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I had read some of the tales (Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad) as a kid, but while I was in the Navy, each deployment I would pick some group of works to read all the way through. My first deployment it was Shakespeare, my second the 4-volume Powys Mather translation of the 1001 Nights. And on and on (complete C.S. Lewis, complete J.R.R.Tolkien, complete Sherlock Holmes, complete Dickens, Ray Bradbury, etc.). Good way to settle down for sleep after a night watch, though, and made a six-to-eight month deployment move along. My Grandmother was an English prof with an interest in fantasy/scifi, so I learned about Tolkien and Lewis in the 60s.