I loved Marguerite Henry books! And the Black Stallion books - also books by Patsy Gray. There were a number of dog stories that I loved to: Jim Kjelgaard, Albert Payson Terhune.
Oh, Kavik the Wolf-Dog. Snow Chief about a sled dog.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
sumi - Aug 28, 2008 9:16:49 am PDT #7109 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!
Laga - Aug 28, 2008 9:26:13 am PDT #7110 of 28769
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Albert Payson Terhune
oh yeah! Lad and Lady! I am so loving this trip down literary memory lane.
Strega - Aug 28, 2008 9:31:03 am PDT #7111 of 28769
I definitely had a big "horse books & dog books" phase in elementary school. I loved Farley's books. Now I love how they got crazier and crazier, with aliens and voodoo gods and the apocalypse. In retrospect, I worry about him a little.
I remember Kavik the Wolf-Dog. Dimly, but I definitely read it a few times. Was it sort of The Incredible Journey, with a little Jack London thrown in?
Well, and I still love White Fang.
Laga - Aug 28, 2008 9:33:20 am PDT #7112 of 28769
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
aliens and voodoo gods
clearly I shouldn't have stopped at The Black Stallion and the Girl. That seemed like the logical end of the story. I didn't realize they kept going after that.
sumi - Aug 28, 2008 9:35:58 am PDT #7113 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!
remember Kavik the Wolf-Dog. Dimly, but I definitely read it a few times. Was it sort of The Incredible Journey, with a little Jack London thrown in?
Yes, I believe so.
Black Stallion and the Girl was one the later books. The aliens were part of the short "Island Stallion" books.
DavidS - Aug 28, 2008 9:38:16 am PDT #7114 of 28769
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I read the Island Stallion first and was a little bummed when it lost to the Black in the match race.
Laga - Aug 28, 2008 9:38:34 am PDT #7115 of 28769
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
hmm how did I miss them? I was kind of irrationally scared of aliens as a kid. I shouldn't have read Whitley Streiber so soon. It's possible I read one one of the Island Stallion books and forgot about it on purpose. On the other hand I was very focused on The Black so if he wasn't in them I might never have bought one.
Barb - Aug 28, 2008 9:41:26 am PDT #7116 of 28769
“Not dead yet!”
Heh. I was reading Roots in fifth grade and Rosemary Rogers' bodice rippers in sixth, and I'm not damaged! (Much.)
I read The Thorn Birds I think when I was in sixth grade. I still remember my mom asking me what it was about and I answered, "a priest in Australia."
sumi - Aug 28, 2008 9:45:49 am PDT #7117 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!
Walter Farley also wrote a nice biography of Man O'War (well, I remember it as nice - I haven't read it in years.)
Toddson - Aug 28, 2008 9:46:09 am PDT #7118 of 28769
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
People! has no one mentioned the Oz books? I loved those books, even when they (finally) let me into the adult section of the public library, I'd go back and read them.