/lit/ - Literature

>The Last Battle
It was definitely the darkest of the Narnia books, but I liked it a lot.

why though?

>>3434353
I'm gonna allow this wrong answer on the grounds it has Scrubb + Pole in it who are the best team-up.

>>3434344
A Princess of Mars

>>3434432

This.

The Silver Chair killed the rest.

A wizard of earthsea.

bump for nostalgia.

>>3434432
The Silver Chair was the only one I couldn't finish, no matter how many times I tried. I loved the shit out of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, though.

as a lad
>BFG (I know you guys remember this one)
>captain underpants (obligatory)
>auto magazines like the dupont registry

high school
>Sir Gawain
>Mayor of Casterbridge
>short stories of Oscar Wilde

>>3434535
>>short stories of Oscar Wilde

I bet you ride the flesh obelisk.

Harry Potter master race.

His dark materials trilogy

>>3434547
>>3434547

Hunger games master race

Reminded me of Alice in Wonderland, but with a message instead of integrated mathematical concepts that completely went over my seven year old head.

>>3434588

This and Bridge to Terabithia. I just recently picked up a copy of BtT and read it and almost cried, then put it on my bookshelf with everything else.

Read this when I was about 12 or so, so I still count it as part of my "childhood." I'd say this cemented my interest in racially-based stories.

While we're on the subject of children's books, does this book sound familiar to anyone: the plot was a middle-class English or Australian family who are very dysfunctional. The author was 17 when she wrote the book, IIRC. I read parts of it when I was 10 and thought it was hilarious. A decade or so on, I'd like to re-read it again. Does anyone know?

I'm having difficulty remembering the name but there was some children's horror book that I read about a young boy and his sister moving to a new house in the country. Sister was fat and lazed about in her room reading or something. The boy decided to go exploring and stumbled upon a man with a missing arm at which point he ran away and at some point had his eyes eaten by birds. As you can probably tell my memory of the story itself is as absent as my memory of the name I just have fond memories of it for some reason.

Grade School: Goosebumps
High School: Catcher in the Rye

Can't wait to read it to my son.

Better not post Watership Down motherfucks, that shit gave me nightmares for week as a child.

>>3434671
That Was Then, This Is Now is one of my favorite books of all time.

>>3434648
I had nearly forgotten that. I absolutely love the illustrations.

Bump

White Gold master race

This too. I was one of the few that actually enjoyed reading this in school.

Harry the Dirty Dog master race

A charming tale which presents the struggles of Irish immigrants sons' struggles to adapt to a changing world in their new home, not shared with their fathers. The finding of a niche for Mike's beloved shovel shows that not every form of technology needs to be cutting edge to be useful.

Pic related most cultured(ish) thing I was into. That aside I was mainly into things like My Teacher Is An Alien, Wayside School books, and 'The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales' (read the shit out of that last one)

>>3434344
The High Kind and the whole series. The Black Cauldron was amazing.

Loved the story, loved the style of writing, and it taught an important lesson.

Jerry Spinelli is my hero.

Loved the story, loved the style of writing, and it taught an important lesson.

Jerry Spinelli is my hero.

I loved the Redwall books. I read through that series so quickly as a kiddo and couldn't wait for the next one to come out.

>>3436179
this is the same guy who wrote the Wringer, right? I felt so awesome and edgy for reading that book, aahahha, i love it.

>>3436195
This so hard.

This used to spook me as a kid.

Every child should own these.

I was pretty into Dahl too.

>>3434661
Hnnnnnggg!
I totaly forgot about Five Friend's series! Loved the shit out of those! Can't wait to have a chidl and read that shit together.

>>3434671
I hated this book when I was a kid, can't remember why.

>>3434648
C:

>>3434570
His Dark Materials mustard race

Read all of these very quickly in middle school.

best kids' lit

Loved these back in primary school.

Wholly satisfying. A splendid book.

>>3436509
>pointless kids lit

>>3436510
HOLY SHIT I WAS JUST GOING TO POST THIS.

This was my childhood. After that I moved on to this other fantasy series but I can't remember the name of it. It involved a dragon and people climbing up the side of the dragon's ice cave.

Jules Verne

>>3436501
>tfw realizing that His Dark Materials is a thinly veiled argument for satanism

>>3436509
>obnoxious kids lit

>>3436553
Yep that sounds like me.

>>3434344
You're kidding? It's writing is atrocious. I can understand liking it as a child but now?

Why all the hate on Series of Unfortunate Events? I used to love that shit.

>>3436381
Hells to the yes. The Edge rocked. And the illustrations were amazing.

I am the only person that has ever read this book. Second time reading it now, still a great read to let your mind go on.

>>3436547
Emily Rodda's series 'Rowan of Rin' perhaps?

Took me three years to read this shit

To be fair they said hes the big read dog so you know its going to take a long time

Step up, nerds.

>>3436566
Some people don't need a smug overbearing writing style in a novel in order to enjoy it. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a fantastic book but it still has a young vocabulary. My favorite childhood book was Ulysses tho, so I'm kind of better than all of you faggots.

>>3439148
fuck yes.
>>3436509
booooo
>>3436306
yes yes YES
>>3436195
obligatory, as is all Raold Dahl.
>>3434432
yes
>>3434344
yes

pic related

>>3434344
Oh god, I just remembered this book and looking back it's almost identical to Catch 22.
>mfw Sachar (who did a reading at my elementary school introduced me to absurdism.)

>>3436508
I was in middle school and I saw right through this pandering, 2edgy4babby crap.

>ctrl f redwall
>only 1 found

seriously?

>>3439440
The only book that's made me cry

Not the cover I have, but a very enjoyable series...

>>3439148
Agreed. I heard there was a cartoon series on a channel no-one watched was it any good?

>>3439511
I got sad, but felt disappointed because everyone had hyped it up so much and I didn't end up crying like I wanted to.

>>3436168
>>3439114

oh god. nostalgia just hit me like a train

I'm not very old, but we read this in high school. One of my favorite books. Other than this, the harry potter series. I don't read books. I haven't a clue why I'm on this board but you guys seem friendly so I lurk.

>>3439985
>friendly

>>3436180

I loved that book.
You just made me add it to my queue.

Really great book I must've read it 10 times when I was really young. I loved his descriptions of holidays.

>>3440527
oops

I didn't really read an awful lot as a kid. I did like the 'Redwall' series, especially 'Mattimeo' (third book I think?.

>>3439985
>thinks /lit/ is friendly
>likes Paulo Coelho
Probably best to keep from posting a little while longer kiddo.

A Wrinkle in Time.

>>3435968
My nigga.
This is my favorite book to this day.

>>3436306

YES. The drawings of medusa and the minotaur in his labyrinth used to creep me out when I was a kid.

>>3439985
>>> /mu/

The Adventures of Tintin. That's the whole of my childhood right there. 1v1 with me faggots

>>3434648
You know, I don't know if me and my mom ever finished reading that.

Anyway, Hank the Cowdog was probably the most memorable book series from my childhood.

>>3441218
>pick up tintin
>flip through pages
>the guns
>RATATATATAT BOOM BOOM KAPLOW BILLIONS OF BLUE BLISTERING BARNACLES
Epic childhood.

>>3441261
"woah woah"

>>3441269
"CRUSH YOU LIKE AN INSIGNIFICANT SPIDER!"

"DIABLO!"

>>3434344
I remember hating that book so much, I recall a line that went something like
>he breathed in and out drawing a flower toward him and then releasing it, it reminded him of a cartoon joke
the entire book was always so petty to me

Not Oz'y enough in here

>>3441684

>>3437218
>the only person

>>3436381
my niggar, i read all of these books

Watership Down
Anne of Green Gables
The Princess Bride

>>3441767
oh shit nigger, I still have that somewhere.

>>3436203

Sherlock Holmes. Still the basis to compare everything else in the genre.

I must have read Treasure Island about 10 times as a kid.... To this date, it's the book I've read the most. The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Holes were also read several times.

I used to read things over and over as a kid. I don't do it that much anymore.

this was just one

I owe a lot of my outlook on things to reading the works of Douglas Adams as a kid. He made me laugh when I really needed it. I should also be grateful that he taught me to write in a fashion that conveys mastery of the English language while playing around with its rules and conventions. It really bums me out that he's not around to thank.

>>3434344
read it in 3rd grade

>>3443211
mah nigga

>>3434588
mi negro

>>3443297
mein neger
I posted>>3443477

I read this book when I was real young and I have been trying to find it for along time but I cant really remember much about it.

Only thing I really remember is that they would shoot matches out of a bb gun and they would ignite hopefully some else can remember it.

>>3436510
I was like, "Fuck yes I loved that series," and then I looked up the summary of each book on Wikipedia and the plot sounds as if it were written by a child, instead of for children.

Sad, but I still sort of want to read it again.

>>3434671
Stay gold, nigger Steve.

>>3443509
And yet, it was everything I could have wanted from an adventure fantasy book series at that age. Easily ingrained archetypal characters and straightforward descriptions, such that focus could be put on a fast-paced adventure with puzzles, battles, and challenges and oh my goodness my little child mind loved it.

....I'm just going to share this memory with y'all here.

>>3443611
The feels! THE FEELS.

>>3436306
Holy shit. That's when i really started getting into reading
>>3443211
They had a sequel just in case you didn't know, it's called Year of the Griffin

The last Artemis Fowl just came out. It wasn't good, but the ending made me tear up.
.

>>3443662
>>3443611
>>3443525
>>3443477

The feels, man.

This.
As I will be having a child soon, this will be a fun read again.

That and Harry the Dirty Dog.

>>3436306
Fuck, I read the Greek Myth book everyday in 2nd grade. I never knew there was a Norse one

>>3443662
1>3>2=4>=5>6>7

>>3437218
rumo>bluebear>>>>>the other ones

>>3439489

Was just about to ctrl f that myself. Reading the original Redwall is what turned me into a bookworm.

>>3443756
I personally couldn't get into any of Jaques's work

>>3434475
Oh my GOD.

I think I love you. Serious love here.

>>3435949
I will put my mouth on your penis if I ever find you.

No homo.

>>3436244
I tried finding them at my city library. No copies. Ever.

So I watched the show.

>>3436168
Warm feels, bro.

Also, this.

Anyone else used to read Matt Christopher books but then never finish them?

>>3443794
Oh i remember that Duck. When did I read that? Jesus it's been too long

>>3443804
I finished this one.

>>3443794
la la la laaaay-eeee!

Because my weeaboo was on 11 in mid/high school.

I also read and loved Robinson Crusoe and Jack London in grammar school. I was a weird kid.

I was really into John Bellairs - The Mummy, The Will and The Crypt, The House With A Clock In Its Walls, The Dark Secret of Weatherend, The Curse of the Blue Figurine, and a bunch of others.

The ones with the Edward Gorey covers were the best. The ones without had the same characters, but just felt different.

>>3443749
must have attempted book reports for a couple of years on this book back in grade school

wikipedia sez there's a sequel out this fall

You guys are so young.

Way back, first words level. Worm drives apple car. Can't lose.

>>3434593
Dude, I've been trying to remember that book for nearly ten years. It's one of the first books that I remember wanting to keep reading. Thanks for mentioning it, you made me a happy guy.

This fucking series made up my middle school years (if I'm allowed to count those).

>>3436510
>>3439148
>>3439985
>>3441767

Ohhhhhh all my childhood, right here.

>>3443662

Dangit that was gonna be my choice.

That being said... Bunnicula was a close second.

>>3443885
Fuck yeah. Love that fucking worm.

>>3443992
>Bunnicula
And the sequels. Don't forget there was a whole series.

>>3443611
Oh God, my poor defenseless feels. They were not prepared.
>>3443662
Is Colfer still writing those?
>>3443973
are you a woman?
>>3434344
I feel like there was something missing from the movie.

>>3444090
My sister read the Uglies and now she's a boy

>>3439489
Mah nigga. Still read these to the day

>>3443611

fucking amazing book

I still cry.

>>3436509
I wouldn't say that. Around the 4th book you learn a fucking ton about disappointment.

are you all me!?

>>3444204
my feels are tied to a tree.

The Great Catsby

>>3444219
yes

>>3444242

>>3443611
To this day one of my favorites.

>>3443749
fuck I loved that book

>>3436171
holy shit yes. fucking awesome book. that cat was chill as fuck.

Also, anything by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

>>3436381
MY FUCKING NIGGA

1/6

2/6

3/6

4/6

5/6

6/6

7/6

surprised nobody has posted this yet

>>3434344
Read this when I was in like third grade. I don't remember much from it but I know that I loved it.

>>3436171

The Cricket In Times Square? Hell yes!

>tfw highschool senior
>have read so far:

>BNW
>Gatsby
>A Farewell to Arms
>Fahrenheit 451
>Clockwork Orange
>The sound and the fury
>Journey to the end of night
>Trying out Do androids dream of Electric Sheep

How's my taste, pretty shitty huh? Recommend me something good

A Series of Unfortunate Events
Coraline

>>3446694
It's not shitty it's just all solid tried and true classics that you probably had to read for lit class.

Try "Satantango" by Krasnahorkai or any number of other books from New Directions publishing or Dalkey Archive Press. Also, read some DFW.

>>3443838
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I remember reading the trilogy in high school and loving every second of it.

I haven't read the two other books yet though.

>>3446846
my nig

anybody?

>>3446957
>dat Shrike
>dat Hester
>dat Valentine

The feels bro... they were many.

>>3446960
Oh yeah, I read those, they were good. There were two of them, right?

>>3446960
everybody

>>3446968
Seconded,
Thirded,
Fourth'd

by the way, if you haven't read this by now, don't let age be a barrier,

There should really be a /Lit recommendation list for children's literature

I can't believe it's already been thirteen years, I remember seeing an ad for it in a copy of Disney Adventures.

>>3447016
What's even more amazing is that the series is still alive. The third book came out, what, 2011 or something? A five book series over a ~20 year period just seems a little silly.

>not reading all 287 Magic Treehouse books

>>3446056
Oh shit, that was some good stuff. I don't really remember much about it besides some awkward OH SHIT WE'RE REALLY SIBLINGS action, people turning into deer, and the entire world turning into heaven or some shit at the end. Also, the dill made the dude sneeze. Why do we remember such weird things from books we read as kids?

>>3434648
>>3434671
>>3436203 Still one of my favorites
>>3439114
>>3446058
All above are fantastic.
Pic submitted for your approval.

Does anyone know this kids' novel? The cover had two kids (possibly running) on some kind of path. There was water nearby.

The plot is really, really hazy, but I remember there being an adult in a car at the beginning, and a kid or two on the side of a road by a school. I think there were mystery elements. We read it in 4th grade.

>do you even cry /lit/?

The whole thing with the living quarters of people of different classes being color coded was cool. And there was a bunch of crazy dream world shit. I loved this book.

>>3447114

F-fuck you, man. I already cried at The Cay. Leave me alone.

yooo /lit/ there was a picture book I had as a child where a boy has a stuffed bear and he like, THROWS it and MISTREATS it or some shit, then he somehow gets whisked away to a bear land where they're really mean to him, and treat him like an animal. Then his toy bear comes and helps or some shit. I CRIED when I read it, /lit/, I actually started CRYING. what was it called?

>>3447132
Tortured Dreams of a Sadist

Feelmaggedon

>>3447136
Yes, well I think he learns the error of his ways, so there is some character dynamic involved, and he treats his toy bear right at the end.

>>3447122
What's this? I'm curious.

>>3447132
yoooo dude sounds like roald daaahl or some shit.

if not it's totally the Corduroy Bear.

This thread is making me realize how many books I never read.

I'm actually new to /lit/ I am studying illustration and one of my teachers told me that I should read more. I've only partially read books forced upon me in high school. On two hands I can probably count all the books I've read for myself.

I am seriously thinking of saving all of the books in this thread and reading them all.

>>3447146
Shit, I forgot the image.

>>3447148
It's not that, but I read that book too.

>>3447150
>children's books

Okay but don't add these to books you've read on your own when they're anywhere from 10-200 pages.

Each spread was the cross-section of an apartment at different times of the same day. You get to watch all kinds of drama and hijinks play out over the course of a day. Get this book from your library and read it, even if you're old.

<- mine

>>3443992
my second as well!

>>3446047
only read the first of this series, but remember it being pretty good.

>>3446058
read that shit within less then a day. totally wracked my brain, but was good

>>3447016
ive been meaning to read this series

>>3447083
only read on of these. got bored of em though. think i might have been too old for them at the time.

Can't believe I forgot these.

THE PUZZLE FRANCHISE

Miss Motherfuckin' Mallard

If anyone can help me?

I'm trying to remember this book I read as a preteen, it was about this kid who tries out a new videogame where you wear a suit and completely enter the world.

So he goes off to ancient greece in the videogame, only he finds he can't unzip the suit and he realizes that when he gets hurt in the game he gets hurt in real life, and he has to defeat the minotaur.

please help.

>>3447157
That's fair. But I imagine my brain is soft and weak from not having read many books. I need to strengthen my reading comprehension before I can move onto the big boy books. Hopefully it's not too late for a 24 year old?

Also what does /lit/ think about using audiobooks instead of actually reading?

I just loved this book the first time I read it, and I love it even more now.

>Those characters
>Those interludes
>Dem feels as they all begin to forget each other.

No it's not a masterpiece, but it's very enjoyable and I would actually love to see a faithful and good film adaptation.

>>3447196

Oh god I read this once.. But for the life of me I can't remember what it was called, I will try my best to find out

>>3447196
Perhaps one of Orson Scott Card's "Ender" series? My memory is hazy on what happens. But there are definitely games, and space, and physical trials.

>>3447196
gary paulsen?

>>3447176
You should definitely read Abarat. I re-read the first two books when the third one came out and I can re-affirm that they're pretty great. Incredibly memorable characters and setting.

>>3447298
They always looked really interesting. almost bought it at borders when it was still around, dont know why in the world i didn't but i will definitely look into finding it again since i like that weird sort of fantasy.

>>3444204

>tfw people made fun of you for loving this book because it looks like it says

The Gay

>>3447381

I just remember getting mad when the other kids in class laughed during the Booby part.

>>3447176
Abarat is pretty awesome. My only warning is that you will probably be disappointed in the third book, because it brings up a lot of Frodos. It might have to do with the author getting sick all the time and just kind of forgetting about where he was going with the series, but I'm still looking forward to the next book to see if it'll be as good as 1 and 2, which are excellent.

>>3441259
>Hank the Cowdog

Glad to find someone else who grew up with those books.

>>3447196
>>3447260
yo dude no need to help me any more, I found out what it was.

i liked this one.

>>3447381
>they were out of chocolate milks and you had to drink a homo milk

>>3447114
Oh dear merciful God in heaven.

Why didn't any of you c/lit/s read the Blue Sword??

>>3447572
I remember being a 6th grader in Texas and thinking my classmates were imbeciles for being entertained by those books.

>>3447611
Well yeah, isn't 6th grade a little old for Hank the Cowdog?

>>3447611
>reading JP in 6th grade

I remember being in 4th or 5th grade. I was temporarily in a really mediocre school in a ghetto district. One day everybody in my class got free books from the counselor and I noticed the vast majority of them had Captain Underpants or something similar. I got Tuck Everlasting and was subsequently disappointed, even somewhat angry. The teacher commented on how great of a book it was and was glad that's what I got because she thought I was a really smart kid who would appreciate it. I didn't give a fuck, I wanted Captain Underpants, so I never touched the book after that day.
Years later in my senior year of high school we had to read Tuck Everlasting for an assignment. I then realized I actually would have loved the story as a kid and felt like shit.

>>3447615
>>3447630
Yeah, that's what I thought. Fucking Texas. They also forced us to read outside of school what they wanted. They had a big collection of books for which stupid quizes had been made. You'd have to complete a certain number of quizes, meaning you'd have to read their shitty books in your spare time so you could take the quizes.

I was a big reader in 6th grade and that made me rage.

>>3441292
>the entire book was always so petty to me
>so petty

I don't think you know what that word means.

I can't be the only one

>>3447611
I remember being a judgemental little cunt even back at the age of ten or eleven with that kind of thing, between shit books I'd look down on classmates for watching TV or playing the vidya instead of reading about two years later developing an affinity for the vidya and playing that shit errday.

>>3447896
You fucked up.

>>3447907
I've diverged from that path by now, I have been remedied.