I’d probably be too busy making babies to guarantee 2-3 would survive to help me slop the hogs.

I read LOTR to my son, having last read it in 1990 or so. I’d completely forgotten about all the elf poetry

Harlan Ellison’s “Deathbird Stories.” I was a nice episcopal teenager and I was in no way prepared for that level of aggressive blasphemy. I look back on it as one of the most impactful (and most favorite) books in my life