What was your favourite book as a kid? (1 Viewer)

[Cormcolash]

I was given this as a kid and hated it

Legend (Gemmell novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I really like that book because it is a great laugh

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

In terms of kid-friendly fantasy books, I read the Terry Brooks Shanara series around 12 and they were great.

 

[Cormcolash]

The Feist ones are great for young people too, like Pete was saying. Feist really went off the boil somewhere around book 18 though.

 

[Lili Marlene]

You skip the poems?!!!?

something to look forward to next time I read it

 

[Reets]

Ok...

 

[jonah]

The Feist ones are great for young people too, like Pete was saying. Feist really went off the boil somewhere around book 18 though.

I read so much Feist as a kid <3 oh man, those books have such a place in my heart.

 

[Cormcolash]

I've read all but the last 2 of his books I think. Actually have the last one but haven't got the second last, keep checking charity stores for it every now and again. The last 7 or 8 years he's been really formulaic just getting books out for the publishers, but it seems with the last few books he changed for the better, going back more to the older style.

 

[CorkRehearsals]

an obvious one but noone's mentioned it..



also a cracking homegrown read..

these are fantastic,
you'll want to read them too

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she has loads of roman times books, they're all dingers

 

[jonah]

Anyone read the Abarat series by Clive Barker? I love LOVE Clive Barker, but haven't read this yet - might be a good'un for youngsters too.

 

[nooleen]

she has loads of roman times books, they're all dingers

would adults enjoy them?

 

[hydromancer]

would adults enjoy them?

That one was made into film a few years ago I thought it was fairly decent have never read any of her books though.

 

[nooleen]

i saw the film, didn't think much of it. they had lads dressed as roman legionaries in the cinema.

 

[Cormcolash]

Oh yeah, I remember watching that film too. Was fairly shit alright.

 

[nooleen]

charming potato

 

[Cormcolash]

Dreaderick Tatum

 

[Lili Marlene]

also a cracking homegrown read..

I liked this so much as a kid I borrowed it twice from the library, which was unheard of!

I got it again a few months ago, as an adult it does not hold up.

 

[george mcfly]

Anyone read the Abarat series by Clive Barker? I love LOVE Clive Barker, but haven't read this yet - might be a good'un for youngsters too.

I was actually going to post how Cabal was one of my favourite teenage books. It was much darker than anything I'd read up to that point but in terms of horror writing I'd never come across something so original and imaginative. I was obsessed with his books after that. I was a bit of a weirdo

Haven't got around to checking out Abarat. I must give it a try

 

[jonah]

I was actually going to post how Cabal was one of my favourite teenage books. It was much darker than anything I'd read up to that point but in terms of horror writing I'd never come across something so original and imaginative. I was obsessed with his books after that. I was a bit of a weirdo

Haven't got around to checking out Abarat. I must give it a try

I remember reading the Books of Blood as a kid and being obsessed and terrified. I have a particularly vivid memory of reading "dread" and it messing me up.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Cabal is the only one of his I read (I was maybe 16-17), wasn't into it. Really liked the first Hellraiser movie at the time but haven't seen it since.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

In terms of great horror, MR James's ghost stories along with Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft are all quite accessible. Poe is a bit old fashioned in terms of writing but it's good to mix it up.