Fiction or non-fiction

[clovishound]

I caught the bug early. Read everything of interest in the local library. Mostly I read Sci fi. Still do. I have branched out somewhat, and read the occasional no fiction, but Sci fi is still the major interest.

[markiver54]

Some of what was sci fi since I was a child has become reality.

[Mags]

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Big foot's a teddy bear or wookie. Godzilla trailer as a kid scared the cr@p out of me. Glad I grew out of it. Jurassic park would have been pure terror.

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I didn't. As a kid I was terrified of monsters, night terrors included. I have no recollection of when I out grew that. But thankfully I did. Oh ya I was also terrified at night by paintings and portraits of people's faces. Their eyes glowed in the dark and followed my moments.

...I read Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine when I was 10 too...

Careful Mags, Big Foot might be out there!....

[markiver54]

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Big foot's a teddy bear or wookie. Godzilla trailer as a kid scared the cr@p out of me. Glad I grew out of it. Jurassic park would have been pure terror.

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I didn't. As a kid I was terrified of monsters, night terrors included. I have no recollection of when I out grew that. But thankfully I did. Oh ya I was also terrified at night by paintings and portraits of people's faces. Their eyes glowed in the dark and followed my moments.

Careful Mags, Big Foot might be out there!....

[Redthies]

In books, I read 90% fiction. TV is 90% documentaries. Old radio shows at night. Tales of the Texas Rangers from 1950-1952 is the current flavor.

[csgrv]

I caught the bug early also, I have a Kindle with a large selection everything from the Constitution to Lord of the rings. Unfortunately after several cross county moves most of the actual books ended up at the local Library.

[markiver54]

I pin books, I read 90% fiction. TV is 90% documentaries. Old radio shows at night. Tales of the Texas Rangers from 1950-1952 is the current flavour.

Nice balance!

[CT_Shooter]

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In addition...I didn't begin my college education until I was 42, so when I was introduced to true literature, it blew my thirsty mind.

I took two semesters of Shakespeare and fell in love with it. The plays that hooked me are Henry IV (1 and 2), Henry V, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, and A Winter's Tale. I especially love Henry V, though; a profound telling of a wartime King and his "band of brothers."

During my first two semesters, I also took a Literature course where we studied Melville's Moby Dick, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, and Kafka's Metamorphosis. All of these had a profound influence on my understanding and appreciation of writing as an art form.

As a young man of eighteen, the books that most influenced me are Herman Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund and Siddhartha, and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. I've read all of them many times through the years. I strongly recommend each of them as exquisite, well told stories with deep moral and ethical themes. Just wonderful!

[Greyhawk]

Mostly biographies... Just looking at my bookshelf of favorites, here are a few titles I have really enjoyed and have read multiple times:
'Nicholas and Alexandra' by Robert Massie (About the last Czar of Russia, his family, and Russia's move to communism)
'We Die Alone' and 'Sledge Patrol' by David Howarth (great books of true story survival in the artic during WWII)
'Kon-Tiki' by Thor Heyerdahl (Riding a raft across the entire Pacific Ocean... quite an adventure!)
'Stories for Boys' by Jack London (I don't know what kind of boys lived back then.. but these are quite the stories!)
'Endurance' by Alfred Lansing (Stranded in Antarctica, the ship is crushed, and you must self rescue you and your men, it takes over a year but Shackleton did it!)
Great books and could name many others, I love to read about real people and their stories

[clovishound]

Some of what was sci fi since I was a child has become reality.

But where are our flying cars?

I want my flying car!

I'd much rather have that than a flip phone. "Beam me up Scotty" only got a laugh once or twice.

[markiver54]

Well...at least computers obey commands now, doors open for us etc. The list could go on and on...ya might just live long enough to have that flying car too!... ..oh, and when Scotty is able, I welcome him to "beam me up"..

[Mags]

Robert B Parker books - Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch Series
https://www.goodreads.com/series/49739- ... rett-hitch

[Ojaileveraction]

Hard science Sci-fi has been a favorite since 3rd grade. Space at, Danny Dunn.
Some of the very adult content by age 14 reading Heinlein.
Still have a couple hundred paper backs from H of course, Asimov, Clarke, Niven, so many others.
My mom was a reader an I had access to all the Reader's Digest condensed books .

Tim

[The Wiz]

Mostly Sci Fi and fantasy. I still remember my first Sci Fi book " Alas, Babylon " by Pat Frank. I grew up with the pulp monthly that came with authors like Clarke, Azmov, Heinlin, all hard science fiction. Then in college read The Hobbit and that got me into Fantasy. Strickley a library guy.

[markiver54]

Best way to go I guess Wiz.am enjoying this thread!

[JayZuv]

I like to read quite a bit. I'm a big fan of Stephen King novels, at this point I've read nearly all of them. Also, one of my favorites are Ian Flemings James Bond novels from the 50's. I read non fiction here and there but i need a book with some excitement to keep me engaged.

[Mags]

Just got my hands on the latest CJ Box book "Wolf Pack". Give me something to keep my mind off waiting for my Long Ranger to be repaired and returned.

[BrokenolMarine]

Miss T and I had errands to run in the truck yesterday and she had to go though she was still feeling poorly. A big loop of driving, six hours or so, and poorly doesn't lead to stimulating convo. I got to thinking about books I had been given to read as a child, two series stand out.

The first an elementary school librarian gave me.. "Bristle Face" by Zachery Ball.. She had placed a bookmark in that book. "Mr. Ball writes series," she said tapping the bookmark, " as much as you read, I think you will like the way the stories go on and on. There are several about this boy. Then another Character, Joe Panther and his Friend Tiger Tail. They are seminoles and get into a number of adventures. "

I read them all, then a couple years later, read them all again. I think they are out of print these days, which is sad, great books, especially for young boys.

My Grandmother gave me "All Creatures Great and Small," by James Herriot the Yorkshire vet. There were six or eight in that series and I read and reread them as well. Follows his adventures from his twenties just out of college... To retirement.

[PatientWolf]

Usually I read some type of dystopian fiction...
William R Forstchen
G. Michael Hopf
A. American
Arthur T. Bradley
Ray Gotham
Joe Nobody
Glen Tate
Mike Whitworth
Jim Hicks

Right now I’m reading The Federalist Papers, though.

[Mags]

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Just finished "Wolf Pack". Next up Tara Ross's "The Indispensable Electoral College".

Just got my hands on the latest CJ Box book "Wolf Pack". Give me something to keep my mind off waiting for my Long Ranger to be repaired and returned.