reader participation time

[nibot]

What were your favourite toys when growing up? (Now?) (How did they influence you?)

Which were your favourite books?

Legos? What did you make?

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[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Legos and the Commodore 64. I liked to build spaceships of increasing complexity, throw them down the stairs, and rebuild them. I learned to make them more and more durable as time went on, reusing the designs that lasted and recycling the ones that did not.

Ender's Game and Frederik Pohl's Gateway series. I read each of them at least a dozen times. Usually just see one out of the corner of my eye, open it somewhere in the middle, read through to the end and then from the beginning to where I started.