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Dynasty Maker [3267]
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That one book
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May 13, 2025, 8:07 PM
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We all read and some more than others. Most of us can recall the book that we read that created our love for reading. "To Kill a Mockingbird" written by Harper Lee was that book for me. I read it again recently and realized that I connected with the story because I was around the same age as the kids in the book and like them I lived in the South. I also love Halloween which is a part of the tale. Can you recall the book that created your love of reading?
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May 13, 2025, 8:18 PM
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I loved the Hardy Boy's mystery books. I read them all. Still love to read all types of books today. One of my new favorites is One Second After by William Forstchen.
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May 13, 2025, 8:54 PM
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Not just one.
1. Catcher in the Rye
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The World According to Garp
4. Dune
Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Collected works of Jack London
Lots of Ray Bradbury books.
Not just one. The love of reading just kept building and snowballed.
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May 13, 2025, 9:00 PM
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The Art of War.
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May 13, 2025, 9:02 PM
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Ha
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May 13, 2025, 9:04 PM
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I reread this one often and love it. Sound and the Fury also way up there for me.
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May 13, 2025, 9:05 PM
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Light In August.
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Orange Beast [6554]
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May 13, 2025, 9:14 PM
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As I Lay Dying.
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Dynasty Maker [3207]
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I am 82 years old. I was fascinated with The Box Car Children. I read
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May 13, 2025, 9:12 PM
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all the Boy books but the all time classic for all ages has to be To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Playmaker [362]
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May 13, 2025, 9:17 PM
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The Three Musketeers. Then dove into Hardy Boys.
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A Separate Peace-John Knowles***
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May 13, 2025, 9:46 PM
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May 13, 2025, 9:54 PM
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I’m dating myself here, but for me, it was Nancy Drew. Good question,LW!
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Letterman [191]
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May 13, 2025, 9:59 PM
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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
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May 13, 2025, 10:02 PM
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How young? Peter Rabbit, then grew a little bit to the Hardy Boys and Black Beauty, then Where the Red Fern Grows, Huck Finn, then grew up more and maybe Lord of the Flies, then in HS had to read classics. I thought The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck was great. I thought the Catcher in the Rye sucked and wasn't shocking in any way, speaking of phoney. Then the rest is whatever I chose for me.
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Hornblower series
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May 13, 2025, 10:24 PM
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I’ve been reading Nautical series for the last number of years. The best being Patrick O’brian books which I recommend to Everyone!
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May 13, 2025, 10:53 PM
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Many of The Hardy Boys during the summers of 59, 60, and 61 in between searching Woodruff, Congaree and Airport roads for bottles to turn in for deposit to buy baseball cards. Have six of the books on a shelf in the living room in very good condition with dust covers.
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May 14, 2025, 4:51 AM
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Hardy Boys and Rover Boys in early 60’s
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May 13, 2025, 11:11 PM
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Anything by Rudyard Kipling, Kom, The Jungle Book.. and all of his poetry, If, Gunga Din, Yjr Road to Mandalay!
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May 13, 2025, 11:18 PM
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Helter Skelter. When I was 7. Not joking. I know there were other “kid” books before then but that one shifted me to adult level books from that point on.
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May 13, 2025, 11:42 PM
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Michael Creighton
Dune series
God’s Word
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May 14, 2025, 4:05 AM
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I was probably 11 or 12.
My dad made some reference to the Hound of the Baskervilles.
I said "Huh?"
Next day he came home with "The Complete Sherlock Holmes."
Started a lifelong habit.
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May 14, 2025, 4:32 AM
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My favorite book in the last 30 years is "A Gentleman In Moscow."
And the funniest book I've ever read, though it takes a while to get going, is ""Handling Sin" by Michael Malone.
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May 14, 2025, 4:41 AM
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The Outsiders. Stay gold, Ponyboy. I remember it being mandatory reading in middle school and I was hooked.
I have a hard time mailing down my all time favorite. I’d have to say Ready Player One. He just hit all the pop culture that was my childhood.
Lots of great books. I had read every Star Wars novel until Disney took over and proclaimed the cannon didn’t happen. Forty years of reading and common knowledge suddenly gone. I still refuse to give Disney a cent since this destruction of such hallowed material.
I have to read a lot for a living. It makes reading on downtime really tough. I just bought the second book in a five year span for recreational reading. The last was Ready Player Two before Alita Battle Angel original manga this weekend. Everything else is the DSM-5 and psychology related studies and published papers. Yuk.
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