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Kurt Busiek  
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 More options Jul 5, 9:59 pm
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: Kurt Busiek <k...@busiek.comics>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 09:59:35 -0700
Local: Sat, Jul 5 2008 9:59 pm
Subject: Re: Poll query: what was the first scifi or fantasy book you read?
On 2008-07-05 09:23:27 -0700, "bayno...@yahoo.com" <bayn...@gmail.com> said:

> 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, ab
> out 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 star
> ted 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.

The books are still the same, unruined.

Well, depending on one's opinion about the edits for racist content,
but that had nothing to do with movies.

kdb


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