Favorite Books From Your Childhood?
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mstuhr
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Homer Price
Howdy,
I don't remember who wrote them but I could not get enough of the books about a boy named 'Homer Price"
Homer had a peanut shaped head and battled doughnut machines that had run amok.
After that it would be Comic book.
I was also given (They sit just to the left of me now) a hard back set of the James Bond books around 1965. CASINO ROYALE, GOLDFINGER, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, MOONRAKER, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, and THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN. I was 13 and they struck me like they did Jethro Bodine
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Mike
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Howdy,
I don't remember who wrote them but I could not get enough of the books about a boy named 'Homer Price"
Homer had a peanut shaped head and battled doughnut machines that had run amok.
After that it would be Comic book.
I was also given (They sit just to the left of me now) a hard back set of the James Bond books around 1965. CASINO ROYALE, GOLDFINGER, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, MOONRAKER, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, and THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN. I was 13 and they struck me like they did Jethro Bodine
Thanks
Mike
Double naught spy.
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Andre Norton got me started on SciFi in 7th grade, then Robert Heinlein. "Tunnel inn the Sky" started my love of Bowie Knives. Pretty much stuck with Science fiction and military history after that. When I was in my 30's my grandfather started my addiction to Louis Lamour. Now days I don't read as much as I used to but I do stick with David Drake, Clive Cussler, Brian Garfield and David Morrell and S.M. Stirling. I now waste a lot of time on the computer that I used to waste reading.
What sticks in my memory from the '50s is Landmark books. There were dozens of them. I had a lot of them and read and reread them, and went to the library for more. Kipling and Mark Twain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. I read Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence at age 12, but found it heavy going. I still have it on my shelf 50 years later, but have shied away from revisiting it.
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I'd forgotten those. I think I had read all of them at one point -- I couldn't get enough. I remember feeling disappointed that I'd read all of them and would have to wait until they published more. They certain taught me how important it is to have a dream in life to aspire to.
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I kinda had the hots for Snow White.
I enjoyed Goldilocks and the 3 Bears but it scared me- what if the bears chased her? I also imagine how differently it could have turned out if Goldilocks had had access to our forum and had studied up on proper bear guns:
Papa Bear: "Someone's been sitting in my chair."
Mama Bear: "SCREAMMMMMMMM"
BANG - BANG - BANG
.......and Goldilocks lived happily ever after in a nice little house in the woods with no mortgage and an endless supply of jerked bear meat and nice bearskin rugs........
I enjoyed Goldilocks and the 3 Bears but it scared me- what if the bears chased her? I also imagine how differently it could have turned out if Goldilocks had had access to our forum and had studied up on proper bear guns:
Papa Bear: "Someone's been sitting in my chair."
Mama Bear: "SCREAMMMMMMMM"
BANG - BANG - BANG
.......and Goldilocks lived happily ever after in a nice little house in the woods with no mortgage and an endless supply of jerked bear meat and nice bearskin rugs........
Favorite then, favorite now...The Bible 
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I remember the Landmark books, IIRC there was a U.S. series and a World series. I remember one about Alexander the Great, his horse Bucephalus, his friend Black Cleteus. In the U.S. series, I recall one on the Alamo, Custer, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys and the U.S. Marines. Another favorite series was called "Through Golden Windows", a mixture of history, historical fiction, poetry, humor, etc. Another favorite was entitled "They Put Out To Sea", about the various explorers, Magellan, etc. Also back in the 1950s I was bitten by the Civil War bug, I was fortunate to inherit sets of the Douglas Freeman books, Lee's Lieutenant, R. E. Lee plus the 10 volume set Photographic History of the Civil War.
gregintenn
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and Where the Red Fern Grows are two that stand out in my mind. Go back a few more years, and I liked all the Dr. Seuss collection.
7shooter
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Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. I read them slower toward the end because I didn't want them to end.
monet61
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Wow!--- Those were the first three I was thinking of. Strange.
When I was a little younger, it was Hardy boys and anything about knighthood. Oh' and the "Lone Ranger".
In high school it was "Darkness at Noon". I still love that book.
Wow!--- Those were the first three I was thinking of. Strange.
When I was a little younger, it was Hardy boys and anything about knighthood. Oh' and the "Lone Ranger".
In high school it was "Darkness at Noon". I still love that book.
My books are all similar to previous posters...I seemed to go from one interest to the next.
Narnia, Tom Swift, then, because of the Scholastic Books drives, I'd read anything about animals [especially dogs].
Then WWII history, especially books about aircraft, a lot of them by Martin Caidin.
Tolkien. Classics by RL Stephenson, Alexandre Dumas [Count of Monte Christo, Three Musketeers.] Then the science fiction phase, Arthur Clarke, Isaac Asimov [although I tended to despise Asimov's world view as I got older, he did tell a good story!]
I was usually too busy for comic books, but when I did get rained out, I absolutely had to read "Sergeant Rock!" Nothing else, just that one!
Len
Narnia, Tom Swift, then, because of the Scholastic Books drives, I'd read anything about animals [especially dogs].
Then WWII history, especially books about aircraft, a lot of them by Martin Caidin.
Tolkien. Classics by RL Stephenson, Alexandre Dumas [Count of Monte Christo, Three Musketeers.] Then the science fiction phase, Arthur Clarke, Isaac Asimov [although I tended to despise Asimov's world view as I got older, he did tell a good story!]
I was usually too busy for comic books, but when I did get rained out, I absolutely had to read "Sergeant Rock!" Nothing else, just that one!
Len
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I remember especially the books by Joseph W. Altsheler; proabably outdated even then (late 40's). Another author I really enjoyed was ???? Montgomery. He had books about the very early part of WWII. One book, the flyers were ecstatic because their Brewster Buffaloes were being replaced by P40 Warhawks.
I was a voracious reader in my pre-teen days in the late 50's early 60's.
Would read most anything I could get my hands on including text books!
My favorite genre even today is Science Fiction. Loved anything by Verne, Wells, and the Swift books.
One that made a big impression on me in those days was "After Worlds Collide", the sequel to "When Worlds Collide" by Wylie & Balmer. The sequel is a hard book to find these days. Found it much more interesting than the orginal and inspired me to study science & engineering.
Would read most anything I could get my hands on including text books!
My favorite genre even today is Science Fiction. Loved anything by Verne, Wells, and the Swift books.
One that made a big impression on me in those days was "After Worlds Collide", the sequel to "When Worlds Collide" by Wylie & Balmer. The sequel is a hard book to find these days. Found it much more interesting than the orginal and inspired me to study science & engineering.
My earliest memories were comics in the 40's and science fiction in the 50's but my first serious readings were books like "White Fang" by Jack London and "Kings of the Road" by Ken Purdy.
For light reading it was sports car magazines, outdoor hunting types, the New Yorker, Playboy etc
For light reading it was sports car magazines, outdoor hunting types, the New Yorker, Playboy etc
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I have always been a prolific reader...
My favorite no doubt was Robert Heinlein's "Tunnel In the Sky.
I still live by what I learned from that book...
"Watch out for Stobor"...
I also read all of Tom Swift, and when that was done the Hardy Boys.
I read Clarke and Asimov as well.
I also read some comic books, again my favorites were The Atom, The Flash, and The Green Lantern..
I still remember the Green Lantern having to say when he recharged his ring:
In brighest day, In blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evils might
Beware my power
Green Lanterns light.
My favorite no doubt was Robert Heinlein's "Tunnel In the Sky.
I still live by what I learned from that book...
"Watch out for Stobor"...
I also read all of Tom Swift, and when that was done the Hardy Boys.
I read Clarke and Asimov as well.
I also read some comic books, again my favorites were The Atom, The Flash, and The Green Lantern..
I still remember the Green Lantern having to say when he recharged his ring:
In brighest day, In blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evils might
Beware my power
Green Lanterns light.
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I read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in the 5th grade and still remember a lot of it.
I've always liked to read. Started with Boys Life, a magazine ordered by my folks. Then into adverture books. Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn. Then when I was 13 a family friend gave me a stack of old Rifleman magazines from the '30's & early 40's. That did it, I was a gun nut from there on. Col. Townsend Whelan, Elmer Keith, and others I can't bring to mind influenced me. I remember the old ads for Model 92 Winchesters being closed out for 18 dollars. This was during WW2 so no way could I afford one. I'm still a reader & read what ever I can lay my hands on.
Me too. Of course they are now politicly incorrect.
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