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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 443926, member: 56&quot;]I know I read Hardy Boys, and since I had sisters, some Nancy Drew as well.&nbsp; I honestly didn&#039;t think there was a lot to tell between them.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we visited my grandparents, I would read the books left over from my father&#039;s childhood.&nbsp; I don&#039;t remember the names, but they were very much like Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew (with some notably outdated dialogue).</p><p><br /></p><p>We mostly had anthologies.&nbsp; My father bought a set of children&#039;s classics that he would read to us every night. That&#039;s where I first heard Alice in Wonderland, and Treasure Island. It&#039;s how I first encountered illustrators like Greenaway, Crane, Parrish, Wyeth, Rackham.</p><p><br /></p><p>Comic reading was strictly censored.&nbsp; No superheroes.&nbsp; And things like Weird Tales or Tales from the Crypt?&nbsp; Fuggedaboudit!&nbsp; (Fortunately my friends had stacks of the things.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The first author I remember following was Andre Norton in my early teens.&nbsp; Bradbury. Heinlein. Asimov.&nbsp; Then I found Tolkien...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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