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Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, April 23, 2009, 06:49:26 AM

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April 23, 2009, 06:49:26 AM Last Edit: April 24, 2009, 12:38:12 AM by Nigel
... embarrassing or not. I will likely edit this post as I remember books I'd forgotten.

Formative books I read as a young girl between the ages of 6-12:

Watership Down
The Book of the Dun Cow
Stranger in a Strange Land
I will Fear No Evil
Duncton Wood
Asimov (issue unknown)
The White Dragon
Clan of the Cave Bear
Flowers for Algernon
The Earthsea Trilogy
The Jungle Book
Little Women
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
The Tripod Trilogy

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Richter

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April 23, 2009, 02:57:34 PM
Quote from: Pope Fred St. Pete St. Fred on April 23, 2009, 06:49:26 AM
... embarrassing or not. I will likely edit this post as I remember books I'd forgotten.

Formative books I read as a young girl:

Watership Down
The Book of the Dun Cow
Stranger in a Strange Land
I will Fear No Evil
The Book of Silence
Asimov issue unknown
The White Dragon
Clan of the Cave Bear
Flowers for Algernon

Nothing embarassing about that list.
Anne McCaffrey?  It's been years since I read the the Dragonriders or Harper Hall trilogies.  Very enjoyable though.
"Alergnon", and most Heinlen are always good ones too!

Quote from: Eater of Clowns on May 22, 2015, 03:00:53 AM
Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

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AFK

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April 23, 2009, 03:01:03 PM
When I was a kiddo I was a huge fan of the series, "Alfred Hitchcock & The Three Investigators"  Essentially it was Nancy Drew for boys. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

LMNO

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April 23, 2009, 03:03:28 PM Last Edit: April 23, 2009, 03:05:37 PM by LMNO
Encyclopedia Brown (the series)
A House with a Clock in It's Walls
Aha!
Philosophy in the Bedroom (stolen from Dad's bookshelf)
The Earthsea Trilogy
Everybody Knows What a Dragon Looks Like
Where the Sidewalk Ends
The Three Investigators (series)
Great Glass Elevator
A Cricket in Times Square
James and the Giant Peach

Richter

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April 23, 2009, 03:12:37 PM
Loads of Horror / Mystery / Digest magazine back issues.
Nate the Great  (chidlren's detective series)
Dragonriders of Pern
Arthur C. Clarke (most of it)
Aliens (novelizations of the graphic novels)
Heinlen (Starship Troopers, Tunnel in the Sky, Between Planets)
Dune
Lovecraft / Derelith / CA Smith
Poe

Quote from: Eater of Clowns on May 22, 2015, 03:00:53 AM
Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

Friendly Neighborhood Mentat

LMNO

#5
April 23, 2009, 03:14:24 PM
Wait... what's the cutoff age here?

Niven, Lovecraft, Analog magazine, The Story of O...

hooplala

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April 23, 2009, 03:16:50 PM
Mine was:

Lord of the Flies
Anthem (I know)
Watership Down
Consider Her Ways
The Stand
Breakfast of Champions
Schrodinger's Cat
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

LMNO

#7
April 23, 2009, 03:23:27 PM
Oh, I almost forgot...

Every Stephen King Book up until "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"; although I was kind of losing interest since "Rose Madder".

AFK

#8
April 23, 2009, 03:25:56 PM
Superfudge
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

LMNO

#9
April 23, 2009, 03:27:17 PM
MOOMINLAND MIDWINTER.

Richter

#10
April 23, 2009, 03:52:33 PM
Quote from: RWHN on April 23, 2009, 03:25:56 PM
Superfudge

Shit yes.

Also:  "Where the Red Fern Grows"
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on May 22, 2015, 03:00:53 AM
Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

Friendly Neighborhood Mentat

AFK

#11
April 23, 2009, 03:54:32 PM
Suddenly, Middle School is flashing before my eyes. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

hooplala

#12
April 23, 2009, 03:58:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO on April 23, 2009, 03:23:27 PM
Oh, I almost forgot...

Every Stephen King Book up until "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"; although I was kind of losing interest since "Rose Madder".

I lost interest after Insomnia.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Richter

#13
April 23, 2009, 04:05:47 PM
Quote from: Dr Hoopla on April 23, 2009, 03:58:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO on April 23, 2009, 03:23:27 PM
Oh, I almost forgot...

Every Stephen King Book up until "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"; although I was kind of losing interest since "Rose Madder".

I lost interest after Insomnia.

King's stories and characters are great, but I could never get into his writing style. 
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on May 22, 2015, 03:00:53 AM
Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

Friendly Neighborhood Mentat

LMNO

#14
April 23, 2009, 04:08:09 PM
For me, his writing style was the best part.  I see a lot of his conversational style in my own writing.

I started getting bored when he tried to pull out of direct horror/fantasy, but just couldn't get past the Deus ex Machina of some "mystic good" force that saves the day in every single book, even when it wasn't needed.
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