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Morningnite!! My first big book was Papillon, when I was around 12 my brother had read it and left his copy at home between semesters at college.... I remember looking at it and thinking how thick it was at the time.... None the less I picked it up and couldnt stop.... This led to the Dune trilogy (another brotherly castoff)... The first in the trilogy was as thick but no longer as intimidating, many years later Dune the movie was a bit of a let down... at least for me. Trilogies seemed to be the thing. Tolkien's Hobbit and Hitchikers Guide followed. Waited until 1979 to read 1984.
I read 1984 in the late 70s early 80s, BUT I have never watched the movie LOL I don't know why... something I read or heard about it
I have several favorite books that I carry around in soft cover and hard cover,
The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton It's not my usual preference since I prefer the blood and guts in horror, but it's really one of my favorite stories because it has such funny and endearing characters in it.
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon is a monstrously huge book that I keep because it is always large enough to get me
through a flight to and from wherever I am going and I like the apocalyptic stories best =] I can't remembr what others I have... but I know I have a 34GB of eBooks, so I just take the tablet when I am going anywhere.