{"id":61,"date":"2016-10-10T11:59:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2016-10-10T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T19:04:07","slug":"moby-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rahulsawant.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/10\/moby-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Moby Books made me the bookworm I am today."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got through reading The Gunslinger<\/em> by Stephen King. And with that I’m done with 16 books of my 2016 list. I have accepted that I am the quintessential bookworm. Curling in my bed with a good read and a good drink, trumps getting smashed in bars with friends any day. I think enduring habits like these come from special places in our childhood. These moments are sacred. Treasured.<\/span><\/p>\n

My pivotal period was from when I was 8. It was at the home of my oldest pal. They had over a hundred books housed within many, many bookshelves. I think his mom was trying hard to get them to start reading. Instead, she had me over every single evening. I would religiously spend hours in their room conquering the \u2018book vault\u2019, one tome at a time. In these books were miniature novels called Moby Books.<\/span><\/p>\n

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These books were a thing of beauty. The language was easy, \u00a0and each page came with a detailed illustration. My first introduction to these novels was Moby Dick. Within a span of a few chapters, I fell in love with characters like Queequeg, Starbucks and Stubb and imagined myself a daring voyager ready to set sail and conquer the seven seas. There came a time when I’d barely pause when one book ended and another began. Within the span of a few months, I had gone through forty eight of these classic novels.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve grown older, but the nostalgia persists. Now I find myself slowly but surely building up the library that nurtured my fantasy as a child. It also helps to have a wife who grew up without reading any of the children classics. This is my way of introducing her to my childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

List of Titles:<\/span>
\n<\/span>Catalog No.\/Title\/Author\/Publishing Date<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
4501<\/span><\/td>\nWizard of Oz, The<\/span><\/td>\nBaum, L. Frank<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4502<\/span><\/td>\nSherlock Holmes and the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles<\/span><\/td>\nDoyle, A. Conan<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4503<\/span><\/td>\nAdventures of Robinson Crusoe, The<\/span><\/td>\nDefoe, Daniel<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4504<\/span><\/td>\nBlack Beauty<\/span><\/td>\nSewell, Anna<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4505<\/span><\/td>\nKidnapped<\/span><\/td>\nStevenson, Robert Louis<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4506<\/span><\/td>\nConnecticut Yankee in King Arthur\u2019s Court, A<\/span><\/td>\nTwain, Mark<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4507<\/span><\/td>\n20,000 Leagues Under the Sea<\/span><\/td>\nVerne, Jules<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4508<\/span><\/td>\nHeidi<\/span><\/td>\nSpyri, Johanna<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4509<\/span><\/td>\nThree Musketeers, The<\/span><\/td>\nDumas, Alexandre<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4510<\/span><\/td>\nTreasure Island<\/span><\/td>\nStevenson, Robert Louis<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4511<\/span><\/td>\nLittle Women<\/span><\/td>\nAlcott, Louisa May<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4512<\/span><\/td>\nAround the World in 80 Days<\/span><\/td>\nVerne, Jules<\/span><\/td>\n1977<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4513<\/span><\/td>\nMerry Adventures of Robin Hood, The<\/span><\/td>\nPyle, Howard<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4514<\/span><\/td>\nAdventures of Tom Sawyer, The<\/span><\/td>\nTwain, Mark<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4515<\/span><\/td>\nCall of the Wild, The<\/span><\/td>\nLondon, Jack<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4516<\/span><\/td>\nAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, The<\/span><\/td>\nTwain, Mark<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4517<\/span><\/td>\nOliver Twist<\/span><\/td>\nDickens, Charles<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4518<\/span><\/td>\nDavid Copperfield<\/span><\/td>\nDickens, Charles<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4519<\/span><\/td>\nCount of Monte Cristo, The<\/span><\/td>\nDumas, Alexandre<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4520<\/span><\/td>\nMoby Dick<\/span><\/td>\nMelville, Herman<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4521<\/span><\/td>\nLast of the Mohicans, The<\/span><\/td>\nCooper, James Fenimore<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4522<\/span><\/td>\nMutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty<\/span><\/td>\nBligh, William<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4523<\/span><\/td>\nOregon Trail, The<\/span><\/td>\nParkman, Francis<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4524<\/span><\/td>\nTales of Mystery and Terror<\/span><\/td>\nPoe, Edgar Allan<\/span><\/td>\n1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4525<\/span><\/td>\nBen-Hur<\/span><\/td>\nWallace, Lew<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4526<\/span><\/td>\nAdventures of Sherlock Holmes, The<\/span><\/td>\nDoyle, A. Conan<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4527<\/span><\/td>\nSwiss Family Robinson, The<\/span><\/td>\nWyss, Johann<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4528<\/span><\/td>\nJourney to the Center of the Earth, A<\/span><\/td>\nVerne, Jules<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4529<\/span><\/td>\nWar of the Worlds<\/span><\/td>\nWells, H.G.<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4530<\/span><\/td>\nTime Machine, The<\/span><\/td>\nWells, H.G.<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4531<\/span><\/td>\nStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The<\/span><\/td>\nStevenson, Robert Louis<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4532<\/span><\/td>\nTale of Two Cities, A<\/span><\/td>\nDickens, Charles<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4533<\/span><\/td>\nMan in the Iron Mask, The<\/span><\/td>\nDumas, Alexandre<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4534<\/span><\/td>\nGreat Expectations<\/span><\/td>\nDickens, Charles<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4535<\/span><\/td>\nPrince and the Pauper, The<\/span><\/td>\nTwain, Mark<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4536<\/span><\/td>\nCaptain Courageous<\/span><\/td>\nKipling, Rudyard<\/span><\/td>\n1983<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4537<\/span><\/td>\nRed Badge of Courage<\/span><\/td>\nCrane, Stephen<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4538<\/span><\/td>\nFrankenstein<\/span><\/td>\nShelley, Mary<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4539<\/span><\/td>\nKing Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table<\/span><\/td>\nPyle, Howard<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4540<\/span><\/td>\nJungle Book, The<\/span><\/td>\nKipling, Rudyard<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4541<\/span><\/td>\nHunchback of Notre Dame, The<\/span><\/td>\nHugo, Victor<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4542<\/span><\/td>\nWind in the Willows, The<\/span><\/td>\nGrahame, Kenneth<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4543<\/span><\/td>\nGulliver\u2019s Travels<\/span><\/td>\nSwift, Jonathan<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4544<\/span><\/td>\nInvisible Man, The<\/span><\/td>\nWells, H.G.<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4545<\/span><\/td>\nLegend of Sleepy Hollow, The<\/span><\/td>\nIrving, Washington<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4546<\/span><\/td>\nRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm<\/span><\/td>\nWiggin, Kate Douglas<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4547<\/span><\/td>\nAlice in Wonderland<\/span><\/td>\nCarroll, Lewis<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4548<\/span><\/td>\nPride and Prejudice<\/span><\/td>\nAusten, Jane<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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