I wasn’t denying that you could hold lengthy conversations about the books with kids. Just questioning if they serve to supplant works of greater literary value on a class syllabus. Feel free to post an oustanding sentence from one of the books.
“To one as young as you, I’m sure it seems incredible, but to Nicolas and Perenelle [both over 600 years old], it really is like going to bed after a very, very long day. After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. You know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all — the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
Here are a few sentences.