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From: djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:22:35 GMT
Local: Sat, Jul 5 2008 10:22 pm
Subject: Re: Poll query: what was the first scifi or fantasy book you read?
In article <b553bf82-9e3c-4814-8e22-9277fb636...@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>,
bayno...@yahoo.com <bayn...@gmail.com> wrote: Well, I thought they were good. The books, that is --- though >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 the Rex Harrison film wasn't so bad IMO. But a friend of mine, when the books were mentioned (this was around 1970) said that they were horrible, bigoted, biased *anti-Russian* diatribes. Now, I don't remember anything about Russians in the books at all. But it's been years. Can anyone remember? Dorothy J. Heydt You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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