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Post by Jaga on Sept 6, 2006 15:55:35 GMT -7
Do you remember what was the first book in your life or the first memorable one?
I was a very fast reader as a child. (I am kind of proud of it). From 1st to 3rd grade I was the fastest from all the kids in class, even some other kids in class still remember it. In the first grade I spent the part of the first semester sick - but somehow I was able to compensate for it.
When I was able to read I just started reading and I was reading and reading all through my life since....
the first "thick" book which I read was something about the boy who was changed into the doggy by the balon maker. He was unhappy because as a dog he was treated badly but then somehow he was converted back to the boy.
It was a nice book, it has many chapters. The most puzzling character was the balon maker. The title was long and I do not remember it exactly. But still - this was the first book I read!
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Post by bescheid on Sept 6, 2006 19:34:20 GMT -7
I actully do not remember the first book I have read. I was not a good student in my primary grades, hated school and reading was very difficult for me. I missed my mother and would run away from school the first week.
I think it was fairy tales that were my good start in reading. They were so interesting that one story was good for another. Once able to read well enough, then it was auto books, construction books on bridges and mines. How things were designed. We also had those thin ladies paper books, I liked the stories as they were interesting untill the elders found out and took them away, little boys were not meant to read such.
Other then school books, at the moment I am not sure what first thick book I had first read.
Charles
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Post by suzanne on Sept 6, 2006 20:04:26 GMT -7
I don't remember absolutely the first book, but some of the favorites I read when I was old enough to know how to read were fairy tales, Disney tales, Dr. Seuss' books (a favorite was a Dr. Seuss kids' French/English dictionary, which I still have and which my own kids like), books by the children's author Richard Scarry. Then when I was a little older, I remember reading my children's encyclopedia and nature books, too, and I liked a lot of kids classics, like LIttle House on the Prairie, Tom Sawyer and LIttle Women.
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Post by zooba on Sept 6, 2006 23:43:26 GMT -7
I remember "Awantura o Basiê". I emember reading it at night, under the duvet with a torch. It was so fascinating I couldn't put it down. I have always loved reading - my parents blame it for my poor eyesight. Who cares when a good book is in hand?
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Post by pieter on Sept 7, 2006 6:42:14 GMT -7
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerssons of the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, which was read to me and my sister when we were kids by our father, who had a talent for reading to kids. It was in the early seventees (before 1975)
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Post by pieter on Sept 7, 2006 6:47:10 GMT -7
Next to that there were exiting boys books of the thirtees about the Dutch dark Middle ages which were read to us in the same time. Later I read the books myself. Most of this books were written by Cornelis Johannes Kievit (3 March 1858- 12 August 1931) a Dutch teacher and writer of children's literature. He was born in Hoofddorp and is known for his story about a boy named Dik Trom. A statue of Dik Trom sitting backwards on a donkey can be found in the main square in Hoofddorp. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Johannes_Kievietnl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik_Trom
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Post by jimpres on Sept 7, 2006 8:02:18 GMT -7
I don't remember my first book. But do remember my first music. I had a 45 record of the Nutcracker and I think I wore it out playing it so much.
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Post by bujno on Sept 7, 2006 11:01:33 GMT -7
I don't remember my first book. But do remember my first music. I had a 45 record of the Nutcracker and I think I wore it out playing it so much. I don't remember my first book, either. The first I read that I remember was a pre-Harry Potter ( I sometimes suspect that Joanne Rowling must have committed a plagiarism.) It was 'Akademia pana Kleksa' by Jan Brzechwa I remember Nutcracker ballet I was taken to by my parents at a very early age. My mind must have been programmed then, since I still like Nutcracker music very much.
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Post by pieter on Sept 7, 2006 11:16:54 GMT -7
Wojtek,
Tchaikovsky is just one of the greetest Russian and world composers. Every child must be enchanted when it sees and hears Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and Swan Lake next to Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".
Pieter
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Post by jimpres on Sept 7, 2006 11:20:32 GMT -7
Wojtek/Pieter,
I still love to listen the the Russian music. Also loved the way Ivan Reebrof sang some Russian Ballads. I guess that is how I got into classical music. Of course Biesady are great tunes.
Jim
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Post by pieter on Sept 7, 2006 15:43:23 GMT -7
Jim,
Luckily I was forced by my parents to listen to classical music on sundays when they played their Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Bach, and ofcourse Chopin records. They are of the classic generation. Afterwards as an adult I am greatful to them, because they also introduced me into the Russians, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov. They really loved and love Rachmaninov! And I love his music to, the first and second piano concerto's. Ofcourse I was a terrible child and teenager who was more into that "Noise", Pop-music. But the older you get the more you enjoy classical music. I bought Chopin cd's for my parents, friends and myself in the Chopin museum, and every now and I sit quietly and listen to that wonderful cd, an International Chopin Piano Konkurs in 2005 in Warsaw, played by Japanese, German, Polish, Chinese, Korean, French and Russian pianists. I am always suprised how well the Asians play this "Western" music, the most parts are played by the Japanese, and it sounds wonderful.
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Post by rdywenur on Sept 7, 2006 16:59:20 GMT -7
And no one mentions the Bible the all time classic. I do not remember my first book but I do remember at about 4th or 5th grade discovering a library card. I was over my girlfriends and asked her where she got so many books and she told me from the library. Immediately I got my card and read every book in the children's section the librarian had to move me to the adult section and stirred me to books I could take out there. I am still fascinated by books, magazines, etc, yet I don't believe I have ever read any "great books" (and by great I am meaning the typical all time classics) I even managed to miss the books that are required reading for English class.
In reference to the Nutcracker... I took my nieces when they were quite young to see the Nutcracker Ballet and one of my nieces had that on her Christmas wish list a few years ago so I guess that came from me.
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Post by Jaga on Sept 7, 2006 18:14:29 GMT -7
I actully do not remember the first book I have read. I was not a good student in my primary grades, hated school and reading was very difficult for me. I missed my mother and would run away from school the first week. I think it was fairy tales that were my good start in reading. They were so interesting that one story was good for another. Once able to read well enough, then it was auto books, construction books on bridges and mines. How things were designed. We also had those thin ladies paper books, I liked the stories as they were interesting untill the elders found out and took them away, little boys were not meant to read such. Other then school books, at the moment I am not sure what first thick book I had first read. Charles Maybe brothers Grimm? My aunts from Silesia always told me stories based on their book!
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Post by Jaga on Sept 7, 2006 18:15:34 GMT -7
I remember "Awantura o Basiê". I emember reading it at night, under the duvet with a torch. It was so fascinating I couldn't put it down. I have always loved reading - my parents blame it for my poor eyesight. Who cares when a good book is in hand? I remember vaquely the old movie based on this book also and it was very charming!
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Post by bescheid on Sept 7, 2006 20:05:05 GMT -7
{{Maybe brothers Grimm? My aunts from Silesia always told me stories based on their book!}}
Jaga
You are always two steps in front of me, yes Grimms Fairytales{Märchen}. The stories were so interesting filled with Kings, magic, nasty old witches, good people, lucky stupid boys,Hänsel und Gretel, Rumpelstilychen. It was just wonderful. I cauld live their adventures in my mind whilst reading. Reading simply introduced a vast new world I had never imagined up until then.
At the moment, I can not remember the names {there were several} of some of the smaller ladies paper books {they were the size of small magizines} they had interesting stories.
I was 5 years of age to learn to read then, this and numbers, letters and writing. We had also arithmatic, I hated that as I have always had problem with figuring numbers.
I wore short pants then with long dark grey woolen stockens. They came up above the knees and there was a draw string at the top to loop tie them so they would stay up. The girls wore also the same as it was cold. I was one of the smaller of the boys, and had blond hair then. Several of the girls were older and with their long legs, it was impossible to out run them. They liked to mess up your hair before school and cause problems. The older girl always smelled fishy, I think their family was poor. she was very polite and I secretly admired her, but she was older and taller then I. Some times she would stare with a small smile, caught her doing that several times. The girls always wore dresses then. That was the first of many schools I had attended. Hated school then.
Boy, that was a long time in the past
Charles
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