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From: Stephen
Subject: First Book you ever read
Date: 29 May 2011 08:57:53
Message: <4de242d1$1@news.povray.org>
On another forum, someone asked, what was the first book you ever read?

Mine was Doctor Dolittle, when I was about 9 or 10. A late starter, I know.

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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: First Book you ever read
Date: 29 May 2011 09:47:09
Message: <4de24e5d$1@news.povray.org>
On 29/05/2011 01:57 PM, Stephen wrote:
> On another forum, someone asked, what was the first book you ever read?
>
> Mine was Doctor Dolittle, when I was about 9 or 10. A late starter, I know.

Now presumably the first book anybody reads is some school textbook with 
sentences of 3 words or less. I'm presuming by "book" you mean a work of 
literature that wasn't designed expressly to teach people to read?

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From: clipka
Subject: Re: First Book you ever read
Date: 29 May 2011 10:07:24
Message: <4de2531c$1@news.povray.org>
Am 29.05.2011 14:57, schrieb Stephen:
> On another forum, someone asked, what was the first book you ever read?
>
> Mine was Doctor Dolittle, when I was about 9 or 10. A late starter, I know.

Do picture books (with a minimum of printed text) count as well? If so, 
the first book I read myself was most probably "The Very Hungry 
Caterpillar" ("Die Kleine Raupe Nimmersatt").

Not sure what the first thing was that really deserved the term "book". 
Might have been some fairy tale, might have been "The Hobbit", might 

translated "Calling silver dove", a story about a north american jet 
fighter pilot crash-landing in the arctic). I guess I was more into 
comics in childhood times though (or, to be more precise, anything that 
had pictures with text combined; this included the photograph & 
illustration sections of the "Life Sciience Library" ("Life Wunder der 
Wissenschaft"), which actually happened to be my favorite pre-school 
literature; so I guess it's no surprise I grew up to be a bit nerdish :-)).


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: First Book you ever read
Date: 29 May 2011 11:05:27
Message: <4de260b7@news.povray.org>
On 29/05/2011 2:47 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 29/05/2011 01:57 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> On another forum, someone asked, what was the first book you ever read?
>>
>> Mine was Doctor Dolittle, when I was about 9 or 10. A late starter, I
>> know.
>
> Now presumably the first book anybody reads is some school textbook with
> sentences of 3 words or less. I'm presuming by "book" you mean a work of
> literature that wasn't designed expressly to teach people to read?
>

<Sigh> For pleasure.

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     Stephen


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From: Jim Holsenback
Subject: Re: First Book you ever read
Date: 29 May 2011 12:55:45
Message: <4de27a91$1@news.povray.org>
On 05/29/2011 09:57 AM, Stephen wrote:
> On another forum, someone asked, what was the first book you ever read?
>
> Mine was Doctor Dolittle, when I was about 9 or 10. A late starter, I know.
>
don't recall if it was the first, but about the same age (9 or 10) I 
loved "Homer Price" ... he was a kid inventor and I loved some of those 
gadgets he was always inventing.


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: First Book you ever read
Date: 29 May 2011 13:16:31
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On 29/05/2011 04:05 PM, Stephen wrote:

> <Sigh> For pleasure.

[insert whitty remark here]

In that case, for me it was probably Duncton Wood by William Horwood. 
(We're talking about a long, *long* time ago...)

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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: First Book you ever read
Date: 29 May 2011 14:45:01
Message: <web.4de2938edab519289a1bcfb90@news.povray.org>
I frankly don't remember, either book or age.  As a kid, possibly "O menino
maluquinho" or "Pluft, o fantasminha".  Also, old Hans Christian Andersen fairy
tales in illustrated books.  But at that age I was much more into comics,
cartoons and games to care much.  My taste for books and music only really
developed in my teens.  I read Dune, 2010 and many classics for school.


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From: Nekar Xenos
Subject: Re: First Book you ever read
Date: 29 May 2011 15:07:18
Message: <op.vv9befvtufxv4h@xena>
On Sun, 29 May 2011 14:57:53 +0200, Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:

> On another forum, someone asked, what was the first book you ever read?
>
> Mine was Doctor Dolittle, when I was about 9 or 10. A late starter, I  
> know.
>

I can't remember It was either one of the "the Hardy Boys" books or some  
Enid Blyton book. It must have been somewhere around Grade 3.

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: First Book you ever read
Date: 29 May 2011 16:26:04
Message: <4de2abdc$1@news.povray.org>
On Sun, 29 May 2011 13:57:53 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On another forum, someone asked, what was the first book you ever read?
> 
> Mine was Doctor Dolittle, when I was about 9 or 10. A late starter, I
> know.

Hard to say, I remember a book about whales that I read to my mom when I 
was 5 or 6, but I also know I was reading Asimov at 6 or 7 (I was granted 
special access to the 'big kids' section of the school library).

Jim


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From: Francois Labreque
Subject: Re: First Book you ever read
Date: 30 May 2011 07:53:13
Message: <4de38529$1@news.povray.org>

> On another forum, someone asked, what was the first book you ever read?
>
> Mine was Doctor Dolittle, when I was about 9 or 10. A late starter, I know.
>

If we can include comics, Tintin and Asterix.  If not, then it was a big 
Disney book that had dozens of stories in it.

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