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To: ManyMoose who wrote (223866)	10/12/2007 9:33:53 PM
From: alanrs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793549

>Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes< I knew we had some things in common. I read every word the guy ever wrote, 7th & 8th grade. "Thuvia, Maid of Mars" John Carter, best swordsman on two planets. He wrote a lot of stuff. All the Tom Swifts and Hardy boys and Nancy Drews and Sherry Ames before that. There were four of us who mowed lawns and then went to the bookstore and bought every science fiction title there was and passed it around. Plus every novel in the library. Anybody out there know what a Quangle Wangle is? Guy who wrote great limricks, the name escapes me. I'm not as fast a reader as Lindy Bill apparently is, but a novel a day was about the pace from 10 to 18. Spent one summer around 14 listening to Beethoven symphonies and reading 3 a day. Didn't seem to interfere with sports or school. I probably didn't sleep much, reading under the covers by flashlight so as not to disturb my brother. Really loved that old paid by the word, serial story writer Burroughs. Your mention brought back many fond memories. ARS

To: ManyMoose who wrote (223866)	10/13/2007 12:38:35 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 793549

lol, me too. I know the backs of most cereal boxes really well. Louis La'more was certainly one of the top witers of all time. Zane Grey was good as well. He spent a lot of his life in New Zealand fishing. that always seemed idealic-lol. Part of my spelling problem is I had little primary education. And all that reading in later years never seemed to help? The next year after I wrote the first state plan for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse I hired a now famous writer Richard K. Nelson (one can google him) to rewrite it. My plan was sound, still used today, but the english was pretty bad-lol. He reduced the verbage by about 2/3rds as I remember-lol.