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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The identify that story/book thread: Home of the gas pump boy
 
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Metaline
Aug 20, 2003

Sanford posted:

It is strongly, strongly tied in my mind to another story about a kid getting a job making… a model dinosaur, I think, for a museum. At the end it comes to life and attacks his bully. The two stories might have been a double audio cassette thing but at the time I was reading/listening to 20+ library books a week so I might be falsely conflating them.
This reminds me a lot of The Dinosaur in the Swamp from Southern Fried Rat!

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Metaline
Aug 20, 2003

A Proper Uppercut posted:

Just remembered I posted this like 10 years ago and had no luck, maybe someone has some idea now?

I've got one I read when I was a young teenager. I can't remember whether it was a short story or a novel. It was sci-fi and I can really only remember one detail about it. This guy took off from earth on a ship that would be traveling at light speed. At first he would recieve messages from his wife once a week or so, but as he increased up to light speed and time got all screwy he would be getting them every second or something like that. That's really all I can remember. Anyone have any ideas?

If you reverse genders, it sounds just like The Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike.

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Metaline
Aug 20, 2003

A Proper Uppercut posted:

Holy poo poo, I think that's it, I remember the cover! I have no idea why I could have picked this up, 10 year old me probably saw it at the library and thought the cover was cool. Been looking for this for 10+ years, thanks!

Booo no ebook available!


While we're at, after sharing this freak out with my sister who also freaked out, she asked me this one which I don't really remember-

"It's a Illustrated Kids story book but it's kind of creepy, the part I remember is a girl is sent away from a house but they eventually find their way back through the forest but when they get back it's like their mother has aged horribly and they sent them away for a reason."
I'm so, so happy to help! I still have the copy I got as a kid when it came out. It's my all-time favourite YA book and I still reread it in my late 30s. I'm slowly collecting all the neon era Pikes at thrift stores. They're definitely around, and online, too! Here's a not terrible price on AbeBooks if you're in the US.

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Metaline
Aug 20, 2003

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

I'm not sure if it was the book you want (in fact checking I don't see Gilgamesh or Beowulf) but the best book of that nature I know of is this one

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Loved-Folktales-Anchor-Folktale-Library/dp/0385189494

Oh poo poo, I had this and totally forgot it existed! Thanks for the reminder!

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