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The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Edit: by Douglas Adams (yeah, like that addition was needed)
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
As crazy as what we’ve discovered with physics and consciousness in the last two years, I legitimately think there may be something to it.
Like, maybe the scientific pursuit of measuring the tiniest possible details has a butterfly effect that makes everything in a level we notice completely fucking insane.
Like how Google maps when you zoom in it replaces all the pixels. Maybe zooming in anywhere causes a snowball effect where everything everywhere suddenly needs to also be determined at that level, and that’s why shit at the “human level” isn’t running right.
There’s so much in those books that sound so stupid in the surface, but honestly aren’t as far fet he’d as they initially seem.
Gives me Philip K Dick vibes but with some of the best comedic writing ever instead of meth induced paranoia like Dick.
I felt personally offended when my teenage son was like yeah it’s OK.
So that’s why you gave him up for adoption ;)
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The Hobbit.
First “real” book I read at like 10 or 11 and I just went straight the the whole series after.
Theres A Monster At the End of This Book
Hitchhikers Guide, my mom got me to read it really young. I was maybe 8.
Before that, Zoobooks obviously
A Wrinkle in Time.
The Black Cauldron Series.
I hadn’t thought about it, but those may have been the first books I absolutely adored.
After that, I got into Perry Rhodan, a German science fiction serial that has been published weekly since 1961 (yes, they are past issue #3,300 now).
They translated about 140 into English, and I had every one, hunting through used book shope to complete my collection.
I have gone back to read some, and at least the early ones really were abysmal in writing, plotting and early 1960s prejudices. At the time, the scope of the space opera – and the fact that there were so many of them – thrilled me.
By Lloyd Alexander? If so, those were great! I remember reading those to keep me busy at my older sister’s girl scout meetings.
I got really stuck into the Artemis Foul books as a teen. I always thought they’d make a great TV series.
The first of the Dragonlance books. I loved that trilogy so much as a kid. With Raistlin and Caramon, Tika, and Riverwind, Goldmoon… Thirty years later I still remember it.
Richard Scarry’s “What do people do all day” is such a fun book that even now I wish I had again just to flip through the pages and see the intricacies of the drawings
The cat was a bit of an asshole, but figured out how to fit in.
I really like the cover :) So so so cute :)
Pickles, aka the fire cat, is born homelss and lives in a barrel before being adopted by a nice lady and then eventually joining the fire department and improving himself to become a better cat.
Here is Pickles being an asshole by chasing a kitten up a tree, because that is something cats do.
If I remember right Pickles wasn’t able to get down either and had to be rescued by the firemen. It leads to his journey to learn how to be nicer to other cats and improve himself.
😀
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen hit me at the right time as a kid.
Cujo
Almost any Golden Book (Pokey Little Puppy) or
My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George),
Paddington Bear books.
Along with titles others have mentioned (Scarry, etc.). These are firsts
Honestly I can’t remember. I’ve been reading books since 2nd grade and there’s been numerous I loved
Not even one above all? Or the last one you read 😀
The one that really struck me was “Starstreak: Stories from space!” It was a collection of short sci-fi stories including The Haunted Spacesuit and Who Goes There.
Turned me into a lifelong SF reader.
