Yep. Thanks. I am taking my entire Catholic family. My kids loved the book. They know fact from fiction, at their young age. Apparently, some people never "get it."
Why? Because everyone else does? Do you feel you have to belong, connect to the mainstream culture by reading such kitschy trash and seeing a bad movie (check out the reviews on rottentomatoes.com)? Would you feel left out if you didn't read the book, didn't watch the movie? These are serious and I hope not mocking questions. Confession: I didn't start watching Seinfeld until last year in re-runs (and I don't watch anything else.) Never felt left out. No, I'm not a better person of better Christian than you. It's just I don't understand this rush to be part of the mob consuming cultural products aimed at the lowest common denominator of taste. No Kenny G, no Garth Brooks, no Brown, no Tom Clancy for this cat. Let's aim high, let's at least aspire...
As I said on another thread...I rememember my elementary school class going to the library to learn all about the Dewey System, what fiction and nonfiction means etc.
Somewhere along the way I learned that +A Novel+ on the cover means it is fiction. Maybe all the folks losing their minds over this book and movie were sick the day their school covered all that.