I read this thread and then I went to the library and then I couldn't remember any of the stuff I'd decided I was going to get. So I came home with a bunch of kayaking stuff. Inefficient.
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
Wash ,'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Liese S. - Aug 17, 2010 10:00:02 am PDT #11934 of 28352
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
JZ - Aug 17, 2010 10:16:14 am PDT #11935 of 28352
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
My first book. Which I still have (in two pieces; the book and the binding have completely separated) and have read to Matilda more than a few times. I still love it so, so much.
erikaj - Aug 17, 2010 10:17:22 am PDT #11936 of 28352
Always Anti-fascist!
I have no idea what my first book was.
Jessica - Aug 17, 2010 10:20:11 am PDT #11937 of 28352
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
(Ok, it's not really reading - he's got the book memorized. But still pretty damn cute, I think.)
Aims - Aug 17, 2010 10:20:35 am PDT #11938 of 28352
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My first book was "The Amiable Giant". I liked it because it had my name in the title.
Kathy A - Aug 17, 2010 10:23:50 am PDT #11939 of 28352
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The earliest book of mine that I still have is my copy of The Reluctant Dragon, but that only dates to 2nd grade or so.
ETA: Oh, I do remember sitting with my sister over our family copy of Ferdinand the Bull (the red cover with the Munro Leaf illustration on it) and reading it together. I was probably in kindergarten then. We nicknamed our dog Ferdinand (even though the dog was a she) just because she was such a lazy dog, which English bulldogs tend to be.
Shari_H - Aug 17, 2010 10:24:32 am PDT #11940 of 28352
Keep breathing!
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators
Okay, help me out here - wasn't there a story in one of those books where the kids were kidnapped and part of the coded message they sent home was "Peggy's as good a name as any" - referring to some non-existent pet or something - which was supposed to translate into "Pegasus" and give some clue to where they were? I HATED that, it has always stuck with me as just so illogical. I think that's the first time I got kicked right out of a story and went, "Huh?"
Generally I liked those books, but I think I read them when I was a little older and a little more aware as a reader. I'm sure there were plenty of "huh?" moments in the Cherry Ames books, too, but I zoomed right over them.
meara - Aug 17, 2010 10:25:59 am PDT #11941 of 28352
Black Stallion went alien!?! I definitely didn't read far enough in that series.
I don't have my first book but I do have my first "chapter book": Key to the Treasure by Peggy Parish. I loooooved that book. So much so that my dad got sick of seeing me read it and put it on top of the fridge so I'd have to tea something else. Years later I found out there was a sequel--had he only known!
Frankenbuddha - Aug 17, 2010 10:28:42 am PDT #11942 of 28352
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators.
I went through a bunch of those when I was a kid. My biggest disappointment (as with Scooby Doo) was that the supernatural stuff was always faked.
A childhood (early teen era) book that made a big impression: anybody else ever read House of Stairs?
Hil R. - Aug 17, 2010 10:31:00 am PDT #11943 of 28352
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think I only read the first Black Stallion book. Now I really want to find the rest and read all of them.