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12191406 No.12191406 [Reply] [Original]

Are these the only children’s/YA books from the past century worth reading?

>> No.12191441

God, I want to write a long and facetious reply to this but don't have the energy or effort for it.

>> No.12192124

They were until the author turned out to be a prancing la-la numale

>> No.12192133

No, obviously.

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>>12191406
His dark materials

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>>12191406
Thank you OP, you made me remember this video game. It's been ages since the first time I wanted to play it, and now I remember!

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>>12191406

No.

Animorphs was the pinnacle of the form in all but prose. Its thematics, character development, and moral seriousness towers over every other YA book or series written before or since.

The real tragedy is that we'll never ever have a proper television adaptation.

>> No.12192499

Aside from obvious contenders - Le Guin, Lewis, Gaiman, Tolkein - I can suggest four slightly lesser-known titles:

'Poison' (Chris Wooding, 2003) - A dark satire of fantasy literature with an unusual meta-level twist.

'Haroun and the Sea of Stories' (Salman Rushdie, 1990) - A vigorous defence of liberalism and freedom of speech disguised as a surreal adventure story.

'The Broken Hourglass' (Severin Lopard, 1988) - Part autobiography, part fantastic horror story. Notable for its frank depiction of drug abuse as well as its unusual "inverted spiral" structure. The Long Man is still one of the most unsettling things ever described.

'The Solitaire Mystery' (Jostein Gardner, 1996) - An intricate puzzle of a book. Strange and memorable.

>> No.12192900

>>12191406
If you’re a kid, no. But they are the only ones that actually stand up to re-reading as an adult.

>> No.12192944

>>12192900
Except for all the others like The Hobbit, Peter Pan, anything by Roald Dahl

>> No.12192964

>>12192944
Except those are terrible books for retards.

>> No.12193148

>>12192964
You best step off my boy Pan

>> No.12194614

>>12192964
Whatever you like is for dumb people

>> No.12194645

>>12191406
>>12192215
>>12192413
If this is true I should probably kill myself because I obsessively read childrens and YA lit in Primary school but never any of these series.
That said, did anyone else love the Gone series by Micheal Grant?

>> No.12194656

>>12192499
Wow, I remember reading Poison a lot when I was younger. Was one of my favorite books but I had forgotten about it until now.

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>>12191406
No. This is. And its sequels.

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>ignoring this children's lit masterpiece

>> No.12196296

>>12191441
What do you think facetious means? Don’t look it up.

>> No.12196406

>>12191406
These and Warriors were my favorite books in middle school

>> No.12196944

>>12194661
I loved Coraline.

>> No.12196979

>>12196296
being sarcastic about serious issues.

oh god I hope im not going to be exposed as a total pseud here my whole reputation is riding on my interpretation on this one word and if I'm wrong the humiliation will be too much to bear

>> No.12197001

>>12192215
Convince me his dark materials isn't massively overrated shit
protip: you can't