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When you were little.
I started reading Mythology, Fantasy, SciFi, Shakespeare, Poe, Hawthorne, and the like in grade school. Early grade school. I didn't start reading comic books until High School. I may have done things backwards.... |
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I can recall reading Pinochio when I was about 6 years old. Probably the first book I read.I can recall reading westerns in late elementary school. then a lot of sci fi. Then fantasy. Then horror novels.
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I read Archie and Jughead. I also remember reading my mom's 'True Confessions' magazines. Looking back, I wonder why she didn't take them from me.
I guess that explains why I'm on this fine site. |
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*Hans Christian Andersen' Fairy Tales and Stories
*The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up and A Light In The Attic.. all by Shel Silverstein I would read them over and over and over.. |
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Our neighbor at our beach house when I was young had those gory 'True Detective' ragmags. Jeepers no wonder I'm so f*cked up in the head!
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i jumped into stephen king in second grade...
and so started my love affair with the written word. i could give up breathing before going a day without a book in my hand. |
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read normal stuff til i hit 3rd grade. that's when my mom took me to see ralph backshi's animated "lord of the rings"
that's the first time i read the trilogy. i'v been hooked ever since. just finished readin them again a few weeks ago :D got into comics in middle school and sci-fi in hs |
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i jumped into stephen king in second grade... and so started my love affair with the written word. i could give up breathing before going a day without a book in my hand. |
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My mom was kinda clueless about my books. She bought me a Gor book to keep me quiet when traveling. It had a guy w/ a sword. She didn't know what was inside it. I didn't tell her..... But she took Pet Cemetery away from me that same summer. Since she had read that one. Dang, she had no clue what I was reading. Pet Cemetery was nothing compared to the other stuff I've red.
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Ha ha...Every Sunday I would get a new Betty and Veronica Digest. I had a box full.
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same here
my mom thought that me readin was keepin me from gettin trashed and raisin hell... yeah, right |
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I was a little girl, I loved Louisa May Alcott books. I still have them.
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the only book my mother ever asked me not to read was "the exorcist".
i was in third grade...i read about half when i decided i agreed with her and put it down. my mom bought me any book i wanted. poor as dirt, but i had books coming out my ears. she even found out when the local bookstore threw out its books as destroyed and went and picked them up. i put down "the exorcist" and picked up a darkover novel by marion zimmer bradley...and that's where i found my true love: fantasy. |
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Everything I could get my hands on, I was grounded a lot so that was all I could do
I remember The Phantom Tollbooth being one of my favorites |
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Edited by
Beachfarmer
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Thu 04/23/09 08:45 PM
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Great Post BTW!
Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, and of course Willy, Loved the humor and andventure of Twain...but Having recently moved, I rediscovered the original copy of Thoreau's Walden that my father gave me when I was 10. I have done this periodically through the years and darnit if I don't ALWAYS discover something new. There is no such thing as a favorite book, but for me, "Walden" is as close as it gets. |
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I used to get in trouble when I would get caught reading under the blankets with a flashlight when I was supposed to be sleeping.
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the only book my mother ever asked me not to read was "the exorcist". i was in third grade...i read about half when i decided i agreed with her and put it down. my mom bought me any book i wanted. poor as dirt, but i had books coming out my ears. she even found out when the local bookstore threw out its books as destroyed and went and picked them up. i put down "the exorcist" and picked up a darkover novel by marion zimmer bradley...and that's where i found my true love: fantasy. You had a special mom. I have a lot of books for my child too. |
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My first real reading was Hardy Boys. Encyclopedia Brown was fun too. I remember awaiting every new release. Around 2nd grade I read L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time which got me started on fantasy and sci-fi... Heinlein and Bradbury at first.
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I used to get in trouble when I would get caught reading under the blankets with a flashlight when I was supposed to be sleeping. Lol... same here. |
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I used to get in trouble when I would get caught reading under the blankets with a flashlight when I was supposed to be sleeping. Lol... same here. Those were the days. |
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