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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968?
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In article <v88j68$84c$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>Jay E. Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
>>
>>I would have been checking books out of the small town school library so 
>>anything I was reading in 68 wouldn't have been published in 68. Or 67, 
>>or 66 and maybe a couple year before.[1] Well, there may have been the 
>>rare exception in the drugstore revolving book rack that I convinced Mom 
>>to buy.
>
>My elementary school had a small library but one that had been
>excellently-curated some time in the 1920s and not really updated
>since then.  I thought this was very cool and read a lot of Jules Verne and 
>souvenir booklets from the Sesquicentennial.
>
>Then I discovered that in the attic of the school were stacks of books
>that had been removed from the library, including a full set of the
>original Tom Swift books.  These probably didn't have quite the effect
>that they would have had on the original readers, since the idea of
>building your own cars and airplanes was not as farfetched as when the
>books were originally written.  But I think this might have made them
>more appealing since they were relatively achievable fantasies.  I have
>since then built my own car out of scrap parts.
>--scott
>

They started out pretty prosaic with just a motorcycle, but eventually
Tom was doing Skytrains, through-the-walls "Television Detector"s
and electric bullets.
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