From: Charles Bayless <charles.bayless_at_ttmd.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:10:34 -0400

More boy oriented series would have to include any of the prolific Western writers such as Louis L'Amour (who had some explicit series) and Zane Grey (whose books were not really series so much as a sequence of books with the same form even if different characters. Maritime series would include C.S. Forester's Hornblower series and Alexander Kent's Richard Bolitho series.

My experience has been that reluctant boy readers can navigate to habitual reading by finding some gripping stand-alone book within a genre and then transition into a series within that genre; for example, Shane by Jack Schaefer and then onto any of Louis L'Amour's works/series; or alternatively, some maritime disaster account that has gripped them (Titanic, Bermuda Triangle, Pirates, Shipwreck) and then on to Hornblower.

Charles Through the Magic Door www.ttmd.com Charles.bayless_at_ttmd.com
Received on Wed 10 Aug 2011 01:10:34 PM CDT