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To: IronJack
"There are few I would rate as "potentially life-changing," but Shel Silverstein? Dr. Seuss?"

It changed my life. Green Eggs and Ham was the first book I owned and the first book I learned to read by myself. Go Dog Go was the second and the Cat in the Hat was the third. The love of reading was instilled in me very young. I could read the first grade reader Dick and Jane, front to cover the first day of class. By the time I was in High School I averaged a book a week for pleasure. Now I average a book every three days. and it all started with Dr. Seuss Green Eggs and Ham! Definitely a life changer for me.

39 posted on 05/01/2016 5:41:32 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Then I would venture to say that it was less the book itself than the act of reading that changed your life. After all, what life-changing message does one derive from “Green Eggs and Ham?” That one can refuse to eat them with a mouse? That SamIAm does not care for that particular culinary oddity? Or is there some deeper social allegory I’ve missed all these years?


40 posted on 05/01/2016 6:09:08 AM PDT by IronJack
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