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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (101276)	4/14/2005 9:17:36 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The first book that I remember reading was "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It opened my eyes to the world hidden in books, just waiting for me. I read "The World Book Encyclopedia" quite a bit after learning in the fourth grade that "We never guess; we look it up!" I still have a set, and every time I have to move them I think--why do I need this, I have Google and Teoma at my finger tips? But I can't bear to let them go. I really got hooked on Louis L'Amour in the sixth grade. I've read most of his books, and I have most of them in my library. It's not what I'd call gifted writing, but it's gifted story telling. You can bet a creek or a campsite in one of L'Amour's stories is a real place and he's been there. I also admire L'Amour's ability to write undistracted. He said he could write in the middle of a Los Angeles intersection until he got hit. I really do credit and appreciate L'Amour's love for books and self-learning to my beliefs about them. My library is not as big as his, but it's all I can handle, and I love it. One thing I like about L'Amour stories: There is black and there is white, no gray. The good guys are good and the bad guys are bad. Maybe that's too formulaic for the intelligentsia, but it sure makes for clearer thinking.