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Topic: What did you read.?
Moondark's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:10 PM
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....

MirrorMirror's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:14 PM
:smile: I can recall reading Pinochio when I was about 6 years old.:smile: Probably the first book I read.I can recall reading westerns in late elementary school.:smile: then a lot of sci fi.:smile: Then fantasy.:smile: Then horror novels.:smile:

GG2's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:16 PM
I read Archie and Jughead. laugh I also remember reading my mom's 'True Confessions' magazines. Looking back, I wonder why she didn't take them from me. what



I guess that explains why I'm on this fine site. rofl rofl

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Thu 04/23/09 08:16 PM
*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.. :angel:

GG2's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:18 PM
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! noway grumble

lulu24's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:20 PM
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.

metalhead1969's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:21 PM
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


MirrorMirror's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:26 PM

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.
bigsmile Thats how I was until I was about 17 or 18 then I started to like girls more than reading bigsmile laughlollaugh

Moondark's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:27 PM
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.

Ticklish_1981's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:27 PM
Ha ha...Every Sunday I would get a new Betty and Veronica Digest. I had a box full.

metalhead1969's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:29 PM
same here

my mom thought that me readin was keepin me from gettin trashed and raisin hell...

yeah, right
smokin drinker pitchfork

Winx's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:31 PM
I was a little girl, I loved Louisa May Alcott books. I still have them.

lulu24's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:36 PM
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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Thu 04/23/09 08:39 PM
Everything I could get my hands on, I was grounded a lot so that was all I could do pitchfork

I remember The Phantom Tollbooth being one of my favorites bigsmile

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Thu 04/23/09 08:45 PM
Edited by Beachfarmer on Thu 04/23/09 08:45 PM
flowerforyou 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.

Winx's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:49 PM
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.laugh

Winx's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:50 PM

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.flowerforyou

I have a lot of books for my child too.

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Thu 04/23/09 08:53 PM
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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Thu 04/23/09 08:54 PM

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.laugh


Lol... same here.

Winx's photo
Thu 04/23/09 08:55 PM


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.laugh


Lol... same here.


Those were the days.happy

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