Thankfully this story featured familiar characters. This story was a nice classic adventure story. It introduced a few characters but who ultimately made the adventure more interested and well rounded. I hope the remaining stories are as well thought out as one.
"No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire."
"Contentment with one's lot is true wisdom."
"I am so wise that sometimes my wisdom makes my head ache. I know so much that often I have to forget part of it."
"Dangers don't hurt us. Only things that happen ever hurt anyone, and a danger is a thing that might happen and might not happen, and sometimes don't amount to shucks."
"What everyone says must be true, otherwise what would be the use of their saying it?"
"They seemed happy and contented, though, and those who are contended have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for."
"[It] is of importance only to you, so it is your business to worry over the loss, not ours. If you love us, do not afflict your burdens on us; be unhappy all by yourself."
"In truth, no living creature can know much more than his fellows, for one may know one thing, and another know another thing, and so that wisdom is evenly scattered throughout the world."
"'If any of you is naughty, I'll send him to some boy or girl in America to play with.'
"This dreadful threat made all the toy bears look solemn."
Friday, February 16, 2018
Friday, February 9, 2018
Sam Reviews "Rinkitink in Oz" by L. Frank Baum (Oz, #10)
This wasn't a bad story as far as children's adventure stories go, but like the last story it's barely about Oz. It's discouraging to be so close to the end of this 14 book collection only to have the stories to be hardly related to the Land of Oz and the familiar characters there. Admittedly, I probably would not have read this story were I not attempting to read all off the Oz books. I can only hope that the remaining 4 books are more closely and clearly related to the true Land of Oz.
"Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders."
New vocabulary I learned with this book:
"Molly-coddle" - Verb; treat (someone) very indulgently or protectively. Or noun; an effeminate or ineffectual man or boy; a milksop.
"Prig" - a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
"Those who do the least, often shout the loudest and so get the most glory. Inga did so much that there is danger of his becoming more important than we are, and so we'd best say nothing about him."
"No magic can stand against a woman's cunning."
"Poor people are often obliged to take chances that rich ones are spared."
"I have noticed that some men become rich, and are scorned by some and robbed by others. Other men become famous, and are mocked at and derided by their fellows. But the poor and humble man who lives unnoticed and unknown escapes all these troubles and is the only one who can appreciate the joy of living."
"This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest thought."
"The beauty of life is its sudden changes. No one knows what is going to happen next, and so we are constantly being surprised and entertained. The many ups and downs should not discourage us, for if we are down, we know that a change is coming and we will go up again; while those who are up are almost certain to go down."
"Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders."
New vocabulary I learned with this book:
"Molly-coddle" - Verb; treat (someone) very indulgently or protectively. Or noun; an effeminate or ineffectual man or boy; a milksop.
"Prig" - a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
"Those who do the least, often shout the loudest and so get the most glory. Inga did so much that there is danger of his becoming more important than we are, and so we'd best say nothing about him."
"No magic can stand against a woman's cunning."
"Poor people are often obliged to take chances that rich ones are spared."
"I have noticed that some men become rich, and are scorned by some and robbed by others. Other men become famous, and are mocked at and derided by their fellows. But the poor and humble man who lives unnoticed and unknown escapes all these troubles and is the only one who can appreciate the joy of living."
"This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest thought."
"The beauty of life is its sudden changes. No one knows what is going to happen next, and so we are constantly being surprised and entertained. The many ups and downs should not discourage us, for if we are down, we know that a change is coming and we will go up again; while those who are up are almost certain to go down."
Friday, February 2, 2018
Sam Reviews "The Scarecrow of Oz" by L. Frank Baum (Oz, #9)
"Seems to me ... as how the more we know, the more we find we don't know. ... Those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge."
"It's a big world, Flipper, my son, and I've heard that in parts of it live queer two-legged creatures called Men, who war upon all other living things and would have little respect for even an Ork."
"Certainly I'm afraid, but if we intend to escape we can't stay on this shelf forever."
"'A young lady cannot decide whom she will love, or choose the most worthy. Her heart alone decides for her, and whomsoever her heart selects, she must love, whether he amounts to much or not.' Trot was a little puzzled by this speech, which seemed to her unreasonable; but she made no reply."
"I believe love and cats have nine lives."
"It's a big world, Flipper, my son, and I've heard that in parts of it live queer two-legged creatures called Men, who war upon all other living things and would have little respect for even an Ork."
"Certainly I'm afraid, but if we intend to escape we can't stay on this shelf forever."
"'A young lady cannot decide whom she will love, or choose the most worthy. Her heart alone decides for her, and whomsoever her heart selects, she must love, whether he amounts to much or not.' Trot was a little puzzled by this speech, which seemed to her unreasonable; but she made no reply."
"I believe love and cats have nine lives."
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