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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Here are two non-fiction that mattered a lot to me in my elementary school years.
Find the Constellations--H.A. Rey (yes, the Curious George dude). In Search of a Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth. I'm not sure of the author, but Google thinks it's Eleanor Clymer.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
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On May 6, 2015, Theodore Lawton wrote: Theodore, I wasn't on that 1976 recording. But I spent four grueling years touring with Peter, playing the songs from that album all over the world (1980 thru '81, and 2005 thru '06). Keyboards on Do You Feel Like We Do, Lines On My Face, Baby I Love Your Way, Something's Happening, I Wanna Go To The Sun, etc. And guitar on Show Me The Way, Doobie Wah, Jumpin' Jack Flash, I'll Give You Money, etc. Wild times! |
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18012 Posts |
The Boxcar Children ... When I was young there was only one book in the series...
THE MAN THE SKEPTICS REFUSE TO TEST FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS.. The Worlds Foremost Authority on Houdini's Life after Death.....
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Levi Bennett Inner circle 1778 Posts |
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On May 6, 2015, arthur stead wrote: I can only imagine! When I found out you played with Peter Frampton, one of my first thoughts was: when Peter came down to breakfast with a sherman in his hand, was Arthur in the kitchen making waffles?
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Levi Bennett Inner circle 1778 Posts |
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On May 7, 2015, Slim King wrote: Man, I forgot about those! I liked them too!
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Levi Bennett Inner circle 1778 Posts |
Another one that I loved was Andy Buckram's Tin Men. It's about a boy who makes some robots. A little bit like Henry Reed with humor and adventure.
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
The Hardy Boys.
Most of you remember Magic Santa. He is also a huge Hardy Boys fan. But, you know, one has to say it: the Bible. My father is a Baptist preacher, so irregardless (one of my favorite non words; I'm also a Barney Miller fan) of what I believe or do not believe, the Bible was the first and most important book. "Touched me as a child" means the Bible, whether I liked it or not. |
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Levi Bennett Inner circle 1778 Posts |
One of my old chef's and I were both Hardy Boys fans. We both used to talk about Hunting For Hidden Gold being one of our favorites. Great books!
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gypsyfish Veteran user 383 Posts |
The Tarzan books. Later, the Doc Savage books.
And a lot of comics. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On May 7, 2015, gypsyfish wrote: As a teen, I loved adventure and fantasy. Burroughs's Tarzan books and his John Carter of Mars series brought me great pleasure for a year or so. Great fun.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
Hardy Boys, Tarzan books ... you guys are re-igniting my memory cells!
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TonyB2009 Inner circle 5006 Posts |
Two books; The Man who was Magic by Paul Gallico and The Walking Stones by Mollie Hunter.
The first is the story of Adam the Simple, a man with real magic powers who arrives in a city of conjurers and wreaks havoc. The second is the story of an old man with the second sight. The first gave me the model of a magician I still try to emulate to this day. The second just opened my mind. Two great books. Well worth reading at any age.
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Michael Rubinstein V.I.P. 4665 Posts |
My Friend the Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
Anything written by Ray Bradbury, including The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked this way Comes, and The Illustrated Man
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Dougini Inner circle The Beautiful State Of Maine 7130 Posts |
A Wrinkle in Time. A science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1963. The story revolves around a young girl whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project. They are are visited by their new eccentric neighbor, Mrs Whatsit. In the course of conversation, Mrs Whatsit casually mentions, "...there is such a thing as a Tesseract!", which causes Mrs. Murry to almost faint.
That story still gives me the chills! Doug |
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
A Soul's Journey by Peter Richelieu
The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (I was reading those at the same time period as I was reading Ray Bradbury's books). |
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tomsk192 Inner circle 3894 Posts |
Books that touched me as a child? Well I once got a leathering with a copy of The English Hymnal for smoking in the vestry. And on another occasion a bookcase fell on my head. The main source of injury was as a result of all six volumes of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in folio edition, landing on my occiput. Ever since then, I could never remember my eight times table.
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Dougini Inner circle The Beautiful State Of Maine 7130 Posts |
Haha! ROFL! Tomsk, sounds more like The Decline and Fall of all six volumes of Gibbon's! Hee hee heee! 8 x 8 = 64.
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NicholasD Inner circle 1458 Posts |
Fun With Dick and Jane.
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foolsnobody Special user Buffalo, NY 843 Posts |
Years before Crockett Johnson wrote The Purple Crayon, which was after my time, he did a series of comic strips about a little boy named Barnaby and his fairy godfather Mister O'Malley. Mister O'Malley was a rotund little fellow with wings and a fedora hat who smoked cigars. Barnaby could see him but his parents couldn't, and he and his fairy godfather would get into all kinds of mischief and adventures at Mister O'Malley's instigation, but when Barnaby would try to tell his parents honestly what happened they credited it to an overactive imagination. Mister O'Malley also had a habit of raiding the parents' refrigerator. A wonderful series from the 1940s and 50s.
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