/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20833453]

Your favorite book as a kid?

[Anonymous No.20833460]

>>20833453
I did not read a book for pleasure until after I graduated high school.

[Anonymous No.20833466]

The Cay

[Anonymous No.20833514]

>>20833460
these are the kind of freaks that populate /lit/. is this really a place you want to waste your time?

[Anonymous No.20833527]

>>20833514
Are you on your period, woman?

[Anonymous No.20833532]

>>20833453
As a toddler rotten island. That book is fucking weird.

When i started reading probably the redwall series

[Anonymous No.20833538]

house of the scorpion

[Anonymous No.20833544]

These shits were fire

[Anonymous No.20833596]

>>20833527
Kubrick posting wit my cock out

[Anonymous No.20833650]

>>20833453
The complete Moomin books series
I just finished Jansson's Summer Book with great please bc it felt like that for adults

[Anonymous No.20833655]

The percy jackson series but I liked telling my parents what they got wrong according to a greek mythology book I read in my school library.

[Anonymous No.20833945]

Rory McCrory's Nightmare Machine. It's not famous, but apparently it's by a guy called Paul Stewart. I just really loved the plot, which as I recall is actually pretty similar to the film Inception, which came out maybe 15 years after I'd read this book.

[Anonymous No.20834187]

>>20833453
The first proper novels I started reading I was 12-13, I really liked the Darren Shan Vampire series, shame its ending was so fucking horrible.

And some obscure book called Hellhole, I think there was a 2nd one never sure if a third came out. It had some evil clown demon called major music in it.

[Anonymous No.20834214]

>>20833655
what do you do for a living?

[Anonymous No.20834267]

"The Phantom Tollboth" by Norton Juster

[Anonymous No.20834272]

fire

[Anonymous No.20834279]

>>20834272
actually this was better

[Anonymous No.20834325]

The first couple Artimis Fowls. Still mad what the mouse did to the movie.
>>20834267
This was the first book truly loved as a kid, what a classic.

[Anonymous No.20834336]

mein kampf

[Anonymous No.20834347]

when i was a kid i wanted to read pic rel because I heard on a yt video that Adventure Time was slightly inspired by it, unfortunately, my parents didn't support me when it came to reading, and to this date I have got the chance to check 'em out

[Anonymous No.20834572]

newspapers,magazines and disney comics

[Anonymous No.20834586]

>>20834572
>disney comics
like duck comics? those by Banks and Rosa are kino

[Anonymous No.20834596]

>>20833460
Animorphs was based as fuck

[Anonymous No.20834611]

>>20834586
yes also Mickey Mouse Magazine

[Anonymous No.20834886]

>>20833538
damn I forgot about that one

[Anonymous No.20834892]

>>20833453

[Anonymous No.20835438]

>>20834187
please has anyone read hellhole but me does it exist

[Anonymous No.20835444]

>>20833453
cute cat

[Anonymous No.20835561]

>>20833453
Unironically

[Anonymous No.20835570]

>>20834214
I am the Marketing Director at DB Schenker

[Anonymous No.20835637]

>>20833453
Amazing Mazes.
Thought I had an image but I don't so you get this.

[Anonymous No.20835853]

>>20833453
wind in the willows. Thanks nan

[Anonymous No.20835858]

>>20833453
Knights of the Crusades by Jay Williams

[Anonymous No.20835878]

>>20833453
Pleebo's Regrets. Pleebo can never make amends with those he's wronged, and the guilt will always be within him. But he has to live with it, has to do the best he can. And that message has always stuck with me.

[Anonymous No.20835906]

>>20835878
oh man i totally forgot about the pleebo series

[Anonymous No.20835952]

>>20835906
Yeah they left a deep impression on me. My Austrian aunt would get me a new one as a Whitsun gift each year. Picrel is good too.

[Anonymous No.20835968]

>>20835878
>>20835906
>>20835952
Mindelman was verifiably an ultra-creep. There's a reason these are out of print.

[Anonymous No.20836043]

[Anonymous No.20836056]

>>20833453
the mysterious island by jules verne

[Anonymous No.20836078]

>>20834267
Based. This is undeniably one of my favourite books they made me read at school.

>>20835853
I still love how The Wind in the Willows is a perfectly normal children's book about talking animals, but in the middle it has one chapter about ancient Greek gods which is completely unrelated to the rest of the story and none of the characters overlap with the rest of the book at all. That really elevates it as a classic for me.

>>20836043
My primary school teacher saw me reading these and asked to borrow one and then never gave it back lmao

[Anonymous No.20836167]

>>20833532

yeah, redwall was dope.

[Anonymous No.20836173]

Skullduggery Pleasant
Bartimäus

[Anonymous No.20836195]

>>20833532
>>20836167
Redwall is what got me into reading, extremely comfy world.

>>20835878
>>20835906
>>20835952
The Pleebo books freaked me out as a kid. Not a fan.

[Anonymous No.20837636]

>>20836078
>never gave it back
I think she was taking it from you...because you weren't supposed to be reading it in class.

[Anonymous No.20837660]

>>20835906
Weird...there seems to be no trace of "The Agonies of Pleebo" by Mort Mindelman, on either Google or Bing.

[Anonymous No.20838383]

I was only reading some comics I tried once to read Harry Potter but I couldn't finish it
and This is ironic because I now read dozens of pages at least every day

[Anonymous No.20838413]

The Recognitions by Gaddis. Then I turned 17, grew up, and stopped reading children’s literature

[Anonymous No.20838471]

This shit was my favourite to get read as a wee child

[Anonymous No.20838483]

Read it when I was 12 because animals as protagonists are cute.

[Anonymous No.20838510]

>>20838483

same.
the cartoon movie adaption scared the shit out of me though.
the second and third part are rather a good read, too.

also: what is /lit/s opinion on Pirincci, considering he is a raging racist?

[Anonymous No.20838524]

>>20838510
Later in my life when I read all his books - especially the very first one he wrote - I already knew the guy was a ticking time bomb. Pirincci being a raving lunatic was also what made up half of his appeal. Kinda regret getting basically all his books though.

[Anonymous No.20838535]

>>20833453
Harry Potter, I guess, though I came of age before all of it was done
>at a book fair with mom
>HP 1&2 are everywhere, 30+ yo people swarming the stands
>mom asks the vendor if it suitable for a young kid
>some 40-looking customer lady paints it as the greatest supernatural thriller ever written, as if Silence of the Lambs was a cartoon

I read Hobbit and liked it, didn't fall of LotR as much though. I fwwe are talking really early, it's Winnie the Pooh

[Anonymous No.20838537]

Count Karlstein

[Anonymous No.20838597]

>>20837660
Huh. Could be an issue with your browser.

[Anonymous No.20838847]

>>20838597
Somehow I doubt that.
But hey, post a link to what you're talking about & maybe that'll work.

[Anonymous No.20839291]

>>20833453
>>20834892

[Anonymous No.20839536]

I liked the magic tree house series as a young kid

[Anonymous No.20839555]

>>20835952
have you read pleebo and the wet afternoon?

[Anonymous No.20839851]

>>20833453
depends how young a kid.
> elementary school
The Myth-Adventure series
> middle school
Battle Royale
> High School
Dune

[Anonymous No.20840576]

[Anonymous No.20841441]

>>20833453
Animorphs