Books you liked when you were Young

[Anonymous No.10468113]

Books you liked in your early teenage years or middle school days

[Anonymous No.10468121]

>>10468113
When I was a small boy:
>Goosebumps
When I was a teenager:
>the Harry Potter series
>Stephen King books (especially Misery)
I still enjoy Stephen King. Yes, I'm a pleb.

[Anonymous No.10468126]

>>10468113
>None
>tfw the only novels you read in middle school were shitty spicc Christian novels

[Anonymous No.10468129]

>>10468126
Post the shitty spic Christian novels, anon. I'm curious.

[Anonymous No.10468136]

>>10468121
>same minus Harry Potter, plus miscellaneous YA novels

[Anonymous No.10468164]

>>10468129

[Anonymous No.10468180]

>>10468164
So what is this? Infantilized bible stories?

[Anonymous No.10468189]

Percy Jackson, nibba

[Anonymous No.10468191]

>>10468189
Why did you read a Harry Potter knockoff instead of Harry Potter?

[Anonymous No.10468194]

>>10468113
I used to read the Greeks growing up. I loved the stories of old mythology the most. Obsessed over them in fact. I hate seeing shit like Percy Jackson come out these days. I also loved goosebumps and a series of unfortunate events.

But I remember growing into a philistine. Became quite like a Luddite when I hit high school because I was severely neglected and was quite depressed by it.

Just recently I am rediscovering how good it feels to learn. Anyway. just take another shitty brainlet post. Just trying to take an open look behind me.

[Anonymous No.10468199]

>>10468191
I read both

[Anonymous No.10468263]

>>10468113
Harry Potter, then Tolkien, then read a load of Bernard Cornwell novels in my mid-late teens, then transitioned over a few years into pretty much exclusively reading literary fiction, with the occasional fantasy schlock as a guilty pleasure

[Anonymous No.10468318]

>>10468191
Not him, but I also read Percy Jackson. I found Percy Jackson before Harry Potter. Not saying they're better books, but a few things would support such a statement:
1. Summer Camp is more fun than the British School system.
2. Fighting monsters with swords, shields and stuff is so much cooler than shaking a stick at them,
3. Since they were written for Riordan's ADD addled adolescent, they're fast paced. This works just fine for books written for ages thirteen and up.

[Anonymous No.10468329]

The Hobbit

[Anonymous No.10468336]

We had to read this in tenth grade. I used to just read goosebumps as a kid but stopped reading books for a couple years. This got me back into it.

[Anonymous No.10468338]

I read a lot of Clancy as a teen

[Anonymous No.10468344]

>>10468336
Putting this with the post would've been nice

[Anonymous No.10468347]

>>10468113
Child: Treasure Island
Middle School: pic related
High school: the greeks

[jj cool as ice bich No.10468366]

Ah yes, Harry Potter

[Anonymous No.10468368]

In elementary school: Narnia. All of it. Lewis' style of storytelling is just really appealing to kids. I'm saying that as a compliment, of course.

[Anonymous No.10468372]

>>10468113
Robin Hood
desu I still like it

[Anonymous No.10468418]

>>10468372
Classic taes like that are honestly great reads for kids. Sometimes they need to be abridged or cleaned up a bit, but they're so much fun.

[Anonymous No.10468583]

>>10468113
Ray Bradbury anthologies

[Anonymous No.10468720]

[Anonymous No.10468753]

Edger Allen "cousinfuckin" Poe

[Anonymous No.10468797]

Middle school to early teenage years; my favorite stories were Romeo and Juliet, The Old Man and the Sea, 1984, Animal Farm, The Outsiders, Labyrinths, The Last Question, Harrison Bergeron. I've never really had a trash phase.

[Anonymous No.10468826]

i fucking loved discworld through my early teens

[Anonymous No.10468973]

>>10468797
No, but you've clearly had a school's choice phase.

[Anonymous No.10469081]

>>10468973
That's true. I even read the dictionary cover to cover in middle school.

[Anonymous No.10469110]

I really enjoyed this book

[Anonymous No.10469158]

>>10468113
The Golden Compass and Rangers Apprentice series

[Anonymous No.10469739]

>>10468113
>read the first three books when I was like 7-10
>read the hobbit in 7th grade
>literally can't remember a single sentence from either
Anybody else forget everything they read before High School?

[Anonymous No.10469758]

unironically Dan Brown

[Anonymous No.10469766]

Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Harry Potter, silly little fantasy series by guys like Piers Anthony and Robert Asprin.

[Anonymous No.10469773]

>>10468113
Did you like to stretch your legs as a kid?

[Anonymous No.10469786]

The Giver, Series of Unfortunate Events, Wrinkle in Time, generic kids fantasy crap

[Anonymous No.10469817]

>>10468113
Appart from Harry Potter and the like, I was crazy about White Fang and Robinson Crusoe. When I came across Ender years later I loved it, to me it's the same tipe of novel.
At 14 or so I discovered Princes of Maine Kings of New England, which is a bit dark to be understood at that age but was obviously very attractive. I was also trying to read things way over my understanding because I was an infatuated lonely kid :(

[Anonymous No.10469844]

>>10468720
My nigga

[Anonymous No.10469927]

>>10468113
>little kid
Where wild things are
>kid
The Hobbit
LoTR
>Teenager
The Chronicles of Narnia (all seven books)
Harry Potter
assorted YA novels

[Anonymous No.10469931]

>you will NEVER live on a small quad of old stone buildings with leaded windows
>you will NEVER steer a gondola as your qt RP-accented gf giggles and tells you not to crash
>you will NEVER take a walk along the river with your qt privately educated girlfriend on a frosty February
>you will NEVER attend a formal ball with your qt Hermione-esque gf who blushes when she sees your reaction to the dress she's wearing
>you will NEVER have an hour-long discussion with a jaded, witty professor who finds you "utterly intriguing" and leave his office to find your qt gf pretending to read an advertisement pinned to his noticeboard
>you will NEVER ride old-fashioned bicycles across cobblestone streets beside your qt gf and laugh as you speed down a hill with your legs outstretched
>you will NEVER share a cheap bottle of red wine with your qt Home Counties gf while listening to Cocteau Twins in her dorm with candles providing the only light
>you will NEVER arrive a little late to a raucous, controversial debate at the Union and sneak in with your qt gf, ducking and offering whispered apologies as you make your way to some spare seats
>you will literally, unironically NEVER take a slow walk beside your qt vaguely artistocratic gf through the fallen leaves of a quiet park and make her smile as she clutches her coursebooks across her chest
>you will NEVER sit in a small concert theatre and watch your qt gf playing viola and experience a overwhelming feeling of pure love for the girl you one day hope to marry
>you will NEVER run through heavy rain to your qt elite gf's dorm and have her hug your drenched coat and hair as you provide whispered encouragement about her exam the following day
>you will NEVER stand on the lighted porch of your home watching your parents through the frosted glass as they approach to open the door and feel your bookish gf squeeze your hand a little tighter
>you will NEVER read Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in bed with your refined intelligent gf and try to stop yourself from laughing as she adopts different and exaggerated accents for the characters she's voicing
>you will NEVER sit at the dinner table in your qt posh gf's home and have her mother express her genuine shock at the fact you're from a poor background and have her father respect you a little more for turning out the way you have despite that
>you will NEVER sit up in bed still half-asleep and slowly unwrap one of the gift's your qt attentive gf got you for your birthday and have her stand with her hands behind her back with her lips pursed in anticipation of your response to the books she has spent time researching in the hope they will be ones you enjoy

[Anonymous No.10469940]

>>10468164
my negro!
>>10468180
it's a series they are the story of a kid that goes trough tribulations growing up, they are kinda like a self help book but not really I mean it's supposed to help kids going through the first years of adolescence

[Anonymous No.10471139]

My teacher made us read The Outsiders in the fifth grade, and after having reread it this past year I have to admit that it still remains to be the best book I was forced to read for school.

In my free time I read and enjoyed the Warriors, Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson, Series of Unfortunate Events, and Harry Potter series, plus random YA novels like Hatchet and Tuck Everlasting. Everything else I read I can't remember.

How has my taste aged, guys?

[Anonymous No.10471147]

>>10468113
I enjoyed Hatchet as a young boy

[Anonymous No.10471166]

>>10468113
Anything about ancient Egypt
The Hobbit
The Blue Sword
1984
A Little Princess (legitimately pretty good)
Watership Down
My Side of the Mountain
The Martian Chronicles
The Catcher in the Rye

I loved A Series of Unfortunate Events/Harry Potter/His Dark Materials but I was a lit snob as a child and was a little embarrassed about reading YA series. Around age 12 I was obsessed with reading forbidden books like Naked Lunch and A Clockwork Orange.
Anyone else learn to read when they were 2?

[Anonymous No.10471169]

>>10471147
My man. You ever get around to reading the other books? I didn't find out until recently that it's the first book out of five.

[Anonymous No.10471172]

>>10471166
forgot pic related. Loved the fuck out of this book. Man this thread makes me sad

[Anonymous No.10471174]

>>10468347

4edgy8me bruh

[Anonymous No.10471203]

>>10469110
Easily favorite book until like 8th grade


Cliff hanger had me shook

[Anonymous No.10471232]

>>10468113
I don't care what people say or if it's truly the dullest franchise ever, but Harry Potter was fucking great to read as a kid/teen.

[Anonymous No.10471301]

>>10468113
I read pretty much all of Roald Dahl's children's stories by the time I was 10 or so. My early teenage years were mired in a superficial interest in lovecraft and vaguely algernon blackwood. I grew out of that as quick as I got into it though and didn't make much of an ass of myself.

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[Anonymous No.10471334]

>>10471172
Fucking love this book

[Anonymous No.10471356]

>>10468113
Out of the Silent Planet was my jam in late middle school

[Anonymous No.10471364]

>>10471166
Loved this book so much I made this image my desktop background on my first laptop

[Anonymous No.10471370]

i liked the hobbit

[Anonymous No.10471546]

>>10469817
Yeees. White fang and Robinson crusue. I pored over that stuff

[Anonymous No.10471569]

>>10468113
I have found that people who read them then like them still. I am one of those people and I have not gone back to reread potter

[Anonymous No.10471580]

>>10468318
>1. Summer Camp is more fun than the British School system.
being mischievous in school is more taboo.
>2. Fighting monsters with swords, shields and stuff is so much cooler than shaking a stick at them
fighting is repetitive. exploring strange locations, flying when you want, playing skyball ,transmogrifying,etc is were its at.
>Riordan
has he ever written a book that did not have some hidden motive?

[Anonymous No.10471809]

Eragon
I opened to the first chapter again last year to reread it then promptly closed it back up and threw it into the shelf

[Anonymous No.10472108]

>>10468113
The Artemis Fowl series.

[Anonymous No.10472731]

>>10471809
Kek. Never ever revisit Christopher Paolini's work after you've hit 18. He's one of the biggest hacks of young adult fiction.

[Anonymous No.10472769]

I read Harry Potter but never understood the hype around it. I liked Tolkien stuff better.

I read a lot of sci-fi. The foundation series was my favorite.

[Anonymous No.10472778]

>>10472731
>Kek. Never ever revisit Christopher Paolini's work after you've hit 18. He's one of the biggest hacks of young adult fiction.
All writers of YA fiction are hacks.

[Anonymous No.10473778]

>>10468113
Arthur Gordon Pym.
Fucking comfy book.

[Anonymous No.10473786]

>>10468720
kino

[Anonymous No.10473800]

Childhood: Kid friendly Greek myths
Kid: Pic related and Harry Potter
Teen: Didn't read much but Ayn Rand before I moved on to better things

[Anonymous No.10474534]

>>10468113
Gregor the overlander was the first book I read that remembered enjoying, and then the generic stuff Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, the hunger games series, etc

[Anonymous No.10474813]

>tfw no Redwall
Loved me some Redwall books, couldn't stop reading them.

The Sammy Keyes books were good too, but I think I only got to the fourth one before I aged out. I should go back and find out what happened.

The Hobbit, Roald Dahl, and about ever book on wild animals I could find.

>>10472108
Monica

>>10472731
>>10471809
Painfully true

[Anonymous No.10474819]

>>10474813
Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.10475022]

Artemis Fowl

[Anonymous No.10475068]

>>10472778
True, but Paolini is particularly awful.

[Anonymous No.10475089]

>>10468113
My dad had a book shelf with literally everything Stephen King ever wrote on it, and I read most of it

In elementary school I remember really liking Deltora Quest/Sea of Trolls among others

[Anonymous No.10475097]

>>10471809
this. I was obsessed with Eragon when I was 8 but as I grew older and more books started coming out I just kept trudging along to see how it would end. Honestly I remember Eragon being really charming and good, then everything after was bad. No one cares what his retarded cousin thinks, or the nigress, or the high IQ baby. Honestly I remember reading through Inheritance as soon as it came out (I was 13 or 14 at the time I think) and I can't even remember how it ended.

[Anonymous No.10475098]

>>10474813
redwall was the shit

[Anonymous No.10475128]

>>10468113
Besides the obvious Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Goosebumps etc, I also read a lot of simplified classics (pic related) and Roald Dahl.

[Anonymous No.10475129]

>>10475097
the good guys win

[Anonymous No.10475153]

>>10469110
>>10469110
Nancy Farmer is great, was a bit obsessed in middle school. I really enjoyed the Sea of Trolls, A Girl Named Disaster and Land of The Silver apples as well.

[Anonymous No.10475197]

The Wind Singer series, Deltora, Nancy farmer stuff, Freak The Mighty, The Last Book in The Universe, Earthsea, Roald Dahl(still read them in middle school lol), The Demonata Series, Across The Nightingale Floor, The Chronicles of Prydain, The Amulet of Samarkand, Maniac Magee, The Thief Lord, Gregor the Overlander, The Wednesday Wars, Finding Spirit Bear, Lots of shitty ghost/cryptid story collections

[Anonymous No.10475249]

[Anonymous No.10475267]

>>10475153
>I really enjoyed the Sea of Trolls
So did I.
I've been meaning to re-read that series.