Cleaning Out
Before
Now that I have “grown up”, and discovered that most books are available online (for free or otherwise) – I am getting rid of old books of my childhood. This is a popular trend in many blogs – See How to Get Rid of Stuff. It is a wonderfully cathartic, introspective exercise. It is like putting old friends to their rest – assisted suicide to some – but to honor the many enjoyable hours I have spent with them in my youth, here are their names for posterity (in no particular order of reading age):
- Willard Price – Underwater, Safari, Tiger, Elephant, Diving Adventure
- Ben Jeapes – The Ark
- Gladwell – Outliers
- Humphreys – Final Notes from a Great Island
- Usborne – Puzzle Adventure Omnibus
- Tolkien – Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit
- Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
- William Golding – Lord of the Flies
- Will Shakespeare – Merchant of Venice
- “K. A. Applegate” – The Everworld and Animorphs Series
- Levitt and Dubner – Freakonomics
- Sue Townsend – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13.75
- Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
- C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia
- Asimove – I, Robot and other stories
- Mike Ashley – Space Stories Anthology, Fantasy Stories Anthology
- George Orwell – Animal Farm
- H. G. Wells – The Time Machine
- Lynne Reid Banks – The Indian Trilogy
- Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Charles Ashton – The Dragon Fire Trilogy
- Elizabeth Laird – Red Sky In the Morning
- Jean Webster – Daddy-Long-Legs
- The 3 Investigators
- JK Galbraith – The Age of Uncertainty
- Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game
- Tim Harford – The Undercover Economist
- Scot Flansburg – Math Magic
- Emily Rodda – Finders Keepers
- Roger Lancelyn Green – King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, The Tale of Troy
- Oscar Wilde – The Happy Prince and Other Stories
- E. Nesbit – the Phoenix and the Carpet, The Magic World, The Story of the Amulet
- Alan Dean Foster – Star Wars - Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
- Kevin J. Anderson – Star Wars – Jedi Search, Champions of the Force, and Dark Apprentice
- Brian Jacques – the entire Redwall series
- Richard Adams – Watership Down and Tales from Watership Down
- Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
- Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book, The Scond Jungle Book
- Michael Chrichton – The Andromeda Strain
- The Usborne Knowhow Omnibus, Geography Encyclopedia, Science Through the Microscope, Early Civilization
- Sian Lewis – Project Kite
- Hans Peter Richter – Friedrich
- Paul Jennings – Unbearable, Uncanny, Unbelievable, Undone
- L. Frank Baum – The Wizard of Oz
- Erich Kastner – The Flying Classroom, Emil and the Three Twins
After
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