/lit/ - Literature

Top three books as a kid

calvin and hobbes

>>6275055
This is actually still my favourite book.

>>6275055
I really enjoyed the His Dark Materials series as a kid. Along with anything by Dahl. Dont h8.

The first three in this series are absolutely fantastic, though the fourth is a bit of a downer.

>>6275055

Little prince?

>not reading your children Grimm's original fairy tales
>not helping them develop through their subconscious

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uses_of_Enchantment

>>6275125
i don't want my children to become german nationalists though

I started with the Greeks

>>6275072
Holy shit this

>>6275127
pleb

>>6275108
Read this series as an adult (~21) and I was surprised by how good it was.

Also, the 6th Harry Potter book isn't too bad.

And pic related of course

>>6275136
Yeah, Pullman's alright,

Also, they turned this into a puppet show recently. Touring Australia or something. W-would it be bad if i wanted to go see it?

>>6275142
Life is short. Do what you want to do.

>>6275055

>>6275142
>W-would it be bad if i wanted to go see it?
If you live in Australia, you owe it to yourself to see it.

You probably should smoke some weed or do some drugs though.

>>6275128
me too. same edition, even.

pic related kicks the shit out of Harry Potter

>>6275163
I'l coat my arm in kerosine, light it, and fistfuck a goat.

>>6275169
> smoking the herbal jew
Yeah, nah. But yeah, I'm thinking ill drop a tab with my mate and go see it when it comes to my town. Being high in a room full of kids/parents/giant caterpillar puppets, surely nothing could go wrong. Will be entertaining.

>>6275187
Worth checking out at all? As a solo read, not in comparison to Potter

Neverending Story is pretty good too, but pic related is way better.
The Little Nicholas books by Goscinny are excellent as well, and I really like Roald Dahl's stories when I was a kid.

>>6275190
>>Worth checking out at all?

I've been considering re-reading it as an adult. I came to it a bit late, anyhow, I was probably fourteen i.e. older than the protag.

Cooper was highly awarded for this series, there's 3 other books after it, too. can't remember if it was the Caldecot or the Newbury, but yeah. and she got the Welsh non-kids-literature award for one of them, too, since that book was steeped in Welsh culture.

I remember them giving me that heavy feeling of being connected to the universe. maybe that was me being naive, but still, they're good.

>>6275190
>I'l coat my arm in kerosine, light it, and fistfuck a goat.
pics plz

the bible

My favorite.

>>6275242
Exactly one year from now, i'll post pics. Be here. 16/03/2016.

>>6275238
I'll probably checkout my local library, see if they're there. You've piqued my interest. Sometimes I find older childrens books to be better than fiction aimed at adults.

>>6275055
isnt half chan a gigantic field of doldrums?

>>6275249
At least. True quality here. Although the repetitive pattern and the black/white caracters eventually bored me in the long run. I think I grew out of childhood when Redwall ceased to entertain me.

Jacques died a few years after :(

>>6275269
I will have a box of tissues and a bottle of hand lotion with your name on it, friend.

>>6275055
Gonna read this shit to my children. Great book.

>>6275249
damn, RIP

>>6275249
Aw, shit yeah! That takes me back, anon. Comfy times long gone now.

Also enjoyed pic related.

>>6275271
>Half chan

Go back to your MRA circlejerk, fag.

>>6277182
that is such a cool cover. i wish this was a part of my childhood

>>6275072
agreed.
Calvin's antics and Hobbes' insight really shaped they way i thought about the would when i was younger. In a good way

>>6275127
OK Shylock

>>6275055
Probably one of the few childrens book I'd ever pick up and read today.

>>6277769
>the BFG
I loved that book has a kid, but now every time I see it now I immediately identify the title as 'The Big Fucking Giant'. Has the internet corrupted my mind?

Best

>>6277813
Nah. I thought the same thing in the third grade, and was secretly relieved when the teacher told us that the F stood for Friendly.

>>6275055
The Hobbit. The Sirens of Titan.

>>6275128
Motherfucker the audiobook of that was delicious.

>Green Eggs and Ham
>Coraline
>Echoes of the Elders
>Weslandia

I read all of those frequently and will read them to my children.

>>6275156
Damn right

>>6278282
you will never have children

>>6275055
This book changed my life more than any other. I still have the copy I bought at the book fair in 2nd grade. Most of my best friends as an adult all have that book in common as well. I think it just really resonates with a certain kind of person and everyone else is not even worth speaking too.

>>6275108
I totally discovered the concept of sexuality in one scene in the amber spyglass where the two main character are implied to make love.

I am unashamed to say that that was my first fap, as tears streamed my face

Sensitive as fuck kid

>>6275128
I nicked that from my school

>>6275055
Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban
Sophie's World
The Neverending Story and Momo, by Michael Ende
Andersen's fairy tales and the Grimm brothers

>>6278636
>Riddley Walker
>Written in opaque language a step down from Finnegan's Wake
>Contains cannibalism, sex, pedophilia, a nuclear holocaust, torture, slavery and cyclical genocide of the Eusa folk, heads on sticks
>Children's lit

Hoban is usually a children's author, but damn man, did you ever read the book? It's like The Road but with purple prose and more vegetation.

Bo-Peep didn't just find her sheep, she killed the ringleader, skinned him, and wore his head and fleece as a grisly warning to the rest of the flock. Valuable life lessons there.

>>6277769
Have you tried his mature work? It's pretty good.

No Bellairs yet?

>>6275135
nope

Would Calvino's Fairytales count? Or are they 2postmo?

>>6279784
They are not all postmodern and kids could definitely enjoy them. They also aren't any more edgy than that Brother's Grimm crap