Home with the chicken pox, i climbed on my dad's rolltop desk, and got down the biggest one...
- June 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM by CrystalRenee34
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I was 8 yrs old. Itchy and covered with calamine lotion, i got the huge hardback book down and settled back on the noggahide couch. My dad used to say, "Two dozen Noggas died for this couch". LOL! Anyway, i opened it to the first page, and immediately became engrossed in the story. I was entertained by the detail and character development. I read the entire novel during the week home from school. I haven't stopped reading since that first book, "The Shining" by Stephen King.
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Ha! I read a lot of books that I probably should have waited a few years to read! That book still scares the crap out of me! Did you have nightmares or what?
LOL! I love your button avatar!!! LMAO!
I didn't have nightmares, amazingly! But when i saw the movie and Jack Nicholson and whats-her-name (Olive Oil in Popeye), brought those characters to life on screen, i was truly terrified!
I love that book!! I agree, not good for an 8 year old! The Stand is another fav of mine!!
I read "Where the red fern grows" and got to the end and the dogs die. I cried for weeks after. If I even thought of the book, I welled up with tears!
AWW! Steph. I haven't read "Where the red fern grows". I won't now, for sure! I also read a series of books kinda like Nancy Drew mysteries, but it was Trixie Belden.
"Two dozen Noggas died for this couch".... ROFL!!! I love Stephen King but I haven't read all his books yet (my FAVE is "Thinner"!) ... I'm a major Dean Koontz fan, myself. ;-D
My husband says something similar about some naugahide chairs we have "I wonder how many nogga's died for this chair" *lol*
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CrystalRenee34 Jun. 3, 2008 at 2:41 PM