Now that everybody is in bed...
Literature was a big part of my life growing up, I was fortunate, I know that now, but it was normal to me back then.
Lets start with the first... The little engine that could... Forget about the moral of the story... Trains duh...
For my birthday, my mom got me one of those book of the month subscriptions in elementary school. So that list includes:
Treasure Island
James and the Giant Peach
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
NatGeo put out a book called Cowboys, I would reread that all the time.
Cher on the cover of Time magazine... Wait, that wasn't a book but a piece of literature that affected me
Junior high:
Wrinkle in Time
Big Red, This book I loved and in fact later in life I found a signed copy which later was lost, disappeared, but most likely stolen.
Mr. Thomas would read parts of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Easy Rider magazine, for the motorcycle articles... I had a minibike chopper with a Briggs&Stratton 5hp motor with a centrifugal clutch...
I think high school things started to take off. I was fortunate again, in that you got to choose your english teacher by the books you studied, each teacher would teach a different book each semester.
Romeo & Juliet
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Illustrated Man (this book got me hooked into Sci-Fi literature)
Free reading time (remember that?)
S.E. Hinton series... Rumble fish etc. (shoutout to ponyboy and to chocolate cake for breakfast)
The Quartzite trip. I think the most underrated book ever. (Screenplay rights anyone)
The Warriors
College years:
While not a lot of time for personal reading there are some significant ones;
Orson Scott Card was a master in portraying humanity and future technology in the Ender Game series.
Hearts of Darkness
So, also being at this time is when I started saltwater aquariums;
This is a great thread, it helped me trace back through my past through literature to where it all went wrong...
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Literature was a big part of my life growing up, I was fortunate, I know that now, but it was normal to me back then.
Lets start with the first... The little engine that could... Forget about the moral of the story... Trains duh...
For my birthday, my mom got me one of those book of the month subscriptions in elementary school. So that list includes:
Treasure Island
James and the Giant Peach
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
NatGeo put out a book called Cowboys, I would reread that all the time.
Cher on the cover of Time magazine... Wait, that wasn't a book but a piece of literature that affected me
Junior high:
Wrinkle in Time
Big Red, This book I loved and in fact later in life I found a signed copy which later was lost, disappeared, but most likely stolen.
Mr. Thomas would read parts of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Easy Rider magazine, for the motorcycle articles... I had a minibike chopper with a Briggs&Stratton 5hp motor with a centrifugal clutch...
I think high school things started to take off. I was fortunate again, in that you got to choose your english teacher by the books you studied, each teacher would teach a different book each semester.
Romeo & Juliet
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Illustrated Man (this book got me hooked into Sci-Fi literature)
Free reading time (remember that?)
S.E. Hinton series... Rumble fish etc. (shoutout to ponyboy and to chocolate cake for breakfast)
The Quartzite trip. I think the most underrated book ever. (Screenplay rights anyone)
The Warriors
College years:
While not a lot of time for personal reading there are some significant ones;
Orson Scott Card was a master in portraying humanity and future technology in the Ender Game series.
Hearts of Darkness
So, also being at this time is when I started saltwater aquariums;
The Marine Aquarium Reference: Systems and Invertebrates
Dr. Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes
Unfortunately, reading seems a thing of the past. While I frown upon E-books, because you just can't read a few pages at night until your eyes are tired, unless you risk dropping your laptop or Ipad on the floor. You can download some great classics to read on an airplane or beach.This is a great thread, it helped me trace back through my past through literature to where it all went wrong...
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