself. My father almost never reads<BR>
novels, and *absolutely* never reads juvie fantasy</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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I got my mother hooked on them by loaning her the first book, and have taken her to both movies. My mother is 75...When she had two knee replacements done over this past winter, she took my copy of the fourth one to the hospital with her.<BR>
I resisted the urge to check them out for years, until my husband finally got the audiobook of the first one and insisted I listen to it on a long car trip...now I'm hooked. I highly recommend the audiobooks, by the way; they are read by Jim Dale, who is simply fantastic. He does different voices for all the characters and you can tell who is talking just by the voice.<BR>
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Brangwayna</FONT></HTML>