Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968? Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:53:15 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 02:53:13 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2259dd496c09c56bf100707d5cc59715"; logging-data="760805"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/wlVThYYPGRLIntMpe6cdr" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:AVBKh1pLmqbKEpLJkdHqqdbXmc8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2742 On 7/29/2024 3:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 7/29/2024 12:23 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: >> Jay E. Morris 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 > > "Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (Official Audio)" > > https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2024/07/29/mon-july-29-2024-busy-day-today/ > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOMcAlO7rQ -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.