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harmonium.ro 
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Posted: May 27 2011 at 12:02 |
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I had already read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky by age 11....
Of course when I read it again about 10 years later it was SO much better....  |
Same here! Fifth grade. But I don't think I've missed anything by reading it so early. Karamazov Brothers, now that's different...
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Posted: May 27 2011 at 11:48 |
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I didn't start reading 'real' books until high school, where I was first introduced to Animal Farm.
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The T
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Posted: May 27 2011 at 11:45 |
I had already read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky by age 11....
Of course when I read it again about 10 years later it was SO much better.... |
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 20:23 |
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Although I work in the technical field, my interest was always music and literature... as a child and now.
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 16:44 |
^ I loved Call Of The Wild when I was in Junior School, and Emil and the Detectives and Mary Norton's Borrowers books. Oh dear, it seems I was more of a reader than I remember.  ...  ... Nah, I didn't get seriously into books until I was 15 or 16, from then on I would be reading several books a week up until fairly recently.
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 16:09 |
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5th grade I was reading LotR, Call of the Wild... books that I can still read that are literary and worth while. but also Redwall and Hardy Boys and things that are not worth going back to at all.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 09:56 |
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I misunderstood the ???
I really enjoyed the Hobbit when I first read it. Now that I've read it since then I realize how different it is from LotR. It's really a book to read when you're a child.
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Dean
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 09:54 |
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
Dean wrote:
5th Grade??? Wiki tells me that's 10-11 year-olds... I was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs and H G Wells then, but not much else aside from DC & Marvel comics and an ancient set of The Children's Encyclopedia by Arthur Mee that I used to sit and read for hours on end. |
I first read Lord of the Rings then. It's not that early of an age for real books.
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No it isn't, (the "???" was my ignorance of American "grade" ages, not exclamation of the age itself  ), I'm sure lots of 10 & 11 year olds read lots of real books, as I said, I wasn't a reader at that age, I read the Hobbit in my first tyear of high school but just didn't like it enough to want to read LotR.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 08:24 |
Dean wrote:
5th Grade??? Wiki tells me that's 10-11 year-olds... I was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs and H G Wells then, but not much else aside from DC & Marvel comics and an ancient set of The Children's Encyclopedia by Arthur Mee that I used to sit and read for hours on end. |
I first read Lord of the Rings then. It's not that early of an age for real books.
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 05:18 |
Personally, the sciences went right over my head - just couldn't get them (still can't, to be honest - my brain must work in a different manner), all except for mathematics, where I appear for some reason to have a natural aptitude.
No, my real loves at school were Art, Drama, English Literature - lessons I actually looked forward to 
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 03:37 |
aginor wrote:
I can answer quite well on all the topics exept math, were i suck donky balls.
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Well it's certainly a novel way of doing maths but not one I'd consider because it is a binary system.
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Icarium
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 03:25 |
I am quite eclectic when it comes to wisdom i know stuff from many different topics, that is why I do it so well in 5 oit out of 6 Trvial Pursuit I can answer quite well on all the topics exept math, were i suck donky balls.
I can much about geographie, history, sports, arts and literature, endertainment, science and nature
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 02:47 |
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A slight preference for science and maths.
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Posted: May 26 2011 at 02:28 |
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Arts. I've always loved music, and though I guess I disliked the structure of art classes, I like visual art. And I do like and respect drama a lot.
I hated chemistry in school and no doubt would have hated physics if I had to take it. Too abstract. Biology I liked. Zoology I liked most. Animals. There right there, easy to visualize and know. Ecosystems are easy to visualize. Atoms, forces, chemical structures...not so much.
Now, I can appreciate them somewhat, but I can't say I like them or really care about the research that goes into them, except for it's practical purposes. I guess that makes me like 99% of the world then in that respect.
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The T
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Posted: May 25 2011 at 23:02 |
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A little bit of everything. I was never well defined in my likes, which ended up bringing problems when time came to choose a career...
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Dean
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Posted: May 25 2011 at 18:10 |
5th Grade??? Wiki tells me that's 10-11 year-olds... I was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs and H G Wells then, but not much else aside from DC & Marvel comics and an ancient set of The Children's Encyclopedia by Arthur Mee that I used to sit and read for hours on end.
Edited by Dean - May 25 2011 at 18:11
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Dean
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Posted: May 25 2011 at 18:00 |
Science, maths and drawing. Through most of my school and college years I had problems with words, but numbers I could understand - they made sense to me so science was something I could simply do because it was just applied maths (except biology, which I didn't care too much for).
I guess it was the technical aspects that attracted me to drawing, I wasn't much of a painter back then, (I came 2nd in a painting competition when I was 8, the boy who won first prize had just coloured-in one of my discarded drawings... that amused me at the time and it still does 46 years later), I certainly was not a reader (I didn't become a voracious [great word] reader that until I was a teenager) and I hated having to write anything, but I loved to draw structure and spaces between things - I remember a teacher once chastised me for using a ruler, set-square, compasses and worse of all, an eraser in an art lesson -to me it seemed silly not to. I could have become a draughtsman in later life if I hadn't discovered you could mess around with electronics and get paid for it, but I was just too messy and scruffy to work in a drawing office - what was supposed to be a pristine technical drawing looked more like a charcoal sketch by the time I was finished with it ...
Edited by Dean - May 25 2011 at 18:01
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Posted: May 25 2011 at 17:13 |
Literature, history, geography etc
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:51 |
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The arts no doubt. Except I do enjoy social studies. I am still a child, btw.  |
It's more about you as you were before being a teenager. Pat also pointed that out.
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Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:50 |
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
I think most of us liked just about everything. I was a voracious reader of fiction back then. But surely there was a preference in some direction?
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It's hard to remember if I really preferred any over the others but I'll vote arts anyways because my dream back then was to become an author.
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