> At any rate, rather than accepting the
generalizations I've seen posted to
> this group, I'm curious about your ages and reading
history.
>
> Teri
Born pre-`58 (1954), I grew up in a household where science
fiction and mystery books were always around - - a family of
avid readers. My pop
<still> calls ANALOG magazine ASTOUNDING, since he's
been reading it that long. Plowed through all the big figures
in the SF field (Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein and the others) as
well as a bunch of tea-cozy mystery stuff that was lying
around the house when I was in grade school. The mysteries I
read because my sister had accumulated a bunch of Agatha
Christie pb titles. Don't remember precisely how I stumbled
onto Hammett & Co. but I suspect that it was on account
of watching old crime films on tv with my Mom on Saturday
afternoons and realizing that I liked Houston's version of
THE MALTESE FALCON a whole lot better than some British
drawing room thing. Eventually when I looked up Hammett's
novels and stories, a neon sign above my head began blinking,
saying THIS IS IT. This was when I was in my teens. I, of
course, have never looked back.
Bruce T. =
btownley@sirius.com
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