Some of my best reads as a kid were classics like "Treasure Island" - R.L. Stevenson, "Robinson Crusoe" - Daniel Defoe, "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" - Jules Verne, "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and "The Sleeper Awakes" - both by H.G. Wells. These books and others were always being reprinted as "pocket money" books and I would by them whenever I could afford them until I discovered the fabulous world of '50s and '60s "pulp science fiction" books, comics and magazines. It was through reading these that I first came across names like Robert Heinlein and Andre Norton, Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
After that my fate was sealed and I was a nerd before nerds were heard of and for my own personal reading I collected hundreds of paperback novels from those greats and others until well into my thirties, much to my wife's chagrin! Nowadays I find it difficult to read any text and so, because I still love to read, I read more comics and graphic novels than fictional texts.
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Like a dream of diesel heart that just won't go"
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