Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for July 23, 2011
Transcript:
verne: bedtime, hammy...I'll have to try to get those head mice out tomorrow. ready for your story? hammy: Oh boy, yes! verne: ...."chapter 6....dmitri fyodorovitch, a young man of eight and twenty of medium height and agreeable countenance... geronimo! verne: huh....I guess they're not fans of classic russian literature. hammy: too bad. so sad.
I’ve heard that it’s even worse in the original Russian. The imagery is excruciating because the winters are long. It is definitively an art form, & as such is not suitable to all audiences. If it’s easy to like it’s amusement, not art.