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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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Stephen
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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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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
have been a story called "Silbermöve melden Sie sich" (loosely
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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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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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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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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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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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.
--
-Nekar Xenos-
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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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Le 2011-05-29 08:57, Stephen a écrit :
> 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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Le 2011/05/29 08:57, Stephen a écrit :
> 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 the first one, but I did like all those scientific and
thecnical books.
I do remember going through a BIG dictionary, reading pages after pages
(about 10 inches thick that used sone springs to hold the pages...),
reading a large book about astronomy, assimilating plans books for some
airplanes, like the CF105 when it was relatively new into service,...
Alain
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On 5/29/2011 5:57, 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.
Mine was "the night before christmas". (You know, the one with saint nick
coming down the chimney, eight reindeer on the roof, all that.) I vividly
remember just suddenly being able to read it, kneeling next to the bed with
a pile of stuff on the bed and looking at the book, and suddenly it made sense.
Apparently, what few people ever teach children but which accounts for the
biggest stumbling block (at least that I've read) is that the words are
separated by spaces. Too obvious to actually tell a kid that, I guess, and
jumping from reading individual words to full sentences needs that insight.
I'm not sure how accurate that research was, but it was an interesting thought.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On 5/29/2011 13:26, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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).
I don't remember what the first "real" book I read was. I had finished the
non-fiction section at school by fifth grade when we were assigned to read a
fiction book. So I read "Lost, A Moon" (or some such name), about this
family getting kidnapped by Phobos (yes, the martian moon Phobos).
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On 06/06/2011 04:15 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Apparently, what few people ever teach children but which accounts for
> the biggest stumbling block (at least that I've read) is that the words
> are separated by spaces. Too obvious to actually tell a kid that, I
> guess, and jumping from reading individual words to full sentences needs
> that insight. I'm not sure how accurate that research was, but it was an
> interesting thought.
Interesting. I was the worst reader in my class for over a decade, yet I
never had any trouble with that.
(The trouble *I* had was that the English language does not have any
consistent mathematical structure. It's just random. There is no
algorithm to compute the correct spelling for an arbitrary word. The
only way to read and write is to simply *memorise* the spelling of EVERY
WORD IN THE ENTIRE LANGUAGE. This is both extremely difficult and
/highly/ exasperating.)
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