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P. Taine  
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 More options Jul 6 2008, 3:17 am
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: P. Taine <u...@domaine.invalid>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:17:05 GMT
Local: Sun, Jul 6 2008 3:17 am
Subject: Re: Poll query: what was the first scifi or fantasy book you read?
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 09:23:27 -0700 (PDT), "bayno...@yahoo.com"

<bayn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jul 5, 10:44 am, P. Taine <u...@domaine.invalid> wrote:
>> Read, or read to?  The first book I read myself was one of the ERB Mars books,
>> probably "A Princess of Mars".  I would guess second or third grade, about 1942.
>> But before that my mother (who gave me the ERB) had read the Alice books,
>> Wonderland/Looking Glass, and Kingsley's "Water Babies"  I think I started on
>> Amazing stories a year or two later.

>You know what was some good stuff, warped &  ruined by subsequent film
>perversions?? The "Doctor Dolittle" series.

Oh yes, that was in the house as was the *real* Winnie-the-Pooh, and fairytale
books, some of which I can't remember the titles of anymore.  (At 74 some of the
info has leaked out.)  And Tarzan, and Pelucidar (sp?), etc.  My mother was a
ERB fan, big time.

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