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Guinness Book of World Records had all sorts of weird and interesting stuff. It was THE authority to settle petty arguments amongst ourselves. I read it for the first time in 4th grade. It opened my eyes to what was really possible.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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And how can I forget ; The American Boys Handy Book . That was a treasure, and Tom Sawyer too
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As others have said. My Side of the Mountain and Where the Red Fern grows I had never heard of My Side of the Mountain until this thread. I just ordered the hard cover off of eBay.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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Old Yeller
Born Free
AVALANCHE!
Where the Wild Things Are
Watership Down
Stranger in a Strange Land
Where the Red Fern Grows
Peach Boy
Webster's Dictionary and Encyclopedia Brittannica
Unfortunately, TV has reduced Watership Down to a kids' story instead of what the book is - a comparison of systems of government. That's the problem with so many books that end up on the screen. They change them so much that they're unrecognizable and usually the author's intent is gone.
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― George Orwell
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World Book. My parents bought the set when I was in grade school, the 1955 version. I would grab one at random and just start reading. That was during the period of a massive increase in technology and 10 years later much of it was obsolete. There was almost nothing there about the space race, for example.. Did exactly the same, but with the 1958 version. Loved to read, still do.
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When its time to fight, you fight like you are the third monkey on the ramp to get on Noah's Arc... and brother, it is starting to rain!
The chair is against the wall.
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The Encyclopedia Britannica. ^^^^^ Rich Kid ^^^^^ 
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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Bomba the Jungle Boy. A 12 year old kid, he could kill a puma with his knife. Bomba was a real bad ass.
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1960 edition World Book, A-Z
Never cry wolf
White fang
Call of the wild
My side of the mountain
A bunch of different mystery novel series; Hardy Boys...
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other than the aforementioned hustler, i was a voracious reader from an early age. some of the earliest stuff i read was tom sawyer and huck finn. i also read everything i could find from louis lamour. robert louis stevenson was another. there are some other no-name books i read that were excellent and all written early-mid 20th century. in my pre-teens i read all the hardy boys and nancy drews and a few more of the same genre. books were huge in my life up until computers came about. i still enjoy reading louis lamour or zane gray but i find that anymore i fall asleep real fast reading books.
My diploma is a DD214
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Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett and encyclopedia
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The Iliad and the Odyssey, World Book and Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
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Don't wish it were easier
Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that.
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The first book I recall reading was, Justin Morgan Had a Horse.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
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The Gadfly
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The Encyclopedia Britannica. ^^^^^ Rich Kid ^^^^^ An assumption , I read them on library time as I’m sure many others did . We lived in a rented chicken house converted to a half azz home . Our cars came from a local junk yard , though some of them were pretty decent cars for the times . Dad worked minimum wage most of the time . Sure as hell wasn’t no rich kid . Kenneth
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Holy Moley! I had this book as a kid and loved it. I read it several times. My somewhat unfeeling mother threw it and my comic book collection away, as well as all my models. Not a lot of fuzzy warm feelings here. https://www.amazon.com/Carcajou-Rutherford-Montgomery/dp/B000MHTDD6![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/WGMmmjf.jpg)
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Hunt with Class and Classics
Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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So you guys really “read” Playboy!? Oh that’s right…. all the articles 😮
We had a ‘56 version of World Book Encyclopedia and like others have said, I’d walk up to the shelf, pick one out I hadn’t read lately and start reading.
A five or ten years later we were driving down to my grandparents home in Monticello and as we drove by a dead “something” in the road my father said, “that was an armadillo”.
I said “It can’t be an armadillo because the Encyclopedia said they’re only located west of the Mississippi.
Later, on the way home, as we approached the dead critter we slowed down to get a good look at it. Sure enough the tail and some of the shell gave it away.
When we got back home I had to show everyone what the Encyclopedia had to say about them. That’s when I learned that you can’t always believe what you read. 😊
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I have a few similar family memories, none good for a smile. Quite the opposite, actually. Anyway, I can relate. Sorry to hear.
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I reread that book many times.
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