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Robert A. Heinlein
Sami, I like it. "Start them young," that's the way too do it. They say that a child learns more in the first 7 years of their lives than they do other wise. It's really a good series. I found it at a homeschool convention, and not own the whole series except that the "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" has a few pages in the back missing. My brother has it though, and so I got to read it.My name, lol! Early 2000's had a male Jack Russell named Sammy. Created the name then with the feminine version, lol! And I think it's great to recognize Narnia with 'the magnificent'! I've started reading those to my 17 month old grandson; he doesn't have much of an attention span for it right now, but start 'em young I say!
My favorite author? Not sure. I have 5 fiction authors who's books top my list, though. 'Til We Have Faces" CS Lewis, "Siddhartha" Hermann Hesse, "The Brothers Karamozov" Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Bread and Wine" Ignazio Silone, and "The Last Temptation of Christ" by Nikos Karantzakis.
Non-fiction I read a lot of biographies. Kerns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" (on Lincoln's cabinet), Robert K. Masse on Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, Peter Irons "A People's History of the Supreme Court", "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose, "Battle Cry of Freedom" James M. McPherson. "Nixon, Volume I: The Education of a Politician 1913:1962" Stephen Ambrose (haven't read Vol 2 yet, but it's probably just as good). I could go on, but won't.
Currently reading: (just for the fun of it!) The Watergate Transcripts (really, just the transcripts), The Quran (everybody ought to read source material and not get caught up in this or that guys argument about what it says -- read it for yourself, I say), The Complete Works of HG Wells (not the best writer but interesting ideas anyway), The History of Philosophty (vol 1) by Fr Copeland.
I, too, read a lot. Manage to get through 2-3 books a week in the summer, less in the winter as I still have to work...sigh.
AJ