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ITT: Books series you read as a kid.

>> No.7539793

Fark this takes me back, I read this in 2004.

>> No.7539872
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>>7539784

>> No.7539874

Ulysses

Was okay but I was writing better material myself anyway

>> No.7539908

>>7539784
Earthsea Quartet was great

>> No.7539933

>The Homeric Poems, in original Greek.
Essentially writing for very young people. Romantic in the large sense.

>> No.7539968

Skulduggery Pleasant, skeleton detective.

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Who else /AsterixtheGaul/ here?

My kids will read those books, they're based af.

>> No.7540075

>>7540071
Fuck yes.

>> No.7540123
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Pretty much all of tamora pierces works kept me company, right up until now.

>> No.7540130

Cherub

>> No.7540134

Read Wizard's First Rule in 5th grade, finished up to Temple of the Winds in 6th grade, and had to wait till college until I could finish that series.....but I toughed it out in the end and felt it wasn't worth it afterwards :/

>> No.7540138

>>7539874
I read Ulysses when i was 16 or 17. I dont remember a lot, i remember i thought some part of book was "baroquish". I remember also going to my fellows, readers of Tom Clancy or GRR Martin and bragging i read post-modern literature. Beautiful times

>> No.7540139

My favourite books as a kid were Robinson Crusoe, LotR and the Iliad (all translated to German)

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>>7540139
I really liked my German Lord of the Rings too, I recall reading it to my dad as a child after he had read The Hobbit to me when I was younger, he wanted me to get good at reading.
We both enjoyed it, I like to think that we bonded over that experience.

Back then I got more into Treasure Island than Robinson Crusoe as far as I can remember

I also really enjoyed pic related on my own, sky pirates, wizards on floating rocks, it being one of the few fantasy settings that wasn't a Tolkien clone and the way the setting developed and evolved over the course of the series really appealed to me.
Amazing illustrations too

>> No.7540183

>>7540037
>>7540163
>>7540071
These were a big part of my childhood, also this one book that had a bunch of kids on an island in the lake just having adventures, sailing and making mischief by an Arthur something. Can't recall much about the book besides that I loved it and that it seemed unfair that kids could go and have such great fun when I couldn't go anywhere in the city. Cant find the book on the nets with what I have, sorry.

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>>7540183
Arthur Ransome. You might be interested to know it's actually a series of books, not just one.

>> No.7540345

>>7540186
Thanks anon, yeah those were them. Thanks for the recommendation, I never thought about them until now, but they were really comfy.

>> No.7541014

>>7540163
fucking this

>> No.7541252

I mainly read old regional tales, stories about knights, gestes, medieval battles and epic journey sailing the seas.

>> No.7541354

I liked it Earthsea.
Which reminds me - does anyone remember which book of the cycle was about a girl who was kept as a pet? Or am I confusing something?

>> No.7542621

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

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>>7539784

i was forced to read this serie and skipped a ton of pages

>> No.7542846

>>7539872
You would have to be a kid to enjoy this.

>> No.7542849
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>tfw you will never attend a Redwall feast in a year when Ambrose Spike has brewed his finest rhubarb wine.

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>> No.7542867

>>7540037
>>7540163
Holy fuck I never finished this

>> No.7542881

>>7540037
>>7542849
>>7539784
These. Also Artemis Fowl, Goosebumps and the Abhorsen trilogy.

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>> No.7542909

>>7542849
Don't make me sad, anon.

>> No.7542915

>>7542887
GOAT

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Along with detailed exegesis.

Plebs.

>> No.7542949

>>7539874
post it lying shithack

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>> No.7543014
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Broken Sky. I've never seen or heard anyone ever mention it, but I really enjoyed it. The cover caught my eye one day when I was shopping with my mom, so I asked her to get it for me. I liked it so I ended up getting all of them.

Picture isn't mine though, got it from Google.

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>>7539784
i never had anyone to play with, so i just read them. i had so many of the expansions.

>> No.7543103

>>7543014
10/10 series
I tried to see if I could order a complete set for my brother for Christmas.

>> No.7543125

>>7540037
holy shit i remember this, there used to be a shitty browser game for it as well

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>>7542887
the first thing I ever wrote was a ripoff of the one about ninjas in which I switched ninjas with samurais. the magic treehouse was cleverly changed to the magic canoe.
>>7542849
Martin the Warrior is the best one in the series

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>> No.7544515

>abhorsen
>his dark materials
>earthsea
>dalemark (and all of diana wynne jones' stuff desu)
>harry potter
>lost years of merlin
>artemis fowl
>ender's game/shadow quartet
>lord of the rings
>probably a bunch more i can't remember

good times desu

>> No.7544527

>>7540037
I read this a lot. I remember watching Beelzebub many years later, and being confused that it had a demon bird called an Ak-Baba in it, given that it's a creature specific to this series. Turns out Japan made a Deltora Quest anime that never got any American press. Blew my mind.

>> No.7544541

when i found out the rocks spelled DELTORA it blew my 8 year old mind and i was super proud of "figuring it out" before the characters did kek

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>>7542972
my favorite

>> No.7544628
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>>7539784
>>7540037
>>7542639
>>7542887
>>7542972
Pleb

>>7539968
>>7542849
>>7544515
Not pleb

>>7539908
>>7544559
Patrician

>> No.7544638

>>7544628
>books written to be read by children are ranked from patrician to pleb

Literally kill yourself.

>> No.7544649

>>7544628
I'll save that and use it as a reaction image in the future

>> No.7544693

>>7544566
I owned that entire collection of choose your own adventure books and they are brutal.

>Watch television or take a bath?
>bath
>While taking a bath your hairdryer falls into the water. You are dead.

>> No.7544765

>>7542867
Deltora Quest was pretty fun. The ending blew me away as a kid even though in hindsight it's super obvious. My favorite story was probably either the one about the Opal or the Lapis Lazuli though. The Ra-Kacharz and the Hive were pretty cool concepts

>> No.7544895

>>7540163
I actually bought all of these, even like the ninth one just for nostalgia's sake. The first 4 will always be the best though.
>>7544559
the middle of this series became really repetitive but it redeemed itself with the final three.

>> No.7544953
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>>7540071
Muh nigga
Who /TheAdventuresofTintin/ here?

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>>7544953

yep

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>>7544953
Yes lad.

>> No.7545631

>>7542639
someone should photoshop the last one to be "among the faggots" with a pic of a 4chan thread

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>> No.7545656

>>7545631
hello reddit

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shit was cash

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>> No.7546692

>>7542837
Loved this as a kid, probably only books I read without skipping at that age.

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and Shel Silverstein poetry collections (if they count)

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>>7539784
>>7540037
>>7540071
>>7542849
>>7542972
>>7544566
>>7544628
>>7544953
>>7545684
Fuck. This brings me back. Hard.
>Tfw you probably read more books as a kid

>> No.7548158

>>7545684
my nig nog

>> No.7548199
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Who /djinn master race/ here?

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>tfw you will never live in prehistoric Europe

Haven't read the last couple though.

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>>7539784

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>>7549018
That was great. Pic related was my favourite book.

>> No.7549254

>>7540037
I read theis one and thought it was so stupid, i also forgot how bad the cover art was.

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>> No.7549286

>>7548199
these were so fucking great

>> No.7549338
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This one was pretty neat, has anyone here read it?

>> No.7549556

>>7543014
I had two of these books, but never ended up reading them.

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Read a few of these as a kid. Never did finish the series.

>> No.7549665

>>7548199
Fuck yeah.

>> No.7549693

>>7549562
The true GOAT

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>>7539784

and of course Roald Dahl, though never Charlie and the factorieuse du chocolate

>> No.7549745

>>7549693
it's a cheetah you dunce

>> No.7549769

>>7549745
:^) desu

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I worshipped Darren Shan in middle school. Then I I started getting older as the demon books were coming out and I saw them for the shit they were. Never did finish that series.

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>tfw i'm a fedora-tipping heretic now

>> No.7549830

>>7543137

That's not how you spell Pearls of Lutra, anon.

>> No.7549839

>>7544953
my negro

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>> No.7549852
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Traditional English books for children that nobody has heard of, comin' through.

>> No.7549876

>>7549812
>tail two

ebin

>> No.7550168

>>7549876
u wot

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Am I the only one who read these?

>tfw always thought the parts where Mark and Courtney were fucking around in the real world were more interesting than Bobby's adventures in faggot lands A-Z

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>>7539784
Asimov FTW!

>>7542849
I really should get around to reading the last four books in this series.

>>7551577
>tfw I always skipped the Mark and Courtney sections because I cared only about the multidimensional adventures

>> No.7551693

>>7548199
I must have read each of those a dozen times

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>> No.7551707

>>7545673
Man this shit was so cool when i was a kid

>> No.7551708

>>7551700
hot damn the first series had a shitty artist. how did she end up with even worse?

>> No.7551735

>>7548199
best book series

a few years back a prequel was released too, pretty good desu

>> No.7551749

>>7551735
As a kid i wanted to see a bartimaeus movie be made so bad... then i saw how eragon turned out

>> No.7551794

>>7540037
best

>> No.7551813

>/lit/ actually loves YA
>nobody else is allowed to

explain yourselves

>> No.7551849

>>7551749
I went to see the eragon movie for my birthday as a kid after having read the books....that was a disappointing birthday

The only movie disappointment that topped that as a child was the last airbender

>> No.7551869

>>7548199
Is there a better YA series?

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