tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post3813457792076232651..comments2023-10-29T11:58:38.001+01:00Comments on Welcome to the Anglo Swiss World: WordPress Daily Prompt: Bedtime StoriesPat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-78588724970029618052013-03-22T08:16:56.709+01:002013-03-22T08:16:56.709+01:00I read most of the Wyndham books, fascinating stuf...I read most of the Wyndham books, fascinating stuff. We even read Day of the Triffids in the school. I also remember reading a book from Patrick Moore, I think it was A Guide to the Planets, an older one, and I borrowed it time and time again from the library. I was more into horror than science fiction though. today I seem to be catching up on the classics I never read. I also read quite a bit of German literature. I have even got to know Kafka, Thomas Mann, Siegfried Lenz and their books apart from the more modern criminal/police books from Scandinavia and Germany.Pat Gerber-Relfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-75271774035005506142013-03-21T19:38:05.943+01:002013-03-21T19:38:05.943+01:00It's remarkable how much we parallel each othe...It's remarkable how much we parallel each other in many respects. I, too, was an early reader. I was reading well in advance of what they were reading in the first year at school. I was rather bored by it because it was so basic. I had already discovered the delights of the local library. At first I was totally into non-fiction....science, science and more science, I just couldn't get enough of it (why I never became a scientist is still a mystery to me!!! LOL). You mentioned a fascination for dinosaurs.....me too!! I knew the names of all of them by heart three decades before Jurassic Park popularised them!! When it comes to fiction, that's where we diverge. Somehow, I can't remember exactly how, I ended up with editions of The Time Machine by H G Wells and The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham around the age of eight or nine, and my fiction reading was set for life.....Sci-Fi!!. In later years I also developed a liking for political thrillers, too. MitchyLRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11423634734890422795noreply@blogger.com