05-28-2015, 11:11 AM
(05-28-2015, 09:05 AM)Tiger Teeth Wrote:
![[Image: Playboy-January.jpg]](http://www.playboyenterprises.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Playboy-January.jpg)
^ That is a classic, and yes we really did read them in addition to looking at the pics. Playboy always had some good writers and I assume it still does. Discovered it when I was about 10. The writing was better than Time or People (news and pop culture magazines with big circulations at the time) and it covered the same issues of news and popular culture. And, of course the photography was amazing. Even as a kid you got that the girls in there were a fantasy, but more importantly Playboy taught you it was ok to fantasize, when much of the world around you was telling you that was wrong. The monthly interviews were almost always excellent.
Before discovering Playboy, I read the sports page cover to cover from the time I was in first grade, and my favorite books at that time were probably "The Three Investigators" series. Hitchcock (the movie director) published them and I think there were several authors. They were sort of pulp for kids I guess, similar to the Hardy Boys mysteries but I always found the writing in The Three Investigators far superior. I also love sports biographies as a kid.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
