Destiny and Wrinkle in Time (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Sunday, July 23, 2017, 09:12 (2768 days ago) @ Claude Errera

I disagree with several of your notions of what would make it more than a kids book,

such as?

but I'm just glad you read it and seemed to like it.

I mean I'm glad too, but it's not like it's a cultural touchstone like LotR or better yet Harry Potter (whatever people make think of any of those books), ultimately it doesn't matter if you've read it or not, unless you do something like make a thread mockingly asking if a multi-million-dollar game is ripping off a fucking children's book.

It was a cultural touchstone for me and many people I know. I don't think of it as an effing children's book.

I'm pretty sure this is just an age thing. It wasn't like other things I'd read when I read it (as a young adult), but today it's pretty tame, both in terms of actual content and more abstract themes.

This is what I was talking about, yes.

I don't think GV is looking at it from a historical context, I think he's looking at it as it was presented to him. (Same with other under-30s in this thread.)

What's the context I'm missing? the communism allegory? I picked up on that not long after I first read it and honestly I found it kind of obtuse but also ham-handed, but that's kind of what I expect from a kids' book.