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(...) Why is this a "debate" topic? Seems to me personal preference is just that, preference, not a debatable thing. So this thread belongs in .fun. Can we debate that? :-) (...) I would go with the Heinlein juveniles as a group. "Have spacesuit, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) favorite (...) The (...) fun (...) Another Narnia fan. Haven't gotten past the first book - but I have the rest sitting on a shelf. Just always seems like there is something else I'd rather read. Bruce (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Bridge (...) very (...) I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my son a few years ago. It was okay, but that was about it. The Hobbit was much more to my taste. Where the Wild Things Are is a great illustrated book. Loved it. I've (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The darn thing is I think I read it when I was in 6th grade, but I don't remember anything beyond it involved a tesseract and that it began with the classic Snoopy line: It was a dark and stormy night. Guess I'll just have to read it again. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not sure on the deer populations for where you live, but in many areas of the eastern US, hunters should be taking at least four dear to keep the pops to reasonable numbers. (...) While hunter's have fostered several great conservation (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I always enjoyed the AWrinkle In Time trilogy by Madeleine L'Engle. It's sort of Sci-Fi, but without a lot of tech stuff. ~Mark (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Great subject! My favorite kids books (many I still have from when I was a kid)... Narnia, fist and foremost, especially The Last Battle all the Swallows and Amazons books Many Rudyard Kipling books, esp Puck of Pook's Hill (*still* gives me (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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some of my favorites: Bridge to Terabithia - by Katherine Paterson Where the Wild Things Are - by Maurice Sendak The Giving Tree - by Shel Silverstein I also liked the Chronicles of Narnia.. but i haven't read them in ages. Bridge to Terabithia and (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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All those strange permutations of debate based off the Harry Potter books becoming a Lego line. Which leads into... The actual Harry Potter books. My wife bought it for my son (9) to read, but he seems to have stopped. Having some time to kill, I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'll agree-- I've been quietly lurking around the past few weeks ANYWAY, but this debate has certainly intreuged me... Just got a bit much to wade through... From the outset, I'll give my general feeling... I don't mind eating animals. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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