/lit/ - Literature

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>>12295833
Having re-read it recently, I can assure you it's not nearly as good as 10 year old you thinks it is

>>12295833
Was pretty upset when he died a few years back

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>>12296229
Applegate's books aren't bad. Shame she only wrote half the series

>>12296070
That sucks. I used to read for hours a day and these were my favorite. Theyre were like 20 of them too so I spent like a whole school year reading them. The other series i loved was the edge chronicles.

>>12295833
Holy fuck I have been trying to remember what those books were called for years
Thank you OP

>>12295833

i dont know if its kino i just remembered that it existed

Anyone else remember this?

>>12296799
we had the same thing but for Vampires at my school.
I feel like I was the only person who took it out in ages, but shit was pretty cash because of how they displayed each entry; implying nothing as to their existence or nonexistence. It made me feel like I was reading some occult text.

>>12296796
No problem bro. They were sick as fuck to 9yo me

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>>12296737
When did you realise he was just recycling the plots in different time periods?
I think working out the tricks Jacques was using was my first steps into really understanding literature and how it works, and why some books work better than others.

These were shit but they spooked young me.

>>12296883
I was young enough that every book was sick as fuck to me, i realized soon though that the heroes always had good luck and that started to help me understand strong narratives and weak cliche ones.

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>>12296833
My school had so many cool books about ghosts and aliens and monsters and all kinds of spooky stuff. I'd give my left nut to be able to find them again.

>>12296762
Ok, this is epic. Also shell silverstein looked like a pirate rapist and scared me as a child

Feeling old yet?

>>12296982
That one was sick. The castle one too.

>>12296982
a little.

>>12296982
Why do cross-section diagrams tickle my penbis?

>>12296960
*blocks your path*

>>12297035
my path to where, the gay bar?

>>12297035
Lmao, fuckin got em

>>12296883
It probably took me 10 books to realize that Jacques has about 4 narrative templates with a few outliers. I probably read all of them through Rackety Tam.

In hindsight, Redwall is mediocre, but not because of the stale plots; it's the shit pacing that really hurts it. The prose itself is forgettable.

Thankfully, some books aimed for younger audiences hold up well

>>12296737
>edge chronicles

Based. I “collected” hard cover copies of the first 9 books in the series when I was in elementary school. Still have them on the off chance I ever reproduce.

>>12297557
The story was always tight but the illustrations made it 10x better. The drawings made the ships and mining towns look sick and made the world feel so real.

>>12297247
I remember reading this and the cover but absolutely nothing about it

>>12295872
God I loved this shit. Still own 20 or so books.

>>12297010
sp00py

>>12295833
I enjoyed these books when I was younger. The badgers were always badasses and Taggarung was pretty good too.

>>12297247
This was a great series. The first book was amazing. The second book took forever to get through. I put it down and started it over again at least 3 times. Once I got past it the third book was enjoyable too. The first book is still the goat though.

>>12297882
The Kitty chapters are definitely the weakest, and adding a third POV spoiled the Bartimaeus-Nathaniel dichotomy that the first book nailed perfectly.

if you didn't read this you were missing out. kung fu movies in book form

>>12298069
Oh shit, i read all those books, eagle was sick as fuck.

Diary of a wimpy kid -- now THAT was a series. Kinda went to shit after he got cucked by Rowley though.

>>12298069
>five ancestors
>there are seven

wow, i hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

There was a book about a kid who put on a ring and slowly turned into a dragon/ monster and I can't remember what it's called. Anyone care to help?

>>12295833
The writing is unbearably cringy at times but it's pretty good

>>12297010
also this

>>12298400
harry potter and the ring that slowly turns you into a monster

>>12297035
*crouches in your path*

how has nobody posted these

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>>12298727
Kino results so far.

*blocks ur path*

Earthsea

Tales of Alvin Maker

>>12295833
>Using "kino" on /lit/
That's a yikes

>>12295833
This is the most metal Redwall cover I've ever seen.

>>12298400

in voyage of the dawn treader Eustace gets turned into a dragon after he puts a circlet on and falls asleep on the dragon hoard... idk if that's what you're looking for tho

>>12295833
I was a bit freaked out when I first read it as they were bit more gore intense than red wall but they were pretty good series.

>>12296982
i wish i had read more of these growing up.

how well do they fare if i was looking to use them as research for writing? like if i wanted to write a story focusing on 18th century naval combat, would this give me the vocabulary i would need?

>>12297247
i read this and even as a kid was put off by the footnote gimmick

>>12297035
...yare yare

Do they hold up?

>>12295833
Take me back

This thread fucking hurts, my God, the pain

>>12298455
Fun story, we had a class project where we read a book and then wrote to the author, and I read this. Being the dumbest little shit imaginable, in my letter I asked her whether I should address her as Miss or Ms DiCamillo and if she still worked at a book store because it's the one piece of information I gleaned from a tiny biography blurb I read.

Probably half the kids got responses from their author, and she responded to me with a hand written note answering both my questions. I still have it folded up in the cover of the book.

>>12298599
Why did this make me laugh so hard

>>12302045
based

>>12302499
That was a nice story, anon

>>12297557

I donated a load of books recently but kept hold of the Edge Chronicles for the same reason

>>12296229
>Prequel book had mortrons, aliens with wheels

Seriously wish they had used that concept more often. Imagine one of the characters turning into a wheeled beast and just ripping shit up.

>>12300121
The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man were great as well. Bradbury has that timeless feel to so much of his fiction.

>>12303246
I was (regrettably) more into science books than actual literature when I was a kid.

>>12295833
The Chronicles of Prydain were GOAT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Prydain

I remember these books being really dark. I'd have to re-read them.

Discworld

>>12304044
ah fuck these lol. I did a book report on this very one. they were all depressing

>>(barda cursed under his breath)

>>12304044
didn't know they wrote ones about boys

>>12296982
>searches for pooping person in each book like i'm looking for Waldo

>>12296982
fucking I used to love this shit so much
especially the castle one
damn, brings back memories

>>12297072
Based. I used to fucking love Coville in elementary school

>>12298400
The Monster’s Ring by Bruce Coville

>>12299045
Greatest book my grandfather ever read to me. Kicking myself for giving it away.

Bit surprised nobody has posted this yet. The covers of these books were always so radiant that they'd instantly catch my eye, every time we'd go to the library.

Aw man, a rush of feels and nostalgia just hit me. I remember going as a class to the library. It was so big and neat and quiet. Very nice place. But being the little nerd I was, I never read because I thought it was boring.

>>12297247
I've read this series 7 times
It's amazing

>>12302045
Fucking great

1

>>12306867
2

There was this series called Tunnels or something and it was honestly one of my favorite low science fiction books I have ever read.

Ava - Poppy was dope

Does anyone know of a book involving creatures that extinguish light? There's a character that is a tree that was chopped down and became a toothpick that told the main characters about fate. There was a plot line where they had to stay awake for three days to avoid being tracked because of something about dreaming. They made a bomb or s/t.

>>12295833
absolutely based

who here /chad/ Guinness Book of World Records?

>>12307942
Those books were always for those retards who were forced by the teacher to borrow something.

>>12299218
Oh shit, I read this one. All I remember is that they try to buy a slice of pizza but it costs like $100 due to inflation lol.

>>12304576
This is it. Thank you man

A series of unfortunate events