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

[Lili Marlene]

remember these lads? there was a character called sinead and i'd never come across the name before so i thought it was pronounced 'sin edd'

I remember my parents were convinced they were gonna be as big as Disney. Didn't quite pan out. Was there a tv show as well?

He was my maths teacher.

Banville, not Hennessy.

did he talk about his books to you? They were quite good teenage things; people forming bands and drinking down the beach and stuff. I haven't gone back to check how they hold up mind

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I loved this as a teen

 

[Lili Marlene]

I read the complete George Orwell novels when I was 14 or 15, just to be the worlds best Manics fan. Ridiculous.

 

[nooleen]

the barrytown trilogy is another 'slightly too young to understand everything' classic

 

[george mcfly]

Oh I loved those Usborne books. I used to spend a lot of time in the local library as a kid, usually looking at books about ghosts and the supernatural.

 

[nooleen]

I remember my parents were convinced they were gonna be as big as Disney. Didn't quite pan out. Was there a tv show as well?

don't remember a tv show

 

[Lili Marlene]

don't remember a tv show

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I don't actually remember watching it but I remember it existing

 

[george mcfly]

I remember reading Dracula in school one day and this other guy saying "I didn't know Dracula wrote any books". I asked him what he was talking about and he pointed at the cover and said "Bram Stoker by Dracula". 15, he was.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Catch – 22 for a kid? Are you mental? I found that extremely tough going as an adult. Reckon I’d have gotten approximately 4 lines in as a kid.

Also The Picture of Dorian Gray ? For a twelve year old maybe they could get into it I think it might be very dense or richly written.

I read both Catch-22 and Dorian Grey as a young teenager. Wilde is no more difficult than any of the other classics (Twain, Verne, etc.) and Catch-22 works on so many levels that I've gotten completely different things out of it but really enjoyed every read through of it.

i lived for this shit as a kid

i wanna buy it but £33??
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I think I still have the Supernatural one with the cool skull somewhere. Must see if it's knocking around.

I was the worlds biggest Michael Scott fan when I was about 9 or 10.

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his Irish legend and folklore stuff has held up, his own fantasy fiction is effing non stop action ridiculous and hasn't. I'd like to go back and try his horror again.

There was a werewolf one set in Wicklow (October Moon) and another more witchy, demonic one set at Newgrange. Both were great, would read them again.

Similarly I was a big fan of the Hennessy books but couldn't handle how unbelievably shite the cover-art was

I had the one with the green cover but don't think I read it because, like you, I thought the cover was too bad for the contents to be good.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I had the one with the green cover but don't think I read it because, like you, I thought the cover was too bad for the contents to be good.

I want to guess his wife, our Spanish teacher, did those.

She was always faffing about in the art department.

 

[washingcattle]

I wish I'd read The Life Of Pi by Jann Martel and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman when I was 12. I think I'd have loved them.

Any mention Catcher In Th Rye yet ? Just wondering.

 

[jonah]

I think I first read catcher at about 11 or so, and fell in love with it, and was obsessed throughout my teen years.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I hated Catcher in the Rye, what a moany prick.

 

[jonah]

Yeah I know most people feel that way, he was moany as hell. i think the reason I liked it was that I'm moany, and during my own teens was particularly moany, and I kind of like that honesty in a narrator, particularly when its first person perspective. Might just be me though. Might also be the reason Harry Potter 5 is my favourite. I like moany.

 

[washingcattle]

I hated Catcher in the Rye, what a moany prick.

Like you were any different at that age.

Wait aren't you a brain scientist ?

So you probably were different..... gloyven!!!

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I might have been moany as a teenager but I don't recall ever being that moany. I swear you could have given that character a million quid and a night with his ultimate fantasy ride and he would still call it a crumby, vomity experience.

 

[washingcattle]

I might have been moany as a teenager but I don't recall ever being that moany. I swear you could have given that character a million quid and a night with his ultimate fantasy ride and he would still call it a crumby, vomity experience.

He'd be right, because money and one off passionless sexual encounters are empty hallow experiences.

 

[Cormcolash]

Gimme a few million quid and Audrey Tautou's number and I'll be happy to confirm that for you

 

[washingcattle]

Gimme a few million quid, Audrey Tautou's number and the kind of body and personality which she might actually find attractive. I'll be happy to confirm that for you

Fixed

 

[Jim Daniels]

I loved Catcher in the Rye and still do.

In books, moaning kids/ teenagers are fine. Moaning adults on the other hand.....