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Children's books that stand up to re-reading as adults.

Pic very Related.

>> No.2317892

harry potter. seriously.

>> No.2317899

Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

>> No.2317900

>>2317899

I was going to say Phantom Tollbooth. I actually got a copy from my parents for Christmas. I nostalgia'd pretty hard while reading it.

Also, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

>> No.2317902

Alice In Wonderland, Peter Pan, Coraline

>> No.2317903
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2317903

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry mutherfuckers

>> No.2317911

>>2317903
i'm sure i saw an anime version of this as a child. like he came to earth and ate sandwiches on a barge

>> No.2317920

>>2317911
wait... just sad

>> No.2317921

A. A. Milne!

>> No.2317925

>>2317900
Im >>2317903
let's be realistic, Through the Looking Glass is a big piece of shit

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>>2317925

>Through the Looking Glass is a big piece of shit

>Jabberwocky
>The Walrus and The Carpenter
>Tweedledum and Tweedledee

>> No.2317938

>>2317925
nigga you never been so wrong before

>> No.2317939

>>2317930
you forgot humpty-dumpty... still thinking it's a big piece of shit.

>> No.2317946

>His Dark Materials
>Children's book
It's fantasy legitimised for the mainstream by dressing in "for the kids" nostagiadrag. See also, the later Harry Potters (except Pullman is actually worth reading, obviously).

>> No.2317950

The giver by Lois Lowry.

>> No.2317954

The Chronicles of Narnia. Seriously, I didn't notice all the Christian mythology and his ideas about the very nature or nature as a 10 year old.

>> No.2317958

>>2317954

They're horribly written though. Seriously, loved them as a child, hated them as an adult. The christian symbolism was ridiculously ham-fisted.

>> No.2317960

>>2317946

>Dat Chess symbolism.

>> No.2317961

LotR, A Christmas Carol, Gulliver's Travels, 1984, American Gods, The Wind In The Willows, Casino Royale, Frankenstein, the Discworld series.

>> No.2317963

>>2317961
Not sure if troll...

>> No.2317964

>>2317963

Of course it's a fucking troll.

>> No.2317965

>>2317958
It was hard reading them again, I nearly gave up on the fourth one, but I'd rather shut myself in my room reading childhood classics than spend time with the family at Christmas.

I was in love with the Alex Rider series, even going so far as to rack up 2000 plus posts on their forum ( I was 13 with too much time) but it was interesting reading them again, I wouldn't recommend it for someone who didn't read it as a kid though, the teenage boy cliches do get old. It was my boyhood fantasy though.

>> No.2317967

>His Dark Materials
>Good

Ok, the first book is pretty good, but the second two are terrible. People here think "The Chronicles of Narnia" are ham–fisted, but at least they had "The Silver Chair" to redeem them. "His Dark Materials" isn't even as well–written as Lewis, whatever Narnia's other flaws.

>> No.2317968

>>2317963
If it's going to stand up to adult revisiting then we're more likely to be talking stuff for 12 year olds than 8 years olds right?

>> No.2317969

>>2317960
Meant to reply to
>>2317930

>> No.2317970

No one's said The Animorphs? fuck you guys.

>> No.2317973

>>2317965
Alex Rider, jesus I remember them. Can't imagine them being any good now...

A Series of Unfortunate Events though, that could be interesting...

>> No.2317975

The first 3 Artemis Fowl books?

>> No.2317976

>>2317973
A Series of Unfortunate Events holds up surprisingly well.

>> No.2317978

>>2317964

To be fair, I did read a few of those when I was a kid, although that had more to do with me being a friendless loner with an imagination instead of a social life. LOTR was boring for me as a kid, bar perhaps the Fellowship, and when I read the series again, it was still very mind-numbing. Nineteen Eighty-Four was quite interesting for me as a 11 year old, didn't quite understand Goldstein Oligarchy part, the idea of room 101 scared the shit out of me though. Reading it again was a great experience, I do so every now and again just to draw correlations with society today.

>> No.2317983

>>2317969
that makes more sense, of course it wasn't a legal set of moves

>> No.2317985

>>2317973
I read the new one which came out 6 months or so, it was the usual quality. I couldn't enjoy it like I used to, it felt like I was reading fanfiction, perhaps that part of my mind which was easily stimulated has gone now. I was very upset afterwards, it's almost as if a chapter in my life has ended, I would never be able to fantasise about fucking Sabina Pleasure again, damn Alex. The ending was a little shocking, I won't spoil it for you.

I hear they are doing one on Yassen's youth though, I'll inevitably end up buying it, no matter how trashy it is.

>> No.2317988

>>2317958
>Hating on literature because of christian symbolism

>>>www.reddit.com/r/atheism

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>>2317882
Not this one

>> No.2317991

>>2317967

The second two were quite hard to get through, but I'm sure everyone was bawling at the end when Lyra and Will were split asunder. I did like those little people, the whole idea behind them was rather cool, fuck I can't remember what they were called.

He's going to release a two part novel, the Book Of Dust, in a couple of years. It's going to be set four years after the whole Dark Materials trilogy, I'm looking forward to it actually.

>> No.2317992

>>2317985
I always wondered when I was younger at what point I would stop reading kids books like Alex Rider. Dunno when the transition actually happened now that I think of it.

The Saga of Darren Shan! I bet that would still be fun to read now.

>> No.2317993

>>2317988
it's the use of the symbolism, not the symbolism itself. you can't read aslan's sacrifice in lion witch and wardrobe without feeling like it's proselytizing

>> No.2317998

>>2317993
It's supposed to be proselytizing. Deal wif it.

>> No.2318003

>>2317998
THAT'S WHY I DON'T LIKE IT

>> No.2318004

>>2317992
He came to my school for signings and to read the first chapter of his new book, forgot which one and I never took the time to read his books, I regret it now, there were so many childhood classics I missed because my sister tried to get me to be a childhood genius by forcing me to read the proper classics.

Alas, it's something I can never properly enjoy now, just like jailbait.

>> No.2318007

>>2317998
I don't think its really proselytizing, I don't think Lewis thought a bunch of little tiny atheists are gonna read it and be converted.

>> No.2318025

>>2317988
>>2317998
the problem isn't that it has christian symbolism, it's that it's allgeorical (cf tolkien against allegory) and generally shitty and hamfisted. i'm perfectly okay reading catholic stories. i like it. i find it interesting. the narnia stories are really shitty and they do it in the most broad, uninteresting way possible. i don't dislike it christian, i dislike it because it's bad. probably because CS Lewis was untalented.

Chesterton & Tolkien >>>>>> Lewis

>> No.2318035

>>2317988

I don't hate it because of Christian symbolism, I said the symbolism was ridiculously ham-fisted.

>> No.2318036

Honestly? Animorphs.They have little to no literary merit, but I can see why young me was so infatuated by the series, especially once it hit its stride. I'm also kinda amused by how I could read about a bear, slipping around in its own blood, ripping an aliens arm off and beating said alien with it at 10 but was such a little pussy about blood in movies.