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Date Posted: 05:49:33 03/06/03 Thu
Author: Khronos
Author Host/IP: ip-66-80-65-31.dsl.sea.megapath.net / 66.80.65.31
Subject: Did you ever read Edgar Rice Buroughs' stuff?
In reply to: DammitBoy! 's message, "Re: that explains alot" on 04:40:12 03/06/03 Thu

His "Martian" books were awesome ("John Carter: Warlord of Mars"). I started reading those when I was about eleven, around the same time I really got into Tolkien. Buroughs was the creator of Tarzan, but it was his sci-fi that I thought was his best. It was a pivotal moment when John Carter discovers himself on the Martian surface, his "earthly" muscles as great a hinderance to him as they would later become his salvation.

I still love those "Little House" books. They should never be confused with the bastardized crap that became such the rage on TV. The books are not only great and engaging story telling (especially for the younger reader), but they exist as an accurate account of pioneer America. I always had been interested in history, and Wilder's work just deepened that desire in me. My boys love them (well the three year old couldn't care less, he generally gets out of bed to play with his Brio train set, but if you ask him some specific questions regarding what we've been reading it's surprising how much of it has sunk in). The "Chronicles of Narnia" are next on the list. I'll work in "The Hobbit" somewhere along the line too.

So many books, so little time!

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