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Date Posted: 04:40:12 03/06/03 Thu
Author: DammitBoy!
Author Host/IP: cache-dp01.proxy.aol.com / 205.188.209.101
Subject: Re: that explains alot
In reply to: Khronos 's message, "I plan on rwading them to my kids after we finish the "Little House " books..." on 18:55:14 03/05/03 Wed

So that's how you started on the road to Disney college!

I think the book that did that for me was 'The Zero Stone', by Andre Norton.

It wasn't a series, so I started searching for other scifi that would give me the same feeling as you describe.

At the same time, I would become intensely interested in a historical timeframe, and would devour anything I could read on the subject.

I went through phases with the Civil War, medieval times, WWI, then WWII. I read 'Mein Kampf' and 'the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by the time I was thirteen.

My reading habits were quite arbitrary though, at the same time I was amassing a complete set of the Hardy Boys mysteries. Which were as silly as they were poorly written.

Scifi is what has stuck with me over the years however. I still read at least one or two books a week, and they are usually scifi or fantasy related.

I hope my kids get the reading bug, I can't imagine how much they will miss out on if they don't!

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