So.
I've been aware of this book for a long time. I was a huge Gene Wilder mark in the 90's while growing up, and my knowledge of the story started there. Eventually I came across the clips of him as the fox from the 1970's adaptation. Skip over 10 years later, I keep hearing about this book, making its way to be a new film. And after it was dropped and picked up again in production, then I watched the Netflix trailer. Then I watched the original trailer from almost a year ago.
Then I bought the book on my Kindle.
Growing up I only had a few solid stories to guide my life. My parents had an illustrated and dramatized version of several stories from the King James Bible that they would read to me every night, as well as stories like Watership Down and a large selection of Shel Silverstein books that I started reading in my own time. But even today, as much as I'd like to think of myself as a literary man who adores Keats and Christie, I can't help but wish The Little Prince was I'm my life much sooner. The Little a Prince gives me the same feelings I had the first time I read the manga for Azumanga Daioh; regret and longing. There is too much present in the story that can been felt directly in my conscious that can't be ignored, but at the same time can't be directly acted on. It's too late. It's like feeling regret, but still being appreciative of what you know.
After my first time through, I was a bit of a mess emotionally to say the least.
It was an odd and sad feeling. Even though in a way it's a story that feeds off the nostalgia of youth in general (not just for those who heard the story), I feel now like that was the stories intention for them most part, to appeal to adults. While it appears to be a fairly simple children's book, I'm sure adults reading this to their kids got just as much or more out of the story.
Were you ever told this story as a child? I'm kind of left wondering how it would of effected the life of someone like me who had heard the story while being very young. I was told stories from the bible, and though I'm not a religious person in the least today, there are stories and tales I love from the bible, that gave me a sort of narrative center for my personality growing up.
I feel like this story could of been just as strong for a child growing up.
I've been aware of this book for a long time. I was a huge Gene Wilder mark in the 90's while growing up, and my knowledge of the story started there. Eventually I came across the clips of him as the fox from the 1970's adaptation. Skip over 10 years later, I keep hearing about this book, making its way to be a new film. And after it was dropped and picked up again in production, then I watched the Netflix trailer. Then I watched the original trailer from almost a year ago.
Then I bought the book on my Kindle.
Growing up I only had a few solid stories to guide my life. My parents had an illustrated and dramatized version of several stories from the King James Bible that they would read to me every night, as well as stories like Watership Down and a large selection of Shel Silverstein books that I started reading in my own time. But even today, as much as I'd like to think of myself as a literary man who adores Keats and Christie, I can't help but wish The Little Prince was I'm my life much sooner. The Little a Prince gives me the same feelings I had the first time I read the manga for Azumanga Daioh; regret and longing. There is too much present in the story that can been felt directly in my conscious that can't be ignored, but at the same time can't be directly acted on. It's too late. It's like feeling regret, but still being appreciative of what you know.
After my first time through, I was a bit of a mess emotionally to say the least.
It was an odd and sad feeling. Even though in a way it's a story that feeds off the nostalgia of youth in general (not just for those who heard the story), I feel now like that was the stories intention for them most part, to appeal to adults. While it appears to be a fairly simple children's book, I'm sure adults reading this to their kids got just as much or more out of the story.
Were you ever told this story as a child? I'm kind of left wondering how it would of effected the life of someone like me who had heard the story while being very young. I was told stories from the bible, and though I'm not a religious person in the least today, there are stories and tales I love from the bible, that gave me a sort of narrative center for my personality growing up.
I feel like this story could of been just as strong for a child growing up.