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favorite childhood books GO

>> No.1201987
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i use to love nancy farmer

maybe still do, haven't reread anything recently though

>> No.1201995

anyone else read a ton of redwall?

>> No.1202003

>>1201995

Present!

My favorite books were Legend of Luke, Outcast of Redwall, Pearls of Lutra, Lord Brocktree, and Martin of Redwall.

They were......so RAD.

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Niel Gaiman is a fucking god at writing

>> No.1202021

>>1201995

More than was probably healthy.

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I don't know anyone else that's read this, but this was my shit, dawg.

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>>1201987
I never was a fan of that one. It felt like the author was building up to this big conclusion, but then gave up on the story in the end and wrote in a deus ex machina. However, the algae Farming sequence where everyone is growing giant zits was rather lulzy

>> No.1202078

>>1202069
too bad i didn't know what a deus ex machina was when I was 8

>> No.1202100

>>1202078
KID IS AWESOME

>> No.1202107

There's too many to name.

My favorite books when I was very little was something called Grandma and the Pirates and Cross Country Cat. The first was about a grandmother and her grand daughter who make a noodle pie and pirates come and steal it, and the second is about a cat who skis.

From when I was 5-10, I was reading a lot of Nancy Drew books, and a lot of the classics like Mutiny on the HMS Bounty and A Tale of Two Cities. I remember really liking Call of the Wild. I was also reading the Wayside School books around this time. When they started printing the Animorphs series, I was really into that, too.

When I was older, I liked books like Sabriel and Shade's Children, and then when I was 13 I went through a phase where I read tons of books (fiction and nonfiction) about the Holocaust.

There's so many books, I started reading when I was three and I'm still almost constantly in the middle of a book.

>> No.1202110

>>1202078
lols, I think I read it when I was a little too old probably 14 or 15

>> No.1202130

What to do With a Dithery-Doo

>> No.1202143

>>1202107
oh man I loved wayside school!

>> No.1203103

Animorps, TKKG, ???, Redwall

>> No.1203204

Watership Down
The Hobbit
The Call of the Wild
My Teacher is an Alien

>> No.1203221

Lizard Music

and

The Phantom Tollbooth

>> No.1203226

Fuck yeah Redwall. I read every goddamn one until I was about 13: just started lord brocktree recently... and it's still as good. I laughed heartily at there being a hare called stiffener medick, didn't notice that age 9...

Read and loved his dark materials when it came out, from about year 5 to 9 I guess. Philip Reeve's moving cities books were great, and god yes animorphs.

I utterly adored asterix and tintin too.