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Books from our childhood?
Let me start with this wonderful series.

>> No.3342180
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>> No.3342186
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Fuck yeah.

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>> No.3342236

Bump.

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>> No.3342268

>>3342251

Brofist. Alexander grew up in my home town and The Book of Three was my first bilio-obsession. I have a gracious letter from him somewhere in response to my 10-year-old ramblings.

>> No.3342271
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yeaaaahhhh niiigggaaaaa

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yyyyyeeeeaaaahhhhhh niiiiiiggggaaa pt.2

>> No.3342277

>>3342268

That should have read "biblio-obsession" which isn't even a word, but you get my drift.

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Rest in peace, you wonderful woman you.

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YYYEAAAAHHHH NIIIIIIGGGGAAAAA pt.3

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>>3342162
Suddenly, anime.

>> No.3342295

>>3342162

I remember reading the first book, but don't remember anything about it at all.

>> No.3342297

>>3342295
Pretty generic fantasy series, collect a set amount of magical stones and defeat the dark lord, all that jazz.
I found it entertaining, though.

>> No.3342305
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Books I remember standing out to me were The Cay, Hatchet, The Hobbit, Goosebump books, Deltora Quest and Harry Potter.

>> No.3342306

>>3342305
Fuck you for making me remember.
All of my tears.

>> No.3342309

>>3342305

Yet another book from my childhood I know I read but remember nothing about.

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I remember having to read these in secret because the school had deemed them 'too vulgar'.

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>>3342314
And while we're on that topic, so were these.

>> No.3342331

>>3342162
That is the SICKEST cover I've ever seen.

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Fuck yeah.

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>No Artemis Fowl
Come on, /lit/

>> No.3342344

>>3342338

gay

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May have gotten me interested in literature.

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The movie was alright.

>> No.3342359

>>3342338

yyyyeeeeeaaaahhhhh niiiiiigggggaaaaaa pt.4

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Have some nightmares.

>> No.3342376

>>3342297
What's this? A zelda rip-off?

>> No.3342378
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My favourite books from when I was a kid

>> No.3342398

>>3342363
Those fucking illustrations...ughh..

>> No.3342421

>>3342378

So what are you, just under 100 years old?

Forgive me but this sounds like some typical /lit/ patrician pandering. I'm sure kids enjoyed these books back when they were relevant but there is no way that you understood the significance and the mythology of the gold rush era or romanticism when you were a kid.

>> No.3342428

>>3342421
Are you serious? I'm not him but those were among the books my parents would read to me and my siblings before we could ourselves.
How old are you?

>> No.3342461

>>3342421

My nine year old daughter is reading White Fang and enjoying the hell out of it.

If there's any "patrician pandering" around here it's the notion that kids need to grok the mythology of the gold rush to enjoy an adventure story featuring a bad ass wolf.

>> No.3342470

>>3342461
thirsty, bro?

>> No.3342478
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need /lit/ help with fantasy nostalgia

it was a book about a one eyed wizard who participated in a fighting tournament. The story was set in a large city with 4 faculties/guilds, each with different requirements and members. Throughout the book the wizard got himself to all 4 the guilds and everything was well in the end.
The centre of the city had a large pyramid as basis, something like in the pic.

that's all I remember, it was a single book for about 350p thick.

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>>3342421

Are you saying that because as a child I couldn't understand the books significance, I couldn't enjoy it?

>> No.3342519

>>3342470

You lost me. But then again, I'm nearly 40 and not from these parts.

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Omg this forum is full of fucking babbies, I was reading this shit when I was 12 years old, fuck you ignorant mainstrem losers

>> No.3342554

>>3342519
You don't grok, then?

>> No.3342559

I used to read pleb shit like Stephen King and Asimov

>> No.3342570

>>3342554

Ahh, I've gotten casual with the term, I'd forgotten its literal etymology. Thanks for the "refresher."

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>>3342549

>someone posts children books and says he liked them as a child

>omg lol u sooo old, or maybe just edgy, ammirite XD? trolololololo, you got le epic pwnd ftw

I weep to think there are people on /lit/ who cant understand children reading children's books such as Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe

>> No.3342580

>>3342570
Badum tsh! Nicely done.

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>>3342575

>/lit/ meets IRL to discuss "literature"

>> No.3342618

HOW HAS NO ONE MENTIONED ANIMORPHS

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I remember liking these books a lot in my youth. If I didn't have a ton of books to read I'd read them once again.

>> No.3342725

>>3342618

Mainstream pleb garbagio.

>> No.3342760

Animorphs. That is all.

>> No.3342773

THE HARDLY BOYS! TWO YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS WHO

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best kids' lit

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Really? Nobody here posts the most traumatizing children's book series of all time?

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>>3342860
>nobody
>two people have already posted it
>one of them is only a couple of posts above you

>> No.3342868

>>3342860
It's been mentioned at least twice before your post, you garbage.

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Did anyone else read the Demon Headmaster series?

>> No.3342878

>>3342778
Remembered reading this in a week or two.
Some of the first books I read.

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This fucker right here!
That encounter with the first witch, and the ending where the boy turned rat accepts his fate, and says it's okay since now he and granny would die at roughly the same time.

Real feels for the kids.

>> No.3342894

>>3342881

That's horrifying even though forced transformation and eventual acceptance is my fetish

>> No.3342902

>>3342865
>>3342868

I skimmed for pictures, since everyone started out with those. It's almost as though most people ignore posts that just include text.

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This was awesome.

>> No.3342925

-The Borrowers
-Goosebumps
-The Famous Five
-Just William
-Gulliver's Travels
-Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling was one of my favourite authors as a kid)
-The Secret Seven
-Swiss Family Robinson
-Everything by Roald Dahl

>> No.3342978

>>3342925

>Goosebumps

Those were fun.

>> No.3342996

Louis Sachar. Wayside School, Sixth Grade Secrets, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, Holes...

Good shit, /lit/. Good shit.

>> No.3343077

>>3342275
this nigga

>> No.3343088

>>3342778
>those deckled edges

I felt like such a badass reading them.

>> No.3344028

>>3342162
hahaha oh god, those books were written so poorly

possibly the least lucid fictional writing I will ever read in my life

>> No.3344036

>>3342314
my 5th grade teacher read those books to the class daily.

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Masterpiece

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>>3342354
I had a crazy experience as a kid reading the sequel to that book, Small Steps. For about 30 minutes I thought I was Armpit, and I cried because Armpit (who I thought I was) didn't get a letter back from some girl he was crushing on. I was like, devastated. One of the most ridiculous experiences reading a book I've ever had.

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I loved these. male btw

>> No.3344103

Anybody else remember the Jedi Apprentice series? Those books were actually really awesome. Every book was basically just an exploration of a different utopian or dystopian sci-fi setting, through the lens of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. Some of them were actually pretty thoughtful for YA books. I remember I could knock one out in like two hours and sometimes have a lot to think about afterwards.

Might download them or something and blast back through them. It'd be kind of cool.

>> No.3344108

ITT: I cried da babby tears wen my hero died in my pickshure book :'(

This is a board for discussing literature, not nostalgic garbage.

Go here instead if you want to talk about babby crap: www.loser.com

>> No.3344117

>>3344108
1/10

Children's lit is still lit, homie.

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>>3344120
That reminds me, in elementary school I always wanted to read this book because my friend loved the series but the length always scared me off (311 whole pages!)

>> No.3344148

>>3344123
I read the first one and enjoyed it, then got scared off by the massive amount of other books he wrote.

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Really, no one has read The Boxcar Children as a kid? Those and the Hardy Boys were personal Favorites.

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>>3344153
I liked the boxcar children books. Though I read them at the same time as I was reading these masterpieces, and they just didn't compare.

>> No.3344166

>>3342275
>>3344123
>>3344148
he was like the henry james of food descriptions

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>>3344153
>>3344161
The first 3 were amazing, then it felt too much like scooby doo with one pointless mystery after another.

I'm surprised no one mentioned these gems.

>> No.3344176

>>3342271

Aww shit, I read the first one.

>> No.3344177

>>3344153

holy shit, I forgot about both of those series.

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In grade 12 I was asked what my favourite book was - there was only one answer.

>> No.3344714

>>3342478

does a helping fantasy expert roam /lit/?

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I remember this book being amazing when I was a kid. Also, how has nobody mentioned the Narnia series yet?

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>> No.3344762

Stinky Cheeseman
The Giver
Phantom Tollbooth

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>>3342162
Circle of Magic, Tamora Pierce.
Well, this brings me back

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I read Jules Verne in the school library. I must've read pic related five times between years ten and twelve.

>> No.3344839

>>3344758
Wonderful book. I enjoyed his and Louis Sachar's more serious novels.

>> No.3345264

>>3344730
my nigga

>> No.3345302

>>3342162

That looks like a black knight from Dark Souls.

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Favoured by Blue Peter and such..