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10 months agoI mean I was ten so it’s less of a non reader and more that I just didn’t read unless school related.
But when I was ten or eleven my brother was babysitting me after school and asked if I was bored and to grab a book from his bookshelf.
Since that day Winter Warriors by David Gemmell has been my favourite book and he my favourite author. I have read that book upwards of forty times so far and he is the only author that I own every book of.
Tolkien.
I have three copies of LoTR, one was the first version I read and the Return of the King is falling apart and while I don’t think they are anything fancy I have also rarely seen other copies of the same edition as it.
So I went out to buy new copies to become my reading copies and instead bought them and an illustrated edition too. I don’t play to ever read the illustrated editions in the hope they might become worth something.
Then the most ashamed multiple copy book is Roverandom. I got a copy when I was a wee lad and then a few years back I saw it for sale at Big W and it was such a wee cute book that I impulse bought it.
There are probably a few others that I have accidentally bought dupes of because I have had to put all of my books in my wardrobe so I can’t really see them.
Oh and Winter Warriors by David Gemmell. I have the copy my ex wife bought me when we were still in highschool and is the only actual display of love from her I have kept because it is my favourite book. But I first read it in tradeback form so when I found one for $3 I bought it for nostalgia’s sake. I just need someone who smokes winnie blues to read it for me so it will smell like my brother’s copy too.