majestic 2,297 Posted Friday at 05:04 PM Share Posted Friday at 05:04 PM This was easily my favorite book as a kid: 600 pages full of diagrams and explanations of virtually everything, or - as the cover states: From ballpoint pens to nuclear fission. 3 Quote We all have signed the pacts, we knew so well nothing was left We are being born at the sound of ends, and yes we still believe in beauty It used to be the pride of Man, now a flame put out by the cold in his hand Link to post Share on other sites
Guard Dog 9,307 Posted Friday at 05:46 PM Share Posted Friday at 05:46 PM 41 minutes ago, majestic said: This was easily my favorite book as a kid: 600 pages full of diagrams and explanations of virtually everything, or - as the cover states: From ballpoint pens to nuclear fission. That is very cool! 1 Quote Get off my lawn! Link to post Share on other sites
ShadySands 7,686 Posted Friday at 07:41 PM Share Posted Friday at 07:41 PM (edited) My first favorite book was The Poky Little Puppy but that's also like the very first book I remember. I was probably around 2 or 3. Edited Friday at 07:41 PM by ShadySands Quote Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to post Share on other sites
InsaneCommander 2,823 Posted Friday at 08:11 PM Share Posted Friday at 08:11 PM Mine were Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and its sequel, The Mysterious Island. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Amentep 5,860 Posted Friday at 09:55 PM Author Share Posted Friday at 09:55 PM I remember reading a lot of the Golden Books (like The Little Red Hen) as a really young tyke. Dinosaur books and Richard Scarry and Dr. Seuss followed. When I got a little older I read The Three Investigators (aka Alfred Hitch**** and the Three Investigators) and somewhere in there was Dahlov Ipcar's The Warlock of Night and a bunch of other books I barely remember at this point. I remember reading The Hobbit when I was ten or so because both my older brothers had. Somewhere around 12 or 13 I tried to read Dune and The Lord of the Rings and had begun reading Doc Savage, the Avenger, the Shadow, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard/L Sprague De Camp's Conan and Piers Anthony's Xanth books. Maybe that was when I tried to read my brother's Thomas Covenant books too. And picked up Robert Vardeman's Centopah Road which I followed for awhile. Oh and two of the Shannara Books were somewhere in my early teens. But I read a lot of comic books. 60s Doom Patrols, Challengers of the Unknown, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, etc, 60s and 70s horror titles like House of Mystery, Eerie, House of Secrets, Red Circle Sorcery, or Creepy; Weird Western Tales (Jonah Hex and Scalphunter), GI Combat (Haunted Tank), Weird War Tales (Creature Commandoes), Out Army at War (Unknown Soldier), Archie, Harvey, etc. My uncles donated their comics to us and so there wasn't a time that I remember that there weren't comics to read or re-read growing up. EDIT: OOOOH how could I forget Terran Trade Authority #3 Spacewreck: Ghostships and Derelicts of Space!!!! I checked that out of the library dozens of times! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hurlshot 8,165 Posted Friday at 11:58 PM Share Posted Friday at 11:58 PM I remember in 7th grade, my parents had the bright idea to send me to a private Christian school, since I wasn't doing well in public. It was not a good fit, and I got sent to he library as a punishment regularly. This was a pretty terrible library for a 7th grader, since it was all preachy stuff. The one decent author I found was Stephen R. Lawhead. He had a scifi series about living on Mars and I enjoyed it. Then I read some fantasy books he wrote. I'd say that led me to a lot of the older fantasy and scifi stuff I eventually read. I don't really remember it being heavy on the Christian themes, at least not any more than CS Lewis. So that helped. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guard Dog 9,307 Posted Saturday at 03:59 PM Share Posted Saturday at 03:59 PM Currently reading Quote Get off my lawn! Link to post Share on other sites
ShadySands 7,686 Posted Saturday at 08:20 PM Share Posted Saturday at 08:20 PM 1 Quote Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to post Share on other sites
Guard Dog 9,307 Posted yesterday at 08:46 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:46 AM Finished the last one tonight. Started this one: It's making me thirsty for a Black and Tan. Quote Get off my lawn! Link to post Share on other sites
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