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re: What book really sparked your love of reading.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 2:39 pm to ruzil
Posted on 11/29/14 at 2:39 pm to ruzil
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The Encyclopedia.
I'm thankful that my mother was prescient enough to purchase a set of encyclopedias for the house. We didn't have much money, but she just knew how valuable having those in the house would be for kids. When I was bored, I'd thumb through the volumes looking all kinds of stuff. And, of course, looking up a few things inevitably lead to looking up even more things.
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Posted on 11/29/14 at 2:45 pm to lsufan9193969700
Zane Grey. The UP Trail.
& everything Louis L'amour wrote except for silverado.
& everything Louis L'amour wrote except for silverado.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 2:47 pm to LoveThatMoney
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Taran Wanderer, by Lloyd Alexander.
I loved those books as a kid. Them and redwall.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 2:52 pm to lsufan9193969700
Posted on 11/29/14 at 2:54 pm to lsufan9193969700
Tom Sawyer. And then Douglas Hill science fiction books for kids.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 3:07 pm to lsufan9193969700
The Pink Dress and The Unchosen in third grade are a couple of the first books I remember loving, but I don't recall at what age I read The Secret Garden, which was a beloved book at an early age.
The Five Little Peppers series, Little Women, Little Men, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The Yearling, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Diary of Anne Frank and A Wrinkle in Time. The Chosen.
A good book is a treasure. I wish I could list them all.
ETA: The Pink Dress and The Unchosen were definitely not literature, and were kind of weird for a third grader, but I loved them.
The Five Little Peppers series, Little Women, Little Men, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The Yearling, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Diary of Anne Frank and A Wrinkle in Time. The Chosen.
A good book is a treasure. I wish I could list them all.
ETA: The Pink Dress and The Unchosen were definitely not literature, and were kind of weird for a third grader, but I loved them.
This post was edited on 11/29/14 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 11/29/14 at 3:12 pm to ruzil
I read the World Book Encyclopedias a lot too.
My favorite was Volume S.
That description of sex was the closest thing I could get to a porno in 1976.
"A man and woman lay next to each other. The man inserts..."
I read that more than the Bible.
My favorite was Volume S.
That description of sex was the closest thing I could get to a porno in 1976.
"A man and woman lay next to each other. The man inserts..."
I read that more than the Bible.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 3:18 pm to Grassy1
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My favorite was Volume S.
S was a good one, but the P volume could scare the shite out of a kid.
poltergeist
parapsychology
psychiatry
paranormal
possession
This post was edited on 11/29/14 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 11/29/14 at 3:18 pm to lsufan9193969700
I'd say mine went in stages. Very early on were these kids beginner series books like King the Mice and the Cheese and Go Dog Go:
And, of course the Dr. Seuss books.
A book that stands out from the next phase was the illustrated kids version of Moby Dick. I'm pretty sure it was this version:
Then I got into comics which kept me reading. And, much like Shutterspeed, my parents invested in a set of encyclopedias - Encylopedia Britanica and the Encylopedia Britanica Jr. companion set. Spent many hours reading stuff in there that caught my attention.
Probably the first literature that really got me reading was either some of Hemingway's short stories like Big Two Hearted River or else maybe something like Red Badge of Courage or White Fang or or Call of the Wild
And, of course the Dr. Seuss books.
A book that stands out from the next phase was the illustrated kids version of Moby Dick. I'm pretty sure it was this version:
Then I got into comics which kept me reading. And, much like Shutterspeed, my parents invested in a set of encyclopedias - Encylopedia Britanica and the Encylopedia Britanica Jr. companion set. Spent many hours reading stuff in there that caught my attention.
Probably the first literature that really got me reading was either some of Hemingway's short stories like Big Two Hearted River or else maybe something like Red Badge of Courage or White Fang or or Call of the Wild
This post was edited on 11/29/14 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 11/29/14 at 3:29 pm to lsufan9193969700
Mom would take us to the library almost every week in the summer when I was in elementary school. Someone already mentioned the Hardy Boys which I also read. But, before that I read almost every volume of the Chip Hilton Series. They are books in which Chip and his buddies are playing sports and overcoming different adversities.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 3:36 pm to Methuselah
Go, Dog! Go! Is my sons favorite book. He would force the daycare lady to read it every morning. The first page only says Dog and he would always reply woof woof. So cute.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 3:47 pm to lsufan9193969700
Any Tom Clancy books- specifically Red Storm Rising or Patriot Games. Also Michael Crighton's Jurassic Park, Congo.
Probably shouldn't have been reading those at 13 years old
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Probably shouldn't have been reading those at 13 years old
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Posted on 11/29/14 at 3:47 pm to CoCo311
Jurassic park
Posted on 11/29/14 at 3:50 pm to lsufan9193969700
Babar The Elephant.
Roald Dahl.
American history & Biography.
Penthouse Forum.
Roald Dahl.
American history & Biography.
Penthouse Forum.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 3:57 pm to lsufan9193969700
The Ralph & the Motorcycle books
Posted on 11/29/14 at 4:25 pm to lsufan9193969700
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Posted on 11/29/14 at 4:26 pm to CoCo311
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Go, Dog! Go! Is my sons favorite book
Posted on 11/29/14 at 4:41 pm to lsufan9193969700
Where the Red Fern Grows.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 4:45 pm to lsufan9193969700
I've been addicted to reading as long as I can remember. I estimate I've read an average of 13 books per year over the last 50 years, or about 650 books and novels. This along with magazines, newspapers, professional journals and such. My favorite books:
• Nausea/Sartre
• Confederacy of Dunces/Toole
• David Copperfield/Dickens
• Great Expectatons/Dickens
• Oliver Twist/Dickens
•Crash/j.g. ballard
• The Rings of Saturn/W.G. Sebald
• The Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
• The Plague/Camus
• Nausea/Sartre
• Confederacy of Dunces/Toole
• David Copperfield/Dickens
• Great Expectatons/Dickens
• Oliver Twist/Dickens
•Crash/j.g. ballard
• The Rings of Saturn/W.G. Sebald
• The Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
• The Plague/Camus
Posted on 11/29/14 at 4:55 pm to LoveThatMoney
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I hated that book to the point that I could only get about halfway through
Same here, I tried years ago and quit and then a couple years after that I started over and finished it. If there was a way to know I would bet good money I have read more books than anyone on here under 40 and I just could not get into that book. On this board people think its one of the all-time greats, I don't know if that sentiment is shared nationwide, but I just didn't get why it gets the praise it does.
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