2016-01-17
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So a long, long time ago, so long ago, I can hardly remember it.
When I was a wee lad, I used to read a lot of fiction books.
I don't really read much fiction anymore these days, but it used to be like a hundred percent of what I read.
I learned a lot of lessons from those books.
I started out with the Goosebumps books.
Man, I remember when I was like seven years old and they made a Goosebumps TV show and I hated it.
I wrote R.L. Stein in Angry Letter and Crayon.
True story about how the artistic integrity of the books is not upheld in the TV show.
He actually wrote me back.
Good guy, R.L. Stein.
Anyway, I used to read Goosebumps, graduated to the Hardy Boys franchise,
and after that I started reading Mark Twain pretty heavily.
I read all the classics.
I sort of made him my hero.
I exalted Mark Twain in my head as this quasi-deity that wrote books.