[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I developed the habit when I was a youngster, going through some difficult circumstances. It was my bound, rectangular ‘escape hatch’.

My first book was Tom Sawyer. The second was Huckleberry Finn. After that, it was Tomoe Gozen...

...and every Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian books in the series - - I just could not stop...

[Tax-chick]

We got a set of 40 or so old sf paperbacks at a yard sale last fall. Burroughs’ Tarzan and space fiction, Conan, a couple other series. Daughter came home and asked for money to buy “a few,” but my husband gave her a 20, and she came home with the whole box. Claimed it was a misunderstanding ...

Great vocabulary in those old books - the authors assumed the readers knew some words!