Dear 2 Kool,
For every ‘reader’, there is an author’s ‘voice’, that will ‘sing’ for that ‘reader’.
When I was in elementary and junior high school, the authors were E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, Dr. Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and then, Ian Fleming, Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Shakespeare.
Different times, different events, do shape what we might read, too.
I was a G.I. brat, living on-base, when that damn Castro was installing missiles and pointing them at me.
For every ‘reader’, there is an author’s ‘voice’, that will ‘sing’ for that ‘reader’.
Very true - Some of my favorites would be LeCarre, Flaubert, Dumas (pere), and a recent discovery Thomas Hardy. I also like Chandler very much. I’ve recently taken another whack at Salinger but reading him is a bit like watching a car wreck - equal bits of fascination and horror.
I was a G.I. brat, living on-base, when that damn Castro was installing missiles and pointing them at me.
I was 6 years old at the time and blissfully unaware I guess. I remember the JFK assassination very well the following year.