10-19-2013, 01:02 PM | #16 |
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10-19-2013, 03:26 PM | #17 | |
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10-19-2013, 03:53 PM | #18 |
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Terrance Dicks, I couldn't get enough of his Doctor Who books.
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On the Sacketts, and dusters in general. I work in an aboriginal community 5 months a year. Last year I sold one of my spare ereaders to a guy who had all the Louis L'amour books in paper and ebook, but didn't like carrying them around from job to job or reading them on his laptop. People over 40 read a lot in the north. Many of them are reading dusters. I find it a bit odd, that a fairly belligerent community as to aboriginal rights are reading books that refer to them as Indians. Mostly they get right in the tourists faces if they call them Indians. Not saying it is wrong just a tad peculiar. Helen |
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10-19-2013, 04:54 PM | #20 |
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Franklin W. Dixon and The Hardy Boys series.
In my Teen years it was Ian Fleming and James Bond. |
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10-19-2013, 05:12 PM | #21 |
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The 'Adventure' series of books by Willard Price were the first books that I remember actively seeking out and devouring. I loved them.
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10-19-2013, 07:50 PM | #22 |
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The big influences in my youngest reading were Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, and the various writers of the Perry Rhodan series (those translated into English in the 1960's). Honorable mention has to go to Ace Books, the most available SF publisher of that age to me.
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10-19-2013, 09:12 PM | #23 |
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Great stuff so far! Already some familiar names, as we as some I'm not so familiar with (perfect!). I appreciate reading the stories so far, and I'm looking forward to more...
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10-19-2013, 10:04 PM | #24 |
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Lewis Carroll, and later Asimov - LeGuin - Clarke - McCaffrey - Tolkien - Lewis - L'Engle - Shelley, set me up for a life of loving speculative fiction.
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10-19-2013, 10:47 PM | #25 |
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I read a lot of nancy drew and hardy boys as a kid, but my favorite has been Stephen King since I was like 7....is that weird lol
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10-20-2013, 04:37 AM | #26 |
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I read voraciously from a very early age, so there are many authors to choose from. However, the ones who really stands out are Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens and the many authors, translators, and scholars behind One Thousand and One Nights.
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10-20-2013, 08:17 AM | #27 |
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Conan Doyle for his Shelock Holmes (for fun) and Thomas Hardy (for school.) I read Hardy's The Return of the Native in HS for a class and I just loved it all. I went on to read many of his other novels on my own later. It was like I lived on a heath at times. Aside from A Tale of Two Cities I never got into Dickens.
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10-20-2013, 08:43 AM | #28 |
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Simak and Asimov are the two authors I can remember noticing when I was young, and in particular, Simak's Way Station and a collection of Asimov's shorter fiction that included "Sally"
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10-20-2013, 01:18 PM | #29 |
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10-20-2013, 11:37 PM | #30 |
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Stephen King, Robert Lynn Asprin.
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