Re: Book suggestion for 11 year old

In article <481e65a7$0$4048$9a566e8b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
AJ <torturedartist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"tphile" <tphile@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>news:e95cd87c-d4ce-4731-a538-bdb198070295@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>On May 4, 1:11 pm, "AJ" <torturedart...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Hey, i have an 11 year old. I want to encourage his reading a bit
more.
>>> The problem is he's more of a sword and dragons guy wheras I was
always 
>>> more of a ray gun type.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>Tell him he is forbidden from reading any of those books.
>>That will motivate him for sure.
>>especially if you say they are too smutty for him.
>
>lol no he's still at the phase where I'm god.  not big G, but little g
god. 
>lol.  Basically I'm the cooler older kid to him. 

Do I detect use of parental rose-tinted spectacles here? Unless he's a
quite
unusual 11-year old, he's beginning to probe the boundaries by now. If not
by 
reading forbidden books, then in some other way.

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 [at] cam.ac.uk