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Favourite reads, growing up?

Doris Day

Doris Day

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What were your favourite books and authors, growing up? I was an avid Enid Blyton fan in the beginning (now I'm giving my age away!), but then I discovered Roald Dahl, and never looked back. I read The BFG more times than I can remember. :)

Later, in my teens, I discovered Tolkien (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings), and Stephen King.

It's amazing how your tastes evolve though: I find I'm a lot more adventurous with the authors I choose nowadays; trying not to stick to any one person unless they really hook me...
 
I was always a fan of The Baby-Sitters Club in elementary school. I also liked Roald Dahl. Judy Blume was another.
 
Wonderland

I must be a classicist. I loved Alice in Wonderland and must have reread it every year until I was out of high school. Probably this was because each time I read it I saw or understood something I had not appreciated before.

I also like the Oz series, Jane Eyre (read as a young teenager) and a Christopher Morley book The Goldfish under the Ice. Does anyone Morley any more?
 
I loved Roald Dahl as well. I read The Witches and The BFG over and over and over. When I was in my early teens, SE Hinton and Judy Blume were part of my staple diet. :D
 
I read every Monica Hughes book I could get my hands on as a kid. I also loved the Bruno & Boots series by Gordon Korman.

As a teenager I devoured Tolkien and Agatha Christie's works and pretty well any other novel I could get my hands on.
 
Short childrens book... I think the title was something along the lines of "I will always love you" or something... I'm sure someone knows what I am talking about
 
I was a huge Nancy Drew fan. My mom collected the entire series when she was a kid, and she passed them down to me. I also enjoyed Dr. Seuss, but who didn't? The Bernstein (sp?) Bears were pretty interesting. I liked the Disney books, all the ones that went along with the movies. There are a lot of other books that I read when I was a kid, it is kind of hard to remember them all now.
 
slackergirl247 said:
I was a huge Nancy Drew fan. My mom collected the entire series when she was a kid, and she passed them down to me. I also enjoyed Dr. Seuss, but who didn't? The Bernstein (sp?) Bears were pretty interesting. I liked the Disney books, all the ones that went along with the movies. There are a lot of other books that I read when I was a kid, it is kind of hard to remember them all now.
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Same here! ;)

I also loved reading Goosebumps. They were my wonderful crack. My friends and I at school would be swapping our books to read. Ah, good times!
 
Fantasy Moon said:
Same here! ;)

I also loved reading Goosebumps. They were my wonderful crack. My friends and I at school would be swapping our books to read. Ah, good times!
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OMG! I completely forgot that I used to read Goosebumps too! I think I had every single book that was written for that series! :D
 
Loved Nancy Drew and the Sweet Valley High books. Also Enid Blyton, particularly the famous five and I have a fair few of the Claude Voiler famous five books too.
Roald Dahl was amazing I think Matilda has to be my fav!
Also I loved and am still reading Brian Jacques' Redwall books. They are a bit samey but I love them all the same :D
 
being a geek, i think i read ever great illustrated classic there was in the library... i was a fan of the bobbsey twins (rare now, once a GREAT THING) nancy drew, the hardy boys, and animorphs (i could finish about 5 a day if i tried). i like r.l. stine's Fear Street collection, and fell in love and still am loving A Wrinkle in Time. also, although it was very late, i picked up an amzing book "tales for a small harmonica," which was sort of a b-book but enjoyable. stephen king, joyce carol oates, and Weekly Readers saved my life.
 
Swallows & Amazons?

Does anybody remember the Swallows & Amazon series by Arthur Ransome. Tales of school holidays where the Norfolk Broads are transformed to the high seas. I remember vividly borrowing these books from a mobile county council library which stopped opposite the church in my home village on a Wednesday afternoon.

Looking forward, Bart.
 
Roald Dahl (my favourite was The Witches) and Enid Blyton were my favourite authors, I think. I especially loved the Famous Five books.
 
Before I was ten I enjoyed Nancy Drew, Judy Blume, Doll in the Garden, Beverly Cleary, While Mrs. Coverlet was Away, The Boxcar Children, Wizard of Oz, and Alice in Wonderland, and the Peggy Parish stories.

Then I got into Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm, ( I loved that one.), adventure such Kipling wrote. I had a book of Mark Twain that I loved. Also any true ghost stories I could find.
 
I liked Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck and The Island by Peter Benchley.
 
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