Thread: Who if anyone encouraged you to read when you were a kid?
View Single Post
Old 07-27-2010, 04:06 AM   #29
banjobama
Busy Read'n
banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.banjobama ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
banjobama's Avatar
 
Posts: 980
Karma: 5039283
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Auburn, WA
Device: Pocketbook Touch Lux 5
Quote:
Originally Posted by TGS View Post
The only book I remember being in the house when I was a kid was a Bugs Bunny annual. Neither of my parents read anything they didn't have to, but when I was 15 a teacher introduced me to, amongst many other things, (some of them not entirely legal), Herman Hesse, Tolkien and Knut Hamsun. I shall be for ever grateful to Mr Gregson, wherever he is, (he decided teaching wasn't for him and was last heard of heading for Morocco to read John Fowles' The Magus.
I had an influential English teacher at about the same age. Here's to you, Mr. Strong.
banjobama is offline   Reply With Quote