[Richard Kimball]

You nailed that one. With all the Rander's at FR, I'm amazed you haven't been nailed to the wall yet. I tried to read it, but had pretty much the same opinion as you.

BTW, books everyone SHOULD have read as a kid, and are still great (I got to read them over again to mine):

Little House series
The Jungle Books
Old Yeller (can I admit I still get misty at the end?)
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

[PJ-Comix]

BTW, books everyone SHOULD have read as a kid...

Maybe I was a weird kid but I when a kid I mixed my Hardy Boys with "Travels of Xenophon," "Sirens of Titan," and Sherlock Holmes.