What did you read as a child?

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48. From the time I was 4 everything with words

Cereal boxes at breakfast and whatever. By the time I started school I was reading 6 grade level and above books. By 6th grade I was in the adult section of the library reading novels of all sorts with historical fiction right at the top. I read "Little Women" at 10 or 11, all the Edgar Rice Burroughs's books- Tarzan, Mars and some inner earth place. Hardy Boys, Tom Swift Jr. and all of the Frank Baum Oz books.

In high school some of my friends and I formed a club that had an official name but we called it the Society for Pseudo Intellectuals. We had lots of useless philosophical discussions and read Tolstoy, Ain Rand and Allen Ginsburg. We were especially enthralled with Ginsburg's "Howl" because it was banned for the use of Fuck. I don't think any of us got his point until later in life. Around this time I discovered SciFi especially Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson. Also read all of Fleming's James Bond books in order. The movies don't get what Fleming was doing with Bond, he starts out young and full of piss and vinegar and steadily becomes more jaded as he matures, to completely losing himself in You Only Live Twice where he realizes who he really is. That was a good sense to get as a young man.