Okiepan Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 What's your Favorite childhood book ? where the wild things are ? Harold and his purple crayon ? Mad Magazine ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 The Black Stallion by Walter Farley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 (edited) Honestly, I can't remember back that far. Don't recall having my Mom read to me. Never got into comic books. I guess the first I know of were paper back books starting with this series.... Edited January 13 by Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Pic size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Loved Jack London Mom and one of my aunts went in on several of his works and would give me one for my birthday and one for Christmas over several years. I would stay up all night to finish a chapter/book. Gave them to my brother and lost track of where they went from there. Obviously "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" but also "The Star Rover" and "The Scarlet Plague" were all favorites Regards Gateway Kid 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein. My older cousin loaned me his copy when I was 7 years old and I've been a Sci-Fi fan ever since. The movie was a sucky adaptation of the novel. As usual. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 "Paddle to the Sea" through maybe 4th grade The I found the Edgar Rice Burrows "Princess of Mars" series and got hooked on science fiction. Devoured Azimov, Heinlein, Anderson, Norton, et al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1 hour ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: Honestly, I can't remember back that far. Don't recall having my Mom read to me. Never got into comic books. I guess the first I know of were paper back books starting with this series.... I managed to collect all but one or two Doc Savage books in paperback but I don't remember which one was the first I read. My first favorites weren't books but comic strips: Out Our Way, Lil Abner, Our Boarding House, Blackhawk, and some others. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1 hour ago, J-BAR #18287 said: Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein. My older cousin loaned me his copy when I was 7 years old and I've been a Sci-Fi fan ever since. The movie was a sucky adaptation of the novel. As usual. I was (and still am) a Heinlein fan: Farnham's Freehold is my favorite and I still read it every couple of years. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 20 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: I was (and still am) a Heinlein fan: Farnham's Freehold is my favorite and I still read it every couple of years. They hold up well as time passes, still fun to read even today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 I read so much as a kid I actually cannot pick my one favorite book. If I had to pick just one, the book or books that I loved most were the several books Samual Clemons wrote about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. I read LOTS of science fiction. Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov were my favorite author in that genre. I read books about mountain men, in particular Kit Carson. I read his autobiography. I read books about WW2 and for a long time my dream job was to be a tail gunner. I loved Mad Magazine too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 A Princess of Mars and the ensuing Barsoom books. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 This thread drew up a memory. We were living in a compound. 6 acres - most of it swamp - and three trailers. We lived in one. Her brother and his family lived in the second one. And her parents lived in the third one. And we had been out there for 4 or 5 years, and it had long been obvious to me that I was paying more than a third, but nothing was in my name. So I decided we would write that off as a bad decision, and go find someplace else to live. And I went house hunting. About the time we were moving out of the trailer to the house we just bought, her sister and her two kids showed up. Her husband had traded her in on a younger model and had kicked the three of them out. So she come back home to Mom and Dad, and wasn't it nice there was a convenient empty trailer, so they moved in there. A year or so later we are out there visiting her folks, and on the table in the Florida room I see a copy of The Hardy Boys The Mystery of Devil's Paw. I opened it up and look at the flyleaf, then take it over and start to toss it in the truck. My niece, who was about 12 at a time, wanted to know what I was doing with her book. I told her it wasn't her book, it was my book. She insisted it was her book. It was her most favorite book. So I open it to the flyleaf where it says Merry Christmas Ronnie 1965 Love Mom and Daddy And I showed her that and I repeated that it was my book. Apparently it had got left behind when we moved out. And she looked so depressed that I gave it to her. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 4 hours ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: Honestly, I can't remember back that far. Don't recall having my Mom read to me. Never got into comic books. I guess the first I know of were paper back books starting with this series.... ill say dittos to that whole statement till the books , my first real recollection of reading something i chose over something that was required was when my grandmother got me hooked on the james bond series , i read them all , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creeker, SASS #43022 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 (edited) 5 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said: Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein. My older cousin loaned me his copy when I was 7 years old and I've been a Sci-Fi fan ever since. The movie was a sucky adaptation of the novel. As usual. Heinlein is a distant (way distant) cousin - actually got me in trouble as one of my teachers was pronouncing his name like it is spelled, HineLine; when the actual pronounciation is HangLine and I felt it necessary to correct them. I grew up a voracious reader, thanks to my Dad - lights out was always a hour or two after bedtime because I would reading something and begging "just let me finish this chapter". And even as a preteen - Dad was always tossing his books at me when he finished them; so I grew up with an eclectic mix of Mark Twain and Jack London intermixed with Donald E Westlake, Raymond Chandler and Shakespeare. The Hardy Boys and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Just wish I could knuckle down and finish the three novels I have half written myself. Edited January 13 by Creeker, SASS #43022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Lots of Zane Grey, Louis Lamour but the one that sticks out in my mind is Moby Dick. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Rich Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 #4 and Cracked magazine. kR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 5 hours ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said: Heinlein is a distant (way distant) cousin - actually got me in trouble as one of my teachers was pronouncing his name like it is spelled, HineLine; when the actual pronounciation is HangLine and I felt it necessary to correct them. I grew up a voracious reader, thanks to my Dad - lights out was always a hour or two after bedtime because I would reading something and begging "just let me finish this chapter". And even as a preteen - Dad was always tossing his books at me when he finished them; so I grew up with an eclectic mix of Mark Twain and Jack London intermixed with Donald E Westlake, Raymond Chandler and Shakespeare. The Hardy Boys and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Just wish I could knuckle down and finish the three novels I have half written myself. Stay with it. I have written seven books (not counting instruction manuals for two aerospace companies and a few other tomes) and actually had two of them published. Those two are my pride and joy books. Don't die with "I wish I had......" on your lips. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Starship Troopers. The book, not the movies. They were crap. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Young kid - Charlottes Web Pre -Teen - Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer, Playboy (when I could find them). Teen - Slaughterhouse 5, Anything about the Manson murders, some Heinlein, lots of Civil War/WWI/WWII/Korea history, Sci-Fi. As a teen and young adult, I was a voracious reader, a ton of Sci-Fi, war history and the like. I didn't really just stop reading, it just gradually ebbed away...I guess life just got in the way. Tried to start back reading a few years ago but many books are printed with small print that is a struggle to read with even glasses on. The last books that I read was Killing Kennedy and Killing the Rising Sun after buying them at a garage sale for $1 each. I enjoyed them and have been looking for the rest of the "Killing" series at garage sales and thrift stores for a fair price but haven't found them. I don't like reading books online or listening to them on "tape". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 48 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said: The last books that I read was Killing Kennedy and Killing the Rising Sun after buying them at a garage sale for $1 each. I enjoyed them and have been looking for the rest of the "Killing" series at garage sales and thrift stores for a fair price but haven't found them. I don't like reading books online or listening to them on "tape". Killing Crazy Horse was great!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracos Kid Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Lorna Doone, by R.D. Blackmore.......My daughter found a 1st Edition when she was in Nova Scotia and now it is mine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Wild Animals I Have Known, by Ernest Thompson Seton. Here is Your War, by Ernie Pyle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 23 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: Killing Crazy Horse was great!! That's one of the ones on my list! Of, course...all of them that I haven't read are on my list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 14 hours ago, Okiepan said: What's your Favorite childhood book ? where the wild things are ? Harold and his purple crayon ? Mad Magazine ? Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit and The Road Past Mandalay. I also read a lot of Heinlein, Niven, Pournelle and others of that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stump Water Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 L'Amour. Everything I could get my hands on about WWII. Especially air & naval battles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 I read the entire Landmark Books series. Always loved history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Ole Yeller, Savage Sam....anything by Fred Gipson or Jack London. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blarney Kid Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Mine were Burroughs, Heinlein, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, Louis L'Amour,westerns by multiple authors, Encyclopedia Brown, and other teen mysteries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 8 hours ago, The Blarney Kid said: Nancy Drew As a kid, I would not read Nancy Drew, because those were girls' books. As an adult I started reading them, and they're not bad stories. Especially if you can find the unrevised ones - the ones written before the 50s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe was what started me watching the sky....along about 1953 it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Anything by either Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Robert Louis Stevenson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Small Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 As a little one, Cowboy Small.....see alias Then it would be old yeller and savage sam and where the red fern grows. After that would be Louis l'amour, Robert Roark Old Man and the Boy books and Mad Magazine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I was 12 and reading Frank Herbert's Dune when I heard that Elvis died. I had been reading Andre Norton, Larry Niven, Edgar R Boroughs and othe sci-fi since about eight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I was 14 and at the Tolmie Peak ranger station in Mt. Rainier Nat'l Park with my Scout troop when we heard Marilyn Monroe had died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine 20515 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 My Dad introduced me to Pogo early on as well as other comics of the time. MS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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