04-29-2013, 02:59 AM | #61 |
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So to coin Flip Wilson's phrase, "The devil made you do it"?
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04-29-2013, 03:48 AM | #63 |
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Oh geez, I'd probably have to go all the way back to something like Sideways Stories from Wayside School and the Danny Dunn series.
What made me love the art of writing and storytelling was being exposed to An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge in high school. It blew my mind. Last edited by xg4bx; 04-29-2013 at 03:52 AM. |
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04-29-2013, 05:52 AM | #66 |
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Guilty. Celebrated bday 42 last Dec. Yep a child of the 70's. Things certainly have changed since then. I'm just barely older than PG.
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04-29-2013, 08:32 AM | #67 |
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I'm in my early twenties, so I guess that makes me an embryo?
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Books were always around and I could read by the time I was four. But the light went on with E.B. White (Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan). That's when I realized, in first or second grade, that magic was possible.
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05-11-2013, 01:55 PM | #70 |
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Robert Graves, author of The White Goddess, postulated that the "secret wisdom of the Druids" was the knowledge of reading and writing.
On the other hand, as an anthropologist, Graves was a great poet. |
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I guess it must have been White Fangs by Jack London, after that I decided that books, at least some books were for me
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05-12-2013, 02:08 AM | #73 |
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The first book which I remember having a huge impact on me, and how I viewed the world, was "The Silver Sword" by Ian Serraillier. I think I may have been 8 or 9 when I read it. There had been many books before that, but that was *the* one.
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It's a toss up between Cinderella and the Br'er Rabbit books (Enid Blyton).
Funnily enough, in grade school I devoured literary fare (Little Women, Shakespeare, etc) and encyclopedias (favorite subject matter being dinosaurs, Greek and Roman mythology, and the solar system/stars/universe). If I was bored enough, I'd even read the dictionary. Nowadays, my reading material appears to be limited to trashy romance novels. |
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lol, yeah I guess you're right. I did not remember that detail and I just went with logic, dogs having more than one fang ...
But White Fang is the title indeed. I read it a long time ago though. |
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