/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13368203]

What were your favorite books from childhood? The Captain Underpants series was fucking hilarious when I was 10 years old. I haven't reread them since so I don't know how they hold up.

[Anonymous No.13368213]

>>13368203
The search for wondla by that guy who worked on the spiderwick chronicles was one of my favorites.

[Anonymous No.13368226]

>>13368203
The series about the different weenies, my favorite was the campfire weenies or something. Spooky little mindfuck stories for elementary school kids. My favorite was about a kid who choked on a hot dog and went to limbo where he played an endless baseball game. The conflict came from him debating whether or not to return to life

[Anonymous No.13368253]

>>13368203
loved anything with pictures of reptiles or dinosaurs up until 6th grade. i'd read them as well and would ask my mom to buy me a pet iguana which i neglected and deserve to drown in shit for.

[Anonymous No.13368297]

>>13368203
Eight or nine years old:
The Hobbit was my first proper fantasy literature. I really enjoyed it at the time. I read the two towers directly after because my school library didn't have Fellowship of the Ring. Obviously I was lost, but still enjoyed it.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will always have a very special place in my heart. The scene with the monkeys made me laugh so hard I cried. This led to the teacher's aide taking me out of class to ask if everything was alright at home, or if I had emotional problems.

11 or 12 years old:
Devoured It by Stephen King, reading non-stop. That one sewer scene was weird. I don't know if it was more or less weird because I was the same age as the characters.

[Anonymous No.13368310]

>>13368203
Bartimeus Trilogy
Edge Chronicles
Artemis Fowl

[Anonymous No.13368326]

>>13368203
The Tortall Series by Pierce (my school librarian ordered the next books just so I could read them)
The Dragonriders of Pern
And there was this one book, I forget, I can't find it again. It was old- I had a lot of books from the 50s for some reason, one was about these two brothers on the amazon, and there's some kind of aztec sun-god and one of them gets a fever and there's piranha fish, I've been trying to find it for years, and another one with a volcano-

God, I just want a bunch of 50s action adventure books- I was just hit with a wave of nostalgia so hard I got dizzy. The monochrome lime green pictures, the smell of the yellow pages, the linen covers, the fraying edges of fabric backed paper, sitting cross-legged next to my bookshelf, running my fingers down the illustrations, clicking my tongue at the tear every book like that has, delighting everytime the teenage brothers run into mysterious locals or violent poachers...

I'm seriously going to cry. Today is a miserable day.

[Anonymous No.13368677]

>>13368203
Redwall, Eragon. Percy Jackson. Etc

[Anonymous No.13368733]

I really liked the Dragonlance novels when I was in middle school and early high school. I still name all my wizards in video games "Raistlin".

[Anonymous No.13368758]

>>13368226
I was too scared to read those...

[Anonymous No.13368937]

>>13368203
Andy Griffiths, Harry Potter, Deltora Quest, Doctor Who, 39 Clues, Percy Jackson,

[Anonymous No.13369405]

>>13368326
Stay strong, man. This too shall pass.

[Anonymous No.13369445]

Redwall books and R.A. Salvatore's early Drizzt books.

[Anonymous No.13369455]

>>13368203
Island of the Blue Dolphins

[Anonymous No.13369467]

That would be redwall

[Anonymous No.13369527]

>>13368297
Pretentious little fella, aren’t ya? Love you though.

[Anonymous No.13369537]

>>13368203

[Anonymous No.13369543]

>>13368203
anyone remember a fantasy book where the protagonist is a teenage girl who seems totally isolated living in some giant castle or some shit, and she ventures down this winding hallway that I think was a library, and there is weird magical shit behind all the doors, the girl is training to use magic as well I think.

It was kind of grim in tone I think, but I was like 10 so I have very little recollection

[Anonymous No.13369551]

Brehs...

[Anonymous No.13369569]

>>13368203
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJgL9pbDLBE

[Anonymous No.13369599]

>>13368203
I remember this story about a wolf who get a mouth widening surgery , eat the village and cant process them because is anus was too small.

[Anonymous No.13369619]

>>13369551
Looks comfy, would read

[Anonymous No.13369620]

Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl were my introduction to books. My mother used to play the Enid Blyton audiobooks in the car all the time, read by Kate Winslet.

[Anonymous No.13370840]

>>13369405
thank you

[Anonymous No.13371130]

>>13368758
I picked up the book again a few weeks back to revisit my childhood. As you'd expect, the writing is super meh, but I'll be damned if some of those concepts still don't hold up

[Anonymous No.13371455]

Hegel - Phenomenology of the Spirit

[Anonymous No.13371499]

I read Shogun when I was 10, almost 11, and loved it. I was a degenerate edgy little shit though and really liked the bits where the European heroman fucked Japanese QTs and parts where dudes got gutted and eaten alive by dogs, or boiled in a pot while a fat lord listened and fucked a pair of hookers.

Honestly it's a minor miracle I didn't end up a massive edgelord weeaboo when I was older bc I was definitely on that trajectory.

[Anonymous No.13371519]

>>13369599
Reminds me of a Somali proverb "a man who eats a coconut must have great faith in his asshole."

[Anonymous No.13371524]

>>13371499
Tai Pan is quite good as well if you've never read it.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Z1tJshWFdcy No.13371545]

A picture book of Exodus.
That story from « Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark » with the scarecrow what got laid out on the roof of those farmers.

[Anonymous No.13371548]

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[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Z1tJshWFdcy No.13371567]

>>13371548
Based

[Anonymous No.13371608]

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[Anonymous No.13371758]

>>13371548
It's a thread asking what you enjoyed as a kid, of course posts are going to include self-reference.

Not entirely clear on what Reddit spacing even is. I was under the impression that it meant creating a new paragraph for every single sentence like a moron, but some people seem to use it to mean any line separation regardless of topic shift. I'm not sure about the gap after every sentence part, but using a gap between paragraphs has been pretty normal on 4chan since at least 2006 and in writing in general since typewriters. 4chanarchive seems to be gone now, but it's easy to find old threads on other archive sites and see that this is the case.

[Anonymous No.13372202]

Un ironically Metro 2033 read it when I was like 10 or so and enjoed it

I've also read the 2034 and 2035 books when they came our realy liked them too

P.S I am from Germany and in German thees books are all together about 2200 pages I like the writing style of Glukovsky very descriptive

[Anonymous No.13372253]

There was this series where each book was called Measle and the __________ (for example Wrathmonk, Slitherghoul, Mallockee) that I loved, also the Gone series by Michael Grant is definitely one of the better YA series.

[Anonymous No.13372275]

>>13368203
>Dav Pilkey writes a book literally called World War Won
>doesn't include any references to the shitloads of great literature and poems WWI produced

What a fag

[Numen !!GgBWHLRiayD No.13372398]

>>13368203
"The Bailey School Kids", "Goosebumps", "A Series of Unfortunate Events".

[Anonymous No.13373914]

>>13368203

Darren Shan series - Doesn't really hold up. Alot of is vitriolic B-Movie like trash.
Alex Rider series - Prose is still... okay.
Captain Underpants series - The most childish series ever, but that's the charm.

I remember loving a child's encyclopedia. Read that all the time.

Religiously read those. I wish my parents encouraged reading just a bit more when I was younger.

[Anonymous No.13374542]

>>13371758
>Not entirely clear on what Reddit spacing even is.
Reddit spacing is separating the number of the post you are quoting from the body of your post with two line breaks. For example, I began this post without reddit spacing. This is an example of reddit spacing:
<begin example>
>>13371758

I like green eggs and ham.
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See the difference? It's a sort of a shiboleth. On reddit, you have to "double space" the content of your post from whatever you are quoting or the body of your post will be included within the formatting of the quoted material. It's hard to explain succinctly but I'm sure you understand now. Using line breaks or paragraphs in any capacity does not necessarily mean it's reddit spacing. Reddit spacing specifically refers to the relationship between the quoted material and the content of the post.

[Anonymous No.13374671]

>>13368203
Captains Underpants was just pure fun and probably formed my tastes as a kid. Diary of a Wimpy Kid was good but it is weird to think that I was in the target audience when it started and it is still going even as I am almost done with Uni. Percy Jackson was good but I still think it should have ended at the Last Olympian because that shit was kino as fuck.

[Anonymous No.13375296]

The Wardstone Chronicles, Percy Jackson, Darren Shan, Alex Rider, Horrible histories, General Knowledge encylopedias, History books, Diary of a wimpy kid, Famous Five, Secret seven, bunch of Star Wars refrence books and Novels, Doctor who related media, Cherub Series 1 and Hendersons boys, the GONE series of Novels, Artimes Fowl, Roald Dhal, also a large amount of other books that i only have vague recollections of.

[Anonymous No.13375337]

>>13375296
Just remembered some Skullduggery pleasant books, Sherlock holmes, books on weaponry, some of the bond novels, Sharpe, James pattersons kids books, Greek, Roman, Celtic and general mytholgy books, and lots of books on tanks and WW2.

[Anonymous No.13375708]

I remember reading everything from Roald Dahl back in my middle school library in 2006 and even today they still hold up really well. I enjoyed the BFG and Boy.

Captain Underpants was great too but I never got to see the aftermath of when they were transported back in time with the dinosaurs.

Wimpy Kid was nice but I heard its gone to shit after Dog Days.

Also reads a lot of those mass produced RL Stine books.

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[Anonymous No.13377084]

>>13368203
I once read the entire Demonata series by Darren Shan in a single night. Looking back they were kinda trash-horror, but still pretty fun to read.

Probably the best books from my childhood would either have to be the mortal engines series, or a series of unfortunate events. While both have been ruined by shitty movie adaptions, the former had the most interesting world out of any children's book, and the latter was essentially an introduction for children to the modernist novel.

[Anonymous No.13377091]

>>13377084
I read one of them in the Danish translation. It was called Ondt Blod. I thought it was spooky but then again I was in 5th grade.

[Anonymous No.13377096]

>>13368203
Adventures of Tom Sawyer. reread it 3 times at 9-10, i loved it because it made 'murican past seem very comfy (im russian)
it was a gift from school

[Anonymous No.13377106]

>>13368203
Reminder, people who read this book as a child turned out to be homosexuals when they grew up. I knew it was double digit shit even then and condescendingly judged fellow kids that bought it when the scholastic book fare came around. I wish you the worst in life, OP.

[Anonymous No.13377115]

>>13375708
go back

[Anonymous No.13377162]

the magic treehouse and time warp trio

[Anonymous No.13377181]

>>13368253
Are you a herpetologist now?

[Anonymous No.13377211]

Captain underpants was a favorite of mine too. Also roald Dahl + eb white. We read all of their classics in 3rd grade and my teacher bought us all copies. Miss those times man

[Anonymous No.13377782]

Horrid Henry and Captain Underpants was my shit