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Who were your favorite authors from your early childhood. Mother Goose and Brothers Grimm aside.

>> No.6021434

When I was seven I convinced the neighbor girl whose mother was my babysitter to put my head between the cushions of her couch, with my face protruding, and then sit on my face. Then her friend came over and did it too. We were all in the same class at school but I didn't know the girl that well.

I was seven, man. What the fuck was I reading that made me do that? Do you know?

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>>6021434
Maybe your uncle touched you

>> No.6021447

Louisa May Alcott. I was fascinated by Little Women.

>> No.6021448

>>6021447
Oh, and Jungle Tales by Horacio Quiroga. Really nice stuff.

>> No.6021449

Louis sachar

>> No.6021954

>>6021448
>Jungle Tales by Horacio Quiroga
That's not appropriate for a kid.

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>> No.6021993

>>6021420
but the grill in the second pic seems nice

>> No.6023867

>>6021420
My dad would read to me since I was like two and it was the best stuff.

Winnie the Pooh, Jeeves, Narnia, "When we were very young" (poetry by Milne)

GOAT stuff I love to this day.

>> No.6023897

Tolkien dawg.

I wish I could've read the Brothers Grimm in German like I can now when I was a kid, that would've been baller.

>> No.6023898

Wind In the willows, comfy as fuck

>> No.6023900

>>6021420

Children's lit is the shit.

>A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
>C.S. Lewis (Narnia)
>Lloyd Alexander (Chronicles of Prydain)
>Brian Jacques (Redwall)
>Ursula LeGuin (Earthsea)
>J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
>Robert Lois Stevenson (Treasure Island)

>> No.6023907

>>6021420
Roald Dahl obviously

>> No.6023909

>>6021420
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>Michael Ende
>Brain Jacques also

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>>6021447
>I was fascinated by Little Women

well, who isn't

>> No.6023926

>>6023920
That's a pretty low blow

>> No.6023929

Salamn Rushdie's Harum and the Sea of Memories is pretty dope. It has adventure, interesting side characters and a general "reading is good and necessary" moral.

>> No.6023948

Erich Kästner.
Fucking god.

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This

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>>6021434
You didn't mean it in a sexual way, man.
You weren't stroking your baby-penis when you were sucking on your mommy's nipples.

>> No.6024792

>>6024785
Thats not what Freud says.

>> No.6024804

>>6024792
Freud was a pseudoscience medicine man bullshit huckster on coke.

>> No.6024806

The Hobbit
le petit prince

>> No.6024822

>>6024804
who shaped modern psychology. Its the same reason why people still read the greeks, not that their views are still held universaly but that they inspired everything else.