On Wed Jul-03-2013 07:41, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
   Hi,   
      
    PQ> On Tue, 02 Jul 13, you wrote to me:   
      
    RN> I was a voracious reader back then and read anything that looked   
    RN> interesting, from murder mysteries, WWII stuff and from Sci-Fi to   
    RN> Elementary Physics, which, believe it or not, was easier for me to   
    RN> understand than Algebra 101.   
      
    PQ> Same here but I started late; I did 95% of my reading growing up in   
    PQ> the 60s.   
      
   I'm still growing up.  (-:   
      
    PQ> I'm still not into 'murder mysteries', however during my schooling    
    PQ> I was whizzing through 3-4 books per week besides whatever was    
    PQ> required for classes.   
      
   I began with Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer books, some Harold Robbins; Sci-Fi   
   with Leigh Brackett, Robert Moore Williams, A.E. van Vogt, Ray Bradbury and my   
   favorite, Isaac Asimov and some others.  A book wasn't safe from me if it   
   looked interesting.  That slowed down quite a bit when I read Jaws, as did my   
   fondness for surf fishing.  I also have a fondness for Naval stories and my   
   favorite among them all is Run Silent, Run Deep.  It's a classic and much more   
   brutal than Burt Lancaster's movie, which was based on the book.   
      
    PQ> The air war over England & Europe in WWII was a staple topic of    
    PQ> research.   
      
   I had some home schooling on that topic.  My brother's wife and her family   
   came from London to "Noo Orleens" after that war and I heard firsthand about   
   how terrifying it was for them.  My imagination went wild.  True, we here saw   
   newsreels of those events, but to talk to someone who actually lived through   
   it was fuel for the imagination.  If that wasn't bad enough, my sister's   
   father-in-law was an Army doctor (we called him "the Colonel") who toured some   
   Nazi concentration camps and he gave us the "lay of the land."  That made the   
   hair on the nape of my neck stand on end.   
      
    PQ> For SciFi, I was particularly taken with the Stainless Steel Rat    
    PQ> stories, and, genre.  Great stuff that didn't require the know-how    
    PQ> of the gadgets; things just worked, when they were working.   
      
   Like in the movie Battleship?  (-:   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
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