When I was a child, my favorite book was... You're kidding?!

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The Autobon society guides for birds and snakes. I once wrote a book report on each in the 2nd grade and was given an F b/c the teacher would not believe that I had read them

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My son read the melways (an australian road map) from top to bottom as a youngster and if you said a name of a town he could tell you what page that town could be found. He also was a big fan of Paul Jennings books.

I read when I was young and still do: Encyclopedias, calenders, magazines, newspapers, non-fiction books, some sci-fi, textbooks, and all signs.

I read, and still reading, encyclopedia, dictionnary, phone books, TV schedule, instructions manuals, data books and road maps..., just for the pleasure of it ! I don't read anything else except for my job (telecom books !).

Roald Dahl was the writer for me, and still is!

I used to read anything and everything I could get my hands on as a kid.. my favourites were James Herriot "All Things Bright and Beautiful", and "The Hobbit".

Calvin and Hobbes...

Calvin and Hobbes taught me to read...

Righteous...

encyclopedias, by their nature, are vauge and lack information.

The internet houses much more if you know how to wade though the garbage. Even better, find someone whose aleady done it, and learn from their mistakes.

My faviorte book of late was "dont make me think", it was about webdesign, but brought to light a very good point about how people think when looking at things. It was explained in a way that compaired general human insight with other ideas, sheding alot of light.

Age 4- Dinosaur encyclopedia
Age 8- Dictionary
Age 12- Encyclopedias
Age 13- Physics

Yay! I found someone else that likes Anne McCaffrey, that is one of the my biggest obsessions and has been since I was 13-14, now almost 32 and her and Anne Rice are really the only two authors I read. I also play Mushes based on the "Dragonriders of Pern" and "Crystal Singer Trilogy."

I would read any encyclopedia or dictionary, and the phone book was something I used to read frequently. Books about vampires, psycology and maps, when I got older. Don't remember exactly what age.

Me and my mom rented an appartement with furniture the summer I was 15, and it was like heaven, the owner was a tidy architect, and had old encyclopedias, and big arcitectural books with lots of facts and pictures of design detailes...

My grandad had really old set of encyclopedia and I would spend hours looking through them as a kid. I also used to love books on the paranormal.

encyclopedias when I was 7, 8, 9... focused on the snakes and animals in general, but mainly snakes. Also the maps... and military insignia and flags of countries.

Still love encyclopedias and dictionaries and old magazines when I can find them.
Also the inner sleeves of old LPs.

My favourite book as a child was this book of science experiments, it had lots of pictures explaining how they worked.

My book craze began a lot later than most Aspies I suspect simply because until I was about 14, I was under the general impression (for some odd reason) that all books were stupid story books, and I found those incredibly boring. And so for many childhood years, I absolutely hated reading and indulged myself in my old movies collection instead.

Then in my 8th grade and early high school years I discovered 1. Psychology books, 2. Poetry books, and 3. the Classics.

So in my freshman year of high school, I read my mother's book Ego States Theory and Therapy which was an up-and-coming hypothesis on Dissociation (not necessarily in it's "disorder" form). I even read it before my mother had a chance to. Hehe.

And those are still the main categories of books I buy and read. Excepting of course for the interesting facts books, like my couple of books on vampirism in history, and the history of the devil, and a book on pirates, etc.

Oh, and I also now buy books on Paleoanthropology. Forgot that late-rising category.

And speaking of book buying, I just bought Gray's Anatomy yesterday and have been skimming through it. Highly interesting.

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