On a different note, I was rewatching Battlestar Galactica last spring and in one episode, Adama was

My mother received a subscription to these, back in the 60s, and I've read quite a few books this way. I started reading them when I was about 10 or 11 I think, and I was excited to find a whole wiki page of them, listed in order.
Ring of Bright Water, A Fall of Moondust, Peaceable Lane, Youngblood tom cruise filmography Hawk,The Story of San Michel, Brickie, The Battle of Villa Fiorita,Hotel St. Gregory, The Man, Here Come The Brides, Avalon. .. there are so many of these that I haven't read since I was a kid.
Oh heck yeah, I used to read those things all the time. It was a real shocker to find out that the real books were one hell of a lot longer and that they included quite a lot of naughty language and grown up material--I had no idea! They weren't a terribly bad introduction to some pretty decent literature for a kid, but I'd never buy something like that now. I wonder how the authors felt about the chop job required to get them into the condensed books?
I've also enjoyed reading illustrated versions of other great novels. In some ways it inspired me to read the original publications. Regardless of condensed or illustrated editing, tom cruise filmography it's a great way to be introduced to a great story.
When forced to stay with my grandmother, I read these because it was that, Zane Grey, or other Zane Grey. I liked them, but I wouldn't read them now, unless I wasn't crazy about the author and wanted tom cruise filmography to focus on the story (I feel this way about Jack London, for instance). I love language.
My grandmother had a large number of these, and I read them, and I noticed usually there were a couple obviously geared to children, and then grownup stuff ( The Light in the Piazza , or something like that). A lot of these books went on to become movies.
My great-great aunt collected these. I've got a handful on the shelf in the living room (along with decades tom cruise filmography of Southern Living's Annual Recipes in hardback). I picked some of them up as a kid but didn't read more than a page or two before getting bored.
On a different note, I was rewatching Battlestar Galactica last spring and in one episode, Adama was in his office, he had a pile of books he was consulting on his desk, the spines facing the camera (so the titles were visible, just too small to read). So, I zoomed in, just to see what they used as props. And, lo and behold ! it was a pile of Reader's Digest Condensed novels !