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Date Posted: 18:55:14 03/05/03 Wed
Author: Khronos
Author Host/IP: pcp03068144pcs.mtsano01.ga.comcast.net / 68.47.122.203
Subject: I plan on rwading them to my kids after we finish the "Little House " books...
In reply to: DammitBoy! 's message, "Re: read them when I was 8" on 14:38:17 03/05/03 Wed

For me it was the "Little House" books that opened up the adventure of reading. I had been reading for years, but I suppose I was eight or nine one summer when reading that I experienced the Zen quality of "connectedness". I think it helped that I was reading a series of books interconnected into a single larger story arc. Each book lead to the next and that summer I eagerly devoured LIW's work. I stayed indoors and read for hours at a time. I'd stay up late reading, and get up early. After that summer I was never the same. I started reading other works yearning for that feeling of losing myself into someone else's words. I was reading all kinds of stuff. I remember adults being somewhat put off with me at what I was reading and my obvious level of comprehension. I was cracking on their reading material as insipid fluff.

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Replies:

Re: that explains alot -- DammitBoy!, 04:40:12 03/06/03 Thu
- Did you ever read Edgar Rice Buroughs' stuff? -- Khronos, 05:49:33 03/06/03 Thu
  - Re: Edgar Rice Buroughs -- DammitBoy!, 07:00:01 03/06/03 Thu
    - Yeah... -- Khronos, 07:44:05 03/06/03 Thu
      - Re: Asimov... -- DammitBoy!, 07:55:27 03/06/03 Thu
        Re: Asimov (the prolific bastard!)... -- Khronos, 08:38:37 03/06/03 Thu
        Re: the sheer number of people....... -- DammitBoy!, 10:15:17 03/06/03 Thu
        Re: It won't be long before we are all dining on various strains of yeast -- Hagbard, 18:02:55 03/06/03 Thu
- Re: Hardy Boys mysteries -- Hagbard, 17:56:47 03/06/03 Thu

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