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Broken_Zeus 09/07/19 1:04:28 AM #212:	ParanoidObsessive posted... The Animorph books didn't exist until I was already in college (and the show obvious came even later than that). I have zero nostalgia for or interest in them as a concept. I can't say that I've ever really let my age get in the way of stuff that interests me. ParanoidObsessive posted... It's sort of like the Goosebumps books. For a large portion of the Internet community, those are like a core part of childhood experience. For me, they came out after I already had a driver's license, and I was already reading stuff by Dean Koontz and Stephen King. By the time the first Goosebumps book had come out, I'd already read The Dark Half, Needful Things, and The Stand. Honestly, if you're too old for Goosebumps, you're also too old for Koontz =p And, to the best of my knowledge, I had read King prior to Stine... or, at least, some of his novels prior to Goosebumps. ParanoidObsessive posted... It's part of why, to this day, if someone mentions RL Stine, I don't immediately think Goosebumps as much as I think the CYOA books he wrote in the 80s: I think I first became aware of him with Fear Street. While I had apparently read at least some of his CYOAs, I hadn't associated his name as being anything significant at that point -- he was just another author in the series. ParanoidObsessive posted... It was one of the series that, when Harry Potter first started hitting big, literate people were like "Oh yeah, The Dark is Rising is that series that JK Rowling stole a bunch of her ideas from." Unfortunately, because it's older and a bit more obscure, and because Harry Potter tripped over its dick into global fame, now annoying Harry Potter fans just accuse everything else of stealing ideas from Harry Potter - even stuff like The Dark is Rising or the Unseen University in Discworld that existed years (if not decades) before JK Rowling wrote a single line. Yeah, well, I'm sure all of them just ripped off Tolkien somehow! ParanoidObsessive posted... I rank all of my sci-fi/fantasy books on my shelves in what I consider to be order of quality - the best series up top, slowing getting progressively less great as you go downward. Keeping in mind I've probably got about 30 years worth of books on those shelves (as I literally NEVER throw books away, I never sold any of my college textbooks back, and have maybe lost or irreparably damaged maybe a half-dozen tops over the entire span of my life - so I've still got books from when I was 10) We could probably start a hoarders club. Honestly, a good chunk of the books that have left my possession -- other than as gifts or something that became a gift by virtue of being lent but not returned -- have been by things like natural disaster (Hurricane Andrew, for instance), losses during moving, irreparable damage, etc. Granted, there's a lot of stuff I just pick up that I probably should expunge from my collection but... idk, I have a hard time getting rid of things. --- Gamefaqs cannot handle my #BrokenBrilliance <cite>Broken_Zeus posted [p:927091147] in Valley of ... [t:77923465]...</cite> <quote>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>The Animorph books didn't exist until I was already in college (and the show obvious came even later than that). I have zero nostalgia for or interest in them as a concept.</quote> I can't say that I've ever really let my age get in the way of stuff that interests me. ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote> It's sort of like the Goosebumps books. For a large portion of the Internet community, those are like a core part of childhood experience. For me, they came out after I already had a driver's license, and I was already reading stuff by Dean Koontz and Stephen King. By the time the first Goosebumps book had come out, I'd already read The Dark Half, Needful Things, and The Stand.</quote> Honestly, if you're too old for Goosebumps, you're also too old for Koontz =p And, to the best of my knowledge, I had read King prior to Stine... or, at least, some of his novels prior to Goosebumps. ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>It's part of why, to this day, if someone mentions RL Stine, I don't immediately think Goosebumps as much as I think the CYOA books he wrote in the 80s:</quote> I think I first became aware of him with Fear Street. While I had apparently read at least some of his CYOAs, I hadn't associated his name as being anything significant at that point -- he was just another author in the series. ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>It was one of the series that, when Harry Potter first started hitting big, literate people were like "Oh yeah, The Dark is Rising is that series that JK Rowling stole a bunch of her ideas from." Unfortunately, because it's older and a bit more obscure, and because Harry Potter tripped over its dick into global fame, now annoying Harry Potter fans just accuse everything else of stealing ideas from Harry Potter - even stuff like The Dark is Rising or the Unseen University in Discworld that existed years (if not decades) before JK Rowling wrote a single line. </quote> Yeah, well, I'm sure all of them just ripped off Tolkien somehow! ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote> I rank all of my sci-fi/fantasy books on my shelves in what I consider to be order of quality - the best series up top, slowing getting progressively less great as you go downward. Keeping in mind I've probably got about 30 years worth of books on those shelves (as I literally NEVER throw books away, I never sold any of my college textbooks back, and have maybe lost or irreparably damaged maybe a half-dozen tops over the entire span of my life - so I've still got books from when I was 10)</quote> We could probably start a hoarders club. Honestly, a good chunk of the books that have left my possession -- other than as gifts or something that became a gift by virtue of being lent but not returned -- have been by things like natural disaster (Hurricane Andrew, for instance), losses during moving, irreparable damage, etc. Granted, there's a lot of stuff I just pick up that I probably should expunge from my collection but... idk, I have a hard time getting rid of things. --- Gamefaqs cannot handle my #BrokenBrilliance</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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