Chris Colfer’s Rise From “Glee” Star to a Best-Selling Children’s Book Author
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ย. 2024
- “Glee” star and author Chris Colfer joins our “Let’s Get Lit” episode highlighting authors behind some of the newest must-read books. He opens up about his popular children’s book series, The New York Times bestselling “The Land of Stories.” From the newest release “A Tale of Sorcery” to criticism he’s faced, Chris doesn’t hold back.
Even though the books were published a while ago, The Land Of Stories was one of the best things that could have ever happened to me. When I pretty much had no one to talk to during school, the characters were always there for me. They were like my best friends. I wish they were all real people to be honest. TLOS was also relatable because I felt similar things that Alex and Conner went through (loneliness, fear, etc.). Chris Colfer is one of the most inspiring, amazing, authors I’ve ever known. This guy changed my life and I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him. Thank you 💕
Chris is inspiring to all people who like writing. I love him a lot!
Chris Is amazing i love him! His books changed my life
MY BESTIE IS THERE EVEN THO IT WAS SO LONG AGO❤❤❤
OMG EL ITS OUR BESTIE
I love Chris so much and I'm so proud of him! ❤️ 😍
I’m rereading the Land of Stories and loaned them out to my nephew so he could read them ❤️ my daughter is 5 so we read them aloud at bedtime.
This is amazing
And he probe them all wrong
18 books
I love his books and if I had kids, I'd have them read his books. I could care less if parents aren't ready for their kids to read book written by someone who's gay. Fuck it!
I love all your books Chris!!
Omg I lovvve the tale of sorcery😍
But is a movie happening?
There was one for land of stories but after Disney bought fox company, it may have been canceled and Chris said he was Tryna Find a new home (movie company) for the said movie .
Full of static characters and stereotypes
My kids and I will occasionally do a book swap and I'll read something they recommend. My 9 year old daughter gave me this book and I was surprised to find how much I disliked it. The 1 star reviews on this are nearly all from conservative people, and I share many of their concerns, but will try not to repeat them here. The reason I didn't like this book is similar to why I disliked Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged so much. The book depicts a world where all the characters that align with the author's world view are good and noble, and all the characters that don't are evil and bad.
I can't think of a single character that changes their point of view. I don't recall any character really growing. While the explicit message of the book is that all people are capable of good and evil and that harboring hate in your heart is bad, the implicit message contradicts this. Evil people started evil and end evil, good people the opposite. The main character has a final encounter with her father that I found particularly shocking. He's a vile misogynist who never changes (all but one of the male characters of note are like this) and he says vile things to his daughter. His daughter having recently witnessed hate consuming someone, doesn't seem to recall the explicit message of not letting hate consume you and responds hatefully in turn to her father before storming away, righteously triumphant.
Nuance and true character development aren't something I necessarily expect from a children's book, but nor are hurtful stereotypes of men as misogynists and people of faith as evil puppet masters. I worry that after reading this, my daughter is slightly more likely to believe that all men are out to oppress her and that people of faith are all secret charlatans just using religion to convince people to accept their oppression.
If that's your world view of men or religion, I feel sorry for you. If it's not, consider another book.