/lit/ - Literature

The violence held the most appeal for my dumb kid self.

>>10556628
Animorphs mainly. Also had a big phase with '50s Hardy Boys stuff.

>>10556628
garfielf and honkniggerbumps

>>10557185
Yup still got these books in my closet somewhere

>>10556628
harry potter

>>10556628

Rotated between bouts of James Pattershit and Philip K Dick. I was a weird kid

the Warriors series and pic related

this, desu

>>10556628
Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events. I was so into the series as a kid, I was convinced that the books took account for real events and weren't fiction.

Funniest books ever.

They would've made great movies. His best work was his late 80s YA books rather than his primary school books.

>Dear Mom and Dad, wrote Rudy. This place is terrible. Each day I am subjected to countless atrocities. The food is spoiled and poisonous, and the drinking water is contaminated so there is an outbreak of typhoid. Our cabin collapsed last night in a typhoon, but don't worry. Only one guy got killed. It's not all bad. I do have one friend, named Mike. He's the one who pulled me out of the quicksand. I have to haul garbage every day, but there aren't too many wild animals at the dump and I've only been bitten twice. Mr. Warden, the director, is very nice, and he has a real social conscience. He hires only desperate criminals as counsellors. Our bunk counsellor, whose name is Chip, is a reformed axe-murderer on parole. He has red eyes and yells a lot and keeps an axe under his mattress. Tonight is really going to be fun. Our cabin hasn't been fixed yet, so we get to sleep in trees. I sure hope the typhoon doesn 't start up again. I'll be safe and sound so long as Algonkian Island doesn't sink any further. Your son, Rudy P.S. If this letter looks messy it's because I'm writing it while being chased by a bear.

His writing went to hell in the 90s.

>>10557389
>Tfw the kids ende dup living on an island, alone, because their lawyer was too stupid to ever recognize Count Olaf.

>>10557398
Also, Beverly Cleary. Her best work was in the 50s and 60s. Her Ramona books got so depressing. The Henry Higgins books and the very early Beezus & Ramona books were awesome.

>>10556628
I read this shit in 1st grade and I've been a self aggrandizing pseud ever since.

>>10557453
this was the good shit

>>10557194
Hardy Boys was the shit. Undoubtedly my favorite book series of elementary school. My school library had a lot of them and I read them all.

>>10556628
Animorphs was my life from grades four to six

>>10557453
definitely enjoyed Redwall as well

>tfw still trying to figure out how things work at 23 but distinct lack of helpful mammoths

>>10557185
Haha! Yep!

>>10556628
Artie Fowl and A Wrinkle In Time (series or whatever), I just realized that shits' by a f*male too so I suppose they aren't completely worthless literary talents, Frankenstein too

only patricians read this in elementary school

anybody else?

>>10557708
Literally everyone in my grade read these

>>10557861
*reads, whoops.

>>10557953
MODS

>>10557708
kind of pessimistic for your impressionable minds, don't you think? Kind of interesting how often they were pushed to us.

Any of these worth reading as an adult?

>>10558018
Not sure. I tried rereading Hitchhiker's Guide recently and that was... underwhelming, so I left the rest of my middle school reading in the past as a nostalgic memory. That doesn't necessarily mean that none of it holds up, though.

Real nigga shit coming through.

>>10557453
I did book reports on all of these books

>mfw instead of moving on to books that matched my reading level I stayed with this series because I grew so attached to the characters

>no deltora quest

>>10556628
This was my go-to. Also the Magic Treehouse books and the Bunnicula books.

>>10558066
fuark

>>10557435
It bothers me that in every book there would be some "really tough" case that Detective Dad couldn't figure out and the case would be cracked open by a kid.

Got a couple that haven't been posted yet.

>>10558151
Based. I even had the encyclopedia of monsters or whatever as a kid.

>>10558155
Same, still have the series on my shelf.

Also the Brian series. The Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, Brian's Hunt

>>10556628
Roald Dahl was my favorite author in elementary school.

I also had a bunch of Andrew Lang's "color" fairy books and other kid-friendly mythology/folktales

>>10556628
Hatchet (and its sequels)
The Westing Game
Holes
Narnia series

>>10557708
I was a little old for them when they came out. They sound kind of dark like >>10557973 said. Are they suitable for children, or does it just set them up to be 4chan posting sad frogs?
Note how many people here have read them in a relatively small thread:
>>10557389
>>10557405
>>10557861

Anyone? I'm pretty young so perhaps not.

>>10558066
I kept thinking about these books when I visited Samarkand. When I read the books as a kid I thought it was a made up place

>>10558089
Those were really funny. I remember being a kid and laughing in class after something stupid happened and everybody just looked at me like I was crazy. Nice times.

>>10558167
It was a really popular series. Not just for future sad frogs imo, more like a kid-friendly dreary aesthetic like Edward Gorey

>>10558171
I homestly thought the Czech Republic was a made up place when I first read the books.

>>10558159
I was just reminded of this book by the same author
I haven't thought about in years, but I loved it when I was a kid
No idea what it was about though

>>10556628
The Stephen King of children

>>10558168
nah man I had a hardcover of the first book when it came out. I remember staying up all night to read it. I expected my classmates to be impressed by how cool it looked but they didn't give two shits.

I was obsessed with His Dark Materials as a kid, I've been meaning to go back and see how they hold up.

>>10558168
Read the first few as a teen. Really cool premise.

arry otter

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>>10558159
these + the chronicles of narnia

>>10558168
What, there are 9 of them? Btw I've read the first one and I liked it

>>10557708
>>10557389
Patrician

>>10556628
Rook best era

>>10558455
Twig>Rook>>Quint but it's all kino.

I can't be the only one who read these.

Also these.
>>10557453
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>>10558066
This was also all the shit too. Also deltora quest but desu it was trash.

mandatory treehouse post

>>10556628

>>10558455
His story DID have the happiest end, if I recall.
> Tfw essentially all of Twig's crew died immediately after the cheerful ending of the third book.

>>10556628
>>10557708
Loved these as a kid

Edge Chronicles was great because it's children's fantasy but not a Tolkien clone

>>10558522
Oh also it was really fucking great how the setting evolved over the course of the series, I immensely enjoyed that

>>10558522
I think you kind of hit the nail on something that I couldn't quite put into words. All the weird shit like the big ants and waifs and shrykes and such were great because they had their own flavor, instead of falling into the standard Tolkein archetypes (not a knock against LoTR itself, though, of course).

>>10558509
ages 2 - 4

Hobbit + Lord of the Rings
Dune series
Foundation series
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

...damn, I read a whole lot of series.

>>10557194
>Hardy Boys
I remember trying one of these in primary school because all the cool boys were reading them. It was complete shit.

>>10557194
I started reading a Hardy Boys book in school once - literally from the school's own library, not my own copy - and my teacher said I needed to return it and pick another book because she said it wasn't appropriate for my age. I was pissed back then as I was enjoying it and thinking about it now I'm still kinda pissed. I showed actual engagement with the book and I was told to put it back. Who stunts a child's enjoyment of reading like that?

>>10557194
I made my parents buy all of those motherfuckers by the time I finished second grade. I used to speed through two a day, I loved those books man.

I know we all like to shit on Harry Potter but back in the day they were fucking dope

>>10557453
I want to read Redwall to see what I missed out on as a child. Everyone talks about how impressive the feasts in the books are.

>>10558168
My 20 year old younger brother swears by these books. I've met a few people at uni who said they were their favourite books too. Genuinely surprises me how hooked people are onto these ones.

For me, it's Tintin, Moomins, Calvin & Hobbes and Harry Potter. nothing too unique desu.

>>10556628

This is what I remember being assigned over the course of school in Australia:
>Tomorrow When the War Began (twice or thrice)
>The Outsiders
>The Rabbits (picture book lol)
>The Boy with the Striped Pyjamas
>Lord of the Flies
>sonnets of Shakespeare
>Hamlet
>The Great Gatsby
>Heart of Darkness
>Romantic poets
>The Crucible
>Pride and Prejudice
>William Blake
>The Secret River
>The Scottish Play
>The True History of the Kelly Gang
>Frankenstein
>Translations by Brian Friel
>Seamus Heaney poetry

>>10558508
mah nigga

anyone else?