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To: Lane3 who wrote (13535)	5/29/2002 10:43:09 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 21057

For awhile there, I mostly read the How and Why books, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Then I read a lot of Reader's Digests (my piano teacher was discarding a bunch, so I got a lot of back issues). My parents had quite a few RD condensed books, and that is where I mainly read fiction, like "The Last Hurrah", "Marjorie Morningstar", "The Cardinal", and "Fail Safe", some of which I got in uncondensed form. They also had some collections of classics, so, for example, I read Emerson and Franklin, and various philosophy texts that had been severely abridged. I also read the Upanishads, in a paperback addition; the Bhagavad- Gita; various Buddhist texts in abridged form, in one of the classics series; and excerpts from the Quran. I knew a lot of Greek and Roman mythology, too. One of my favorite things was a book series by Time/Life about the World's Great Religions. A book I became obsessed with at about the age of 11 was "1984", which I read in whole or part numerous times. I also read "Brave New World" a number of times before junior high was out. I read a few children's books, here and there. I recall liking "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Charlotte's Web", and, of course, I always liked "Alice in Wonderland". I read one or two Nancy Drew books. They were okay, as were the Hardy Boys (I think I read one). But I preferred Sherlock Holmes.......

To: Lane3 who wrote (13535)	5/29/2002 10:58:50 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

VICKI BARR,STEWARDESS!!! She was a delicate, tiny but FEISTY blonde, and she dated both a handsome pilot and a reporter (named Pete Carmody or Carmichael?- is that scary that I remember this from 45 years ago, when I can't remember what today is?) You are so right about the influence of those books on our generation. I read all the Nancy Drews, and started writing my own feisty girl detective series when I was about 8. I even remember my star- Sunny Lee Eldridge. That was also my first penname-- I either was very enamored of the name, or I wasn't very creative. There was also CHERRY AMES, FEISTY NURSE and TRIXIE BELDEN, FEISTY TEENAGER.