Thinking about the books I read as a kid

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

I remember reading quite a few of these also.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Investigators

Sometime during my freshman year of highschool I discovered Louis L'Amour. I've read pretty much everything he wrote.

I liked his westerns but also his other stuff. Finally gave a lot of them away. Have always loved reading. Got in trouble in school for it.

damn phone

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

As a grade-school student, I read those types, too.

Some of my favorites were by Jim(?) Kjelgaard. Kids (boys, of course); animals; adventure. Fun to read!

"Chip the Dam Builder" "Hi Jolly" Others I can no longer recall, since it's been nearly 50 years...

And, of course, Jack London - the Commie rat bastard! (but we didn't know it at the time)

jb

You ever read his autobiography? One of his best. Candid for the era

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[Perd Hapley]

Sometime during my freshman year of highschool I discovered Louis L'Amour. I've read pretty much everything he wrote.

I started reading L'Amour at some point in adolescence. I probably got through about a third of his catalog before I started to get very annoyed at the way the same elements and same characters and same phrases appeared time and again.

Still would recommend that everybody read a little L'Amour, though. A very interesting fellow, all by himself.

[Tallpine]

I started reading L'Amour at some point in adolescence. I probably got through about a third of his catalog before I started to get very annoyed at the way the same elements and same characters and same phrases appeared time and again.

Shocking!   

It's sure good that Hollywood never does that sort of thing 

[Perd Hapley]

I'm not saying other writers don't do it, but I don't think I've come across any as transparent about it as Louis.

[RoadKingLarry]

I started reading L'Amour at some point in adolescence. I probably got through about a third of his catalog before I started to get very annoyed at the way the same elements and same characters and same phrases appeared time and again.

Still would recommend that everybody read a little L'Amour, though. A very interesting fellow, all by himself.

I always looked at as more of a "hanging out with a familiar friend" than as a predictable formula.

[Perd Hapley]

I think of it as "hanging out with a friend who keeps telling the same stories, as if you hadn't heard them before."   

[Scout26]

No, I mean the Golden Book Encyclopedia.



http://www.ebay.com/bhp/golden-book-encyclopedia

We had these at home plus a set of Funk & Wagnalls from the mid 50's.  Also the library was a short bicycle ride away.  I remember a series of hardcover books each ~250-300 pages long and all with a Outer Space/Sci-fi theme.   I can't recall if Heinlein was one of the authors but there had to be 50-75 books each stand-alone and geared toward pre-teen/early teenage boys.  

I remember the first time I found National Review magazine at about age 12.

[Boomhauer]

Oh I also had a subscription to Popular Mechanics (back when they were still good) when I was a kid. Good stuff. About around 2002ish they went to *expletive deleted*it so dropped my subscription. Final straw was an article.that was ostensibly about searching for Patton's legendary buried stash of military equipment in the west. The article was more about the staff riding ATVs in the desert than the history, legend, search, results etc.

[Tallpine]

Oh I also had a subscription to Popular Mechanics (back when they were still good) when I was a kid. Good stuff. About around 2002ish they went to *expletive deleted* so dropped my subscription. Final straw was an article.that was ostensibly about searching for Patton's legendary buried stash of military equipment in the west. The article was more about the staff riding ATVs in the desert than the history, legend, search, results etc.

I used to read every word including the ads of every Field & Stream and Sports Afield that I could get my hands on.  I fondly remember guys like Ed Zern and Corey Ford and Gene Hill. 

[freakazoid]

an article.that was ostensibly about searching for Patton's legendary buried stash of military equipment in the west.

What now?

[Boomhauer]

What now?

The legend goes that Patton buried a bunch of military equipment in the deserts of California and AZ. Some say it was in case of invasion others say because the equipment broke it was buried instead of recovered.

[Scout26]

It would be buried at Ft. Irwin or near Yuma if he did.  That's however is highly doubtful as the US Army was terribly under equipped when Patton was there.  Burying anything more then trash would have been unheard of.  Plus the supply and services guy would have noticed.  Burying Serial Numbered equipment would have been noticed most rickey-tic.
 

[Boomhauer]

That was my view too, that all production was going to war theaters, certainly not buried for future use...