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

[Reets]

Ok so I bought her:

The picture of Dorian Gray
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
The midnight zoo
Ripley's believe it or not
Gallagher Girls, books 1&2
Switch! The lost kingdom of Karibu
The Giver
Number the stars
Percy Jackson and the lightening thief
The latest Jacqueline Wilson
A few annuals.

I think she might be a little too stroppy for catcher in the rye right now, but I can dig out hitchhikers guide and a few others for her.

That's Christmas mostly sorted.
Good work thumped.

 

[Cormcolash]

Fixed

She'd be so into me if she just met me. And I wasn't allowed to talk.

 

[Cormcolash]

My favourite book when I was a kid was The Hobbit. Still is one of the best.

 

[EGE YURTUM]

...just this...

 

[Anthony]

My chap is 12 and reads like crazy. Lots of stuff that has already been mentioned but also light stuff like comics and horrible histories. Will read the Guinness book of records from cover to cover.

 

[Reets]

I like the horrible histories one myself. They have a science series that's pretty good too.

 

[hugh]

Horrible Histories is great. Especially the TV series. Very funny and very clever.

 

[Cormcolash]

The Lord Of the Rings is over a thousand pages so I am not sure what age group it would suit but The Hobbit would be more of a children's novel

Treasure Island ?

A 12-year old could definitely handle The Lord Of The Rings if they just got into it

 

[Cormcolash]

@EGE YURTUM

 

[washingcattle]

@EGE YURTUM

Christ, I remember having to read The Diary Of Anne Frank for school (not for the cirriculum, Transition Year, we also did Death In Venice, Death in fucking venice like!!!) It was not my kind of thing I was so bored I was praying for the end. Yeah I know. I'm very sorry. I may go to hell.

 

[Cormcolash]

Nazi Leprechauns sounds like way more fun

 

[Lili Marlene]

A 12-year old could definitely handle The Lord Of The Rings if they just got into it

I first read it when I was about 8. 90% flew over my head but I read it about once a year for the next few years and each time I understood a bit more. It was the greatest thing ever. Still not sure I've ever gotten to the point where I don't skip the poems though.

 

[Reets]

You skip the poems?!!!?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I first read it when I was about 8. 90% flew over my head but I read it about once a year for the next few years and each time I understood a bit more. It was the greatest thing ever. Still not sure I've ever gotten to the point where I don't skip the poems though.

It took me about 6 months to get through it when I was 16.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

You skip the poems?!!!?

How do you "read" that gibberish?

 

[hugh]

A 12-year old could definitely handle The Lord Of The Rings if they just got into it

Yeah definitely. I read it about that age, possibly a bit younger. I brought it on holidays one year and after about a week my parents sat me down and asked me if anything was wrong. I didn't want to go out and do anything, was being really uncommunicative, and they were worried I wasn't enjoying the holiday. "No, I'm fine! Leave me alone. I just can't stop reading this book and it's way more exciting than anything that's going to happen in the actual world."

 

[Cormcolash]

I think I was 7 when I first read LOTR. I think I'd seen the animated film just before that though, so had a bit more of an idea what it was all about.

 

[Jim Daniels]

I was a Belgariad kid, instead of a LOTRzer

Ten books in that trilogy. Pretty much ripped Tolkien off, but was still great.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I was given this as a kid and hated it

Legend (Gemmell novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I liked the Red Dwarf books too