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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Penguin on March 11, 2012, 09:08:46 PM
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What is the best book that you ever read before you declared yourself a 'teenager'? Mine is without at a doubt "The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers. It came out in 1999 and I've read it cover to cover four times. I'm taking my fifth journey into that wondrous land even though I'm fifteen- it's good for all ages and the writing quality is incredible. Don't try to read it quickly, though. Read it in bed each night, and keep going until your eyelids get in the way. It'll last you a month if not more.
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The Hobbit
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Red Nails by REH
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
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The Hobbit
Hey me too. The first novel I ever read.
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Spare Parts by Buzz Williams
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Where the Red Fern Grows, Grapes of Wrath, and the big one, a book I got as a 10-year old from a Goodwill bin. It was all about the Pacific naval war.
Boo
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Where the red fern grows, old yeller, all the eye witness books
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Gotta go with The Hobbit too...
But I also really enjoyed Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
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Red Dwarf
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Jurassic Park
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30 Seconds over Tokyo --- read it 7 times before getting out of school
God is My Co-Pilot (Between GIMC and TSOT I was doomed to be a pilot)
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As a kid, Charlie in the Chocolate Factory was my favorite. The Lord of the Rings as a whole is my favorite now though. Tolkien has such imagination and eloquence as to amaze me every time I read even a portion of it over again.
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War and Peace. Not even kidding. Mind you, I didn't understand a lot about the time period, but it was an interesting read, lots of the whole cavalry/artillery thing. I need to re-read it though. Been a few years :/
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"The Last Full Measure" - the only book that's ever made me want to man-cry.
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Life of Pi. Also, gonna say it, Harry Potter. Got the first book when I was 7-8, and read it nonstop (was a tad slow reader, and stayed up many nights with a flashlight under covers reading.
Also, anything by Dahl or Dr. Seuss (didn't say how old counted as being a kid :neener:).
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Life of Pi
Forgot about that one... that was wicked.
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Emmanuelle :O
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'The Cablecar and the Dragon' by Herb Caen was the first book I can remember reading; still have my signed 1st edition.
The best book I ever read as a kid is a toss-up between Heinlein's 'Citizen of the Galaxy' and 'Starman Jones'; I have re-purchased those books over the years time-and-time again.
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Emmanuelle :O
Truth be told, probably one of the best books I read as a kid too. Linda Lovelace's biography was probably a close second.
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The bible... Kids edition
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Dune
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Loved God As My Copilot. Also, McCampbell's many great ones to choose from.
Boo
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ok real young?
Ferdinand the bull......
and "where the red fern grows" that was a good book
once I read REH (12 yo), every other author, just pales in comparison :aok
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Dune
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What's that about? My dad is trying to get me to read it, but I keep putting it off.
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"Night of the never ending Dawn". Very inspiring and changed my life.
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First book I ever checked out of the grade school library. 2nd Grade. I think i was the only one to check it out the rest of my elementary school days. It's been all downhill ever since. There were others in the series but this one sent me over the edge on WW2 fighter pilots. American Heritage had one called "Airwar over Hitler's Germany' that was a close second, but I found this one first. Some of the old timers will remember the Ballantine Books series on WW1 and 2 also. We could buy those at grade school book fairs. Amazing stuff for a history minded little kid. Clearly they all made a huge impression as it's still my passion all these years later.
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old yeller FTW first on ive read, also first one i cried in :cry
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Animal Farm by George Orwell and the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury :old:
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This was my first favorite book.
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Air Combat Tactics and Maneuvering by Robert Shaw.
No kidding. I loved that stuff, loved that book. Found it at a public library when I was 12.
Thunderbolt by Robert S. Johnson and the Spitfire book (Wing commander?) by Johnny Johnson were up there too.
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I was a prolific reader as a kid. I read everything I could lay my hands on in the junior section of the public library, history, aviation, military and stories. I can hardly pick one out. I also loved the Biggles books.
But I suppose if I had to pick one it would be Tom Sawyer. I re-read that several times. I liked Treasure Island too.
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God is My Co-Pilot
THIS
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Reach for the Sky
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About Spitfire pilot Douglas Bader
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Remarkable man
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Hustler.
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Hujavascript:void(0);stler.
:aok :lol
and i never really liked reading, but one book that i know i liked was
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"Fighting the Flying Circus" by Eddie Rickenbacker
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Sun Tzu: The Art of War
The Things They Carried
Lord of the Rings (All of them)
Guns Germs and Steel
Not so much as a kid but as a teen I liked these books.
Never really enjoyed all those Seuss and Dahl books.
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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - By Stephen R Donaldson (6 books)
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"Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers. i still consider it to be one of the best books i've ever read. had to read it for school, wound up reading and re-reading it several times. can't believe nobody has said this one, especially on this forum.
and of course "Where The Red Fern Grows" that book will stand out in my mind for all of my days.
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I was a prolific reader as a kid. I read everything I could lay my hands on in the junior section of the public library, history, aviation, military and stories. I can hardly pick one out. I also loved the Biggles books.
But I suppose if I had to pick one it would be Tom Sawyer. I re-read that several times. I liked Treasure Island too.
Treasure Island would be first then Tom Sawyer, spent many youthful days as a pirate Arrrggggg!
Anyone remember Foundation and Empire? (Sci Fi)
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LOL
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This was my first favorite book.
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We just read that in my American history class two weeks ago as an example of how literature reflected that time period!! (And I'm a sophomore in college! lol)
My favorite novel was definitely Where the Red Fern Grows. I never really like reading, still don't, but that was the first book I really wanted to just keep reading.
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I learned how to read at the age of four and after that I read everything in the house, including milk cartons at the breakfast table. The first book that really hooked me was the Jungle Book (text only) by Rudyard Kipling. We were visiting my oldest cousin and her husband, and they had it in the bookshelf. I hardly managed to leave the book there, and to my pleasant surprise Santa brought me a copy the following Christmas. I'm not sure if I had even started school back then. Anyway I must have been quite young, since my little sister smudged some pages with a crayon as a revenge for my colouring a couple of pictures in her colouring book. I still have the book and a few of years ago I read it out to my daughters as a bedtime story, some thirty pages at a time, breaking the story in an intriguing situation.
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We just read that in my American history class two weeks ago as an example of how literature reflected that time period!! (And I'm a sophomore in college! lol)
My favorite novel was definitely Where the Red Fern Grows. I never really like reading, still don't, but that was the first book I really wanted to just keep reading.
Did you boo the modern diesel and electric shovels? I wanted to smash them when I was first reading it around 5 years old.
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Did you boo the modern diesel and electric shovels? I wanted to smash them when I was first reading it around 5 years old.
Hahaha as a matter of fact we did. At least they finally found a good use for her after they were finished!
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Hahaha as a matter of fact we did. At least they finally found a good use for her after they were finished!
That's right, they did exactly the same thing as they still do with obsolete technology. They put it in public schools.
Hey you younger people. Does every teacher still have an Apple II in their classroom? Mine did and I graduated in 1997.
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What age range?
As a kid, the most impressionable on me was "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein. I can remember the last pages of the story and they still touch me.
As a teenager, in high school, I distinctly remember three: "Catcher in the Rye" bye J.D. Salinger (probably still part of today's curriculum), "A Farewell to Arms" by Hemingway, and "Will" by G. Gordon Liddy.
I've definitely forgotten more than I remember, and I wish I made time to read more often. My wife can read two paperbacks every day...
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A kestrel for a Knave. Barry Hines
Our Man in Havana. Graeme Green
Danny Champion of the World. Roald Dahl (my mum helped me read that when I was 5 :D
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Thunderbolt by Robert S. Johnson and the Spitfire book (Wing commander?) by Johnny Johnson were up there too.
:aok I loved those too.
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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - By Stephen R Donaldson (6 books)
"white gold wielder" :headscratch:
think I read the first 3
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That's right, they did exactly the same thing as they still do with obsolete technology. They put it in public schools.
Hey you younger people. Does every teacher still have an Apple II in their classroom? Mine did and I graduated in 1997.
Class had one back in 2nd grade, that was fun to play on.
But then at that time we watched movies on projectors and educational stuff on slide projectors with the cassette tape for audio.
"blah blah blah blah........BEEP"
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Sphere
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In HS we had the "Lord of the flies","the Red Pony", and a couple of Shakespeares, but it was "work", not fun. Then in our senior year the teacher showed us some crap book and said either we could read this, or if we all bought our own copy we could read a new book that was just out and it was said this thing was great. So we all bought a copy of "JAWS" and I've never looked back! I read that book 3 times during the course, the first time I finished it in two nights, talk about not being able to put a book down! I have been hooked on books ever since.
After HS I went into the Navy and we had a lot of down time on ship, as well as watches. It was easy to load up before a trip with 15-20 books and hook up with other guys to swap them around. Going through a few paperbacks a week was nothing. After the service I was still a smoker. They were starting to crack down on smoking in the work place so I would read on smoke breaks which extended to my home once my wife became pregnant. Again a few paperbacks a week were nothing. Luckily we had a second hand bookstore/swap place in town. I think I was the one that keep them in business so long. After I quit smoking my reading fell off. I had a couple kids to play with anyway, didn't have the time for books as much, maybe fell off to one a week, maybe a bit less.
Now the kids are all grown, and I'm starting to find those few minutes a day to read again. On top of that, I am a member of Audible, and a couple of on-line libraries. I drive a lot for my job and use downloaded books with my GPS unit to "listen" to books as I drive. I'm back up to almost 2 books a week !! I know all about the "one Tree" and white gold, followed "my precious" through the worlds of middle earth. Been to "Pern" with the dragons, "Hogwarts" with Harry and the "ring worlds". I've "Hitched Hiked Across the Universe" and been "Around the world in 80 Days" a number of times. I've swung through the trees with Tarzan, and had as many "slave girls" as I could find on "GOR".
I'm one of those lucky people who can read a book a number of times. My favorites I keep and read over and over, sometimes buying a new copy when the old one wears out. I have a couple hundred books I save as favorites, plus another 100 on my computer for my GPS. Reading this thread I though it was kinda funny some of the responses. To some it sounds like they had a hard time to name a book. Is it because they have read a lot of good ones or is it because they haven't seen that many books and it was hard to choose one of the few that they did read. It all started for me with "JAWS". It opened up a whole new world, even tho I lived an hour away from that "beach" and had been to a few of those sleepy island towns. Seeing it from anothers view was just amazing. I've tried to get my kids to read. They are not into it like am, but don't shy away from it. The wife is the same. I feel sorry for them that they miss out of the thrills and excitement that is hidden between the covers of so many books.
READ, READ, READ!!!
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"Lord of the flies"
can't believe i left this one out......incredible, life altering book. a must read for anybody and everybody IMO.
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"white gold wielder" :headscratch:
think I read the first 3
Ya that's it. I read them, but thought it was a little to angsty.
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Ya that's it. I read them, but thought it was a little to angsty.
didn't like em.
the Shannara series much better :rock
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Dune
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didn't like em.
the Shannara series much better :rock
I agree, I like Terry Brooks. I liked pretty much everything David Eddings wrote as well. Robert Jordan started out ok, but turned into a bigtime hack. Pumping out trash as fast as he could.
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"Rifles for Watie" by Harold Keith
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I have $100 I'll throw down on Penguin coming back and admitting his favorite book is actually "The Rainbow Fish."
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"white gold wielder" :headscratch:
think I read the first 3
That would be correct Ink, I own all 6.
+1 for The Hobbit. I remember delivering papers a looong time ago and saw a pile of books in someones trash, found a 1946 version of Hobbit, it's in pretty bad shape, but still alive here somewhere.
The Mouse and the Motorcycle is the first book I remember.
I think I read too much as a kid (and kept all of them) and find them all to be "favorites"
Short list:
Naomi Novik - The Temeraire Series
David Eddings - Belgarath Series (all 20+ of them)
Terry Brooks - Wishsong Series
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Dragonlance Series + (all 50 or so of them)
Robert E Howard & L Sprague de Camp - Conan (plus misc other authors, all 75+ of them)
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I agree, I like Terry Brooks. I liked pretty much everything David Eddings wrote as well. Robert Jordan started out ok, but turned into a bigtime hack. Pumping out trash as fast as he could.
I liked Jordan's Conan books, but only got to the third Wheel of Time before losing interest.
Ya that's it. I read them, but thought it was a little to angsty.
The first one was hard, but the last 2 I found much better. Maybe I was able to relate to his epileptic world by then. :headscratch:
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I agree. I liked pretty much everything David Eddings wrote as well. Robert Jordan started out ok, but turned into a bigtime hack. Pumping out trash as fast as he could.
thats funny, I cant stand Robert Jordan....
have you read the Shannara series by Terry Brooks? if not, they are great, as good or better then LOTR (IMO)
a few of my favorite book series I read(off the top of the head)
Red Nails/all Conan by Robert E Howard (plus everything else that he did)
The Shannara series by Terry Brooks- great books some of the best Fantasy
Magic of xanth-Piers Anthony-so so
spellsinger series-Allen Dean Foster-very good fun series
Incarnations of immortality-Piers Anthony- 7 books all awesome but "on a Pale horse" is the best
Tarzan-Edger Rice Borrows - awesome stories
Dragon riders of Pern- Ann Mccafrey- mediocre at best except "the White Dragon" thats a great book
The Sword of truth series
a few single books that were great
Wolf and Iron-Gorden Dickson-truly awesome book
The talisman-Peter Straub/Stephen King
The Stand
hello America-crazy book-?
Battlefield Earth-L Ron Hubbard
Stranger in a strange land-I believe it was Robert Hienlien :headscratch:
I dont read generally unless I am locked up
drawing a blank on the rest, these are the ones that really stand out.
although I have read some of James Patterson more recently he is good.
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Since I have seen some people say life altering reading I will add mine.
The single most life altering piece of literature I have ever read is "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Tolstoy.
To a lesser extent "The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway.
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That would be correct Ink, I own all 6.
+1 for The Hobbit. I remember delivering papers a looong time ago and saw a pile of books in someones trash, found a 1946 version of Hobbit, it's in pretty bad shape, but still alive here somewhere.
The Mouse and the Motorcycle is the first book I remember.
I think I read too much as a kid (and kept all of them) and find them all to be "favorites"
Short list:
Naomi Novik - The Temeraire Series
David Eddings - Belgarath Series (all 20+ of them)
Terry Brooks - Wishsong Series
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Dragonlance Series + (all 50 or so of them)
Robert E Howard & L Sprague de Camp - Conan (plus misc other authors, all 75+ of them)
Robert E Howard is by far my favorite Author of all time.
The Hour of the Dragon
The Lion banner sways and falls
in the horror haunted gloom;
A scarlet Dragon rustles by,
borne on winds of doom.
In heaps the shining horsemen lie,
where thrusting lances break,
And deep in the haunted mountains
the lost, black gods awake.
Dead hands grope in the shadows,
the stars turn pale with fright,
For this is the Dragon's Hour,
the triumph of Fear and Night.
The Phoenix on the Sword
What do I know of cultured ways,
the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land
and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile,
they fail when the broadsword sing;
Rush in and die dogs-
I was a man before I was a king.
his suicide note
"All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over and the lamps expire"
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Cool Ink, Elfstones of Shannara was one of my favorites growing up. Nobody else grew up on Larry bond and Tom Clancy?
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First book I ever checked out of the grade school library. 2nd Grade. I think i was the only one to check it out the rest of my elementary school days. It's been all downhill ever since. There were others in the series but this one sent me over the edge on WW2 fighter pilots. American Heritage had one called "Airwar over Hitler's Germany' that was a close second, but I found this one first. Some of the old timers will remember the Ballantine Books series on WW1 and 2 also. We could buy those at grade school book fairs. Amazing stuff for a history minded little kid. Clearly they all made a huge impression as it's still my passion all these years later.
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:lol
Dan these were my two favorite books from the third grade on. Checked out of the Memorial Elementary Library in Plano TX
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Cool Ink, Elfstones of Shannara was one of my favorites growing up. Nobody else grew up on Larry bond and Tom Clancy?
great book :aok
although I like the "Wishsong" the best out of that series.....Garret Jax that guy was a bad bellybutton :rock
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thats funny, I cant stand Robert Jordan....
have you read the Shannara series by Terry Brooks? if not, they are great, as good or better then LOTR (IMO)
a few of my favorite book series I read(off the top of the head)
Red Nails/all Conan by Robert E Howard (plus everything else that he did)
The Shannara series by Terry Brooks- great books some of the best Fantasy
Magic of xanth-Piers Anthony-so so
spellsinger series-Allen Dean Foster-very good fun series
Incarnations of immortality-Piers Anthony- 7 books all awesome but "on a Pale horse" is the best
Tarzan-Edger Rice Borrows - awesome stories
Dragon riders of Pern- Ann Mccafrey- mediocre at best except "the White Dragon" thats a great book
The Sword of truth series
a few single books that were great
Wolf and Iron-Gorden Dickson-truly awesome book
The talisman-Peter Straub/Stephen King
The Stand
hello America-crazy book-?
Battlefield Earth-L Ron Hubbard
Stranger in a strange land-I believe it was Robert Hienlien :headscratch:
I dont read generally unless I am locked up
drawing a blank on the rest, these are the ones that really stand out.
although I have read some of James Patterson more recently he is good.
We have very similar tastes. :aok
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I had to sip on this one for a bit.
Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Josef Konrad).
My Grandma gave me a collection of his stories when I was little. I still have it and flip through on occasion.
In fact, it's still some of the only fiction that I enjoy.
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Too many books...
I've read just about every genre and major author, with a lot of serials.
I've always had a fondess for Piers Anthony's "Xanth" series with that sense of humor and wordplay.
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Rand McNallys enclopedia of aircraft, Janes enclopedia of aircraft 1930-1973
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The two books that really shaped my mind as a kid were The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich series and the Dune series... Later in life it was None Dare Call it Conspiracy, 1984, Animal Farm and A Brave New World.
Between them all people often call me crazy for my beliefs... and just as many say, "HOLY *&#@!!!!" after they've called me crazy, and then observe the world from a non-mediacentric point of view for a couple weeks...
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Wow, has the title always been best book you read as a kid? totally read that for last 2 days are first book you read...
In that case, the best book i read was probably either QB VII or Alas Babylon
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This was my first favorite book.
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YYYEEEEAAAHHHH! :aok :aok :aok :aok
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The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings. Never has a series of books affected me so much.
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OK is this before teenager or as a teenager? :)
If it's all before teenager years, some of you folks read some serious stuff in grade school!
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Tom clancys END WAR Tom Clancy's EndWar
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The first book I read that really made an impression was Jack London's "The Call of the Wild" I was eight or nine.
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The first book I read that really made an impression was Jack London's "The Call of the Wild" I was eight or nine.
I was about the same age when I read that one as well. GREAT book. :aok
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Have Spacesuit, Will Travel got me hooked on SF.
Thud Ridge stoked the pilot fire and made me want to read everything I could find on aerial combat.
Cat's Cradle and Player Piano were quite enlightening and caused my teen self to cast a more critical eye on how the world worked.
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OK is this before teenager or as a teenager? :)
If it's all before teenager years, some of you folks read some serious stuff in grade school!
No kidding. A lot of what people have listed I was forced to read in middle or high school. I'm having a hard time figuring out which of them I actually read before I was 13 and which I actually liked. Most of what I was forced to read I didn't like all that much.
Jurassic Park would be high on my list, as someone else mentioned, but I'm pretty sure I was over the age of 13 by the time I read it. I read it before I saw the movie, knowing the movie was coming out soon. Ever since then I decided to watch the movie before reading the book (it was too late for LotR, but I didn't re-read that until after I saw all three movies).
I'm going to go with 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I remember having to look up the word "Maelstrom" in the dictionary and being unsatisfied with the definition.
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Well if we're including teen age years, my list expands although the first two that came to mind were "Treblinka" and "The Murderers Among US" Found them on my uncle's shelf and read them over a weekend. 13 or 14. I'd never heard of the Holocaust. Talk about eye opening. I had no idea up to that point that people could be so cruel to people.
I'd read a lot about WW2 but those two really changed my perspective.
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The Lord of the Rings, by far.
Some historical novels were pretty much entertaining too, about Attila, the 150 years war, or 1848.
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As a kid? Around 10 years old my Father got me hooked on science fiction books starting with Larry Niven and moving on to Laumer, Chalker, Frank Herbert, and Heinlen.
My favorite books...
Really a tie between Ringworld by Larry Niven and the Bolo series by Keith Laumer.
Both had me teaching myself physics from my Father's college books in middle school(11-13 years old) in order to actually figure out what was going on... Best education a kid can possibly receive in my opinion. Hook 'em on science fiction then give them an algebra textbook and a physics textbook and let them learn it by themselves.
Best book as an adult? Pick a book written by Terry Pratchett, or any of the Sten series.
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Read a lot of books when I was younger still read all the time.
I would have to go with Great Expectations by Dickens.
Where the red fern grows and Summer of the Monkeys I remember fondly.
Never got into sci-fi until later.
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This was my first favorite book.
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mine to
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I would have to go with Great Expectations by Dickens.
Really?
They forced us to read that book when I was in 8th grade. Painfully boring, in my opinion. Same goes for The Great Gatsby... bleh
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The Iliad.
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Really?
They forced us to read that book when I was in 8th grade. Painfully boring, in my opinion. Same goes for The Great Gatsby... bleh
I enjoyed 'The Great Gatsby' when reading it. I disliked analyzing it during the class.
Actually, I generally disliked analyzing most things I read, all the way through earning my B.A. in English. lol
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Pre teenager?
Robinson Crusoe.
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When the legends die by Hal Borland
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When the Legends die by Hal Borland.
All Louis Lamour esp. the Sackett titles
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This was my first favorite book.
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+1
Plus blueberries for sal
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The Guns of Navarone and Force 10 From Navarone. Ice Station Zebra.
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The Guns of Navarone and Force 10 From Navarone. Ice Station Zebra.
Books not movies ya dingleberry. :D
I remember as a kid Ice Station Zebra was on TV on a school night, I had to be 10 or 11 so it would have been about 1969 or 1970. It started at 8:00 PM, my bedtime was 9:00. I knew if I drew any attention to myself my father would notice it was past my bed time. About 8:40 I got quiet as a mouse and curled up in the chair to make myself as invisible as possible. My Dad looked over about 9:30 and said John don't you know you're supposed to be bed. I said yes sir, but this movie is so cool I want to see what happens. He laughed and let me stay up until 10:00 when the movie ended. Then he walked me to my bed room and asked if I liked it. I said yes sir it was great, thanks for letting me stay up. He said you're welcome now don't ever pull that stunt again. :lol
I lost him last August he was 84. Everytime I see the title Ice Station Zebra I remember that night. :aok
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I never saw the movie. I read those books in high school since they made us read something and all the other choices sucked.
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I never saw the movie. I read those books in high school since they made us read something and all the other choices sucked.
Good choices. :lol
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Read a few that I really enjoyed.
Where the Red Fern Grows...yes I cried as a boy and I still cry as a man when I read it.
War and Peace....my dad dared me to read it in less than 6 months when I was 13; the trick to the dare was I had to read it when he was reading Shogun by James Clavell; I remember it being somewhere around 3.5 months from cover to cover.
The Art of War...I still have that hard back copy somewhere. I need to dig it out again.
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Lonesome Dove is also a great read. Great movie as well :D