What shitty book series did you read back in middle school?

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Anonymous Fri Nov 4 01:52:26 2016 No.8690974 [Reply] [Original]

What shitty book series did you read back in middle school?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 01:53:44 2016 No.8690983 I had a Dickens phase while everyone was reading Artemis Fowl.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 01:56:05 2016 No.8690990 File: 37 KB, 420x704, deathstalker.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8690974 I read the entire Owen Deathstalker and Dark Tower series.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 01:56:47 2016 No.8690991 File: 1.27 MB, 296x160, 1464839045912.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8690983

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 01:58:22 2016 No.8690995 >>8690991 What did he mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 02:01:07 2016 No.8691004 >>8690990 I read the dark tower series too. Stopped after the the 3rd one though, can't remember why.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 02:03:00 2016 No.8691008 >>8690974 >Riordan moved on to Norse now wew what

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 02:03:22 2016 No.8691010 >>8691004 The fourth one was the second best, I thought. It was a flashback to Roland's past. Probably not worth it to read them anymore, and they kind of took a nosedive after the fourth.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 02:09:24 2016 No.8691021 >>8691010 Yea. Reading any big book series seems to much of a commitment to me. I feel like I would have to start reading from the beginning and I don't want to do that. I rather read other stand alone novels.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 02:11:43 2016 No.8691024 >>8691008 haha.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 02:18:30 2016 No.8691036 >>8690974 Artemis Fowl, Alex Rider, Septimus Heap

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 02:19:49 2016 No.8691038

>>8690974
Oh man, Percy Jackson. I remember liking the first one okay but then the second one did nothing but rip off the Odyssey. Like the first one used elements and characters from Greek mythology to tell an original story, but the second one was just a scene for scene remake of the Odyssey. Then by the third book I was getting sick of the"take mythological thing and make it modern" gimmick so I quit.

Also
>that scene where they casually address the fact that God doesn't exist and every surviving religion is wrong
>it's implied that Percy is attracted to the daughter of Athena girl even though they're related

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 02:40:39 2016 No.8691065
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I read this and Daniel X in the 8th grade.

I remember hating Daniel X so fucking much just because the main character say something on the lines of "I'm better than Spider-Man."

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 02:45:26 2016 No.8691073 darren shan, that vampire story i wanna re-read it now

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 02:46:44 2016 No.8691075 >>8690974 none, i was playing final fantasy and masturbating to dickgirls. Then i read proust

>>	Alice Mizuki !3mD1ZWydrQ Fri Nov 4 03:31:49 2016 No.8691148 >>8691075 upboattt xDDDDDD

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 05:15:05 2016 No.8691282 File: 60 KB, 762x332, 120629be48ebecf988a0a23c1fd9979134b136.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] had the first 3 books i liked the world building

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 05:19:59 2016 No.8691288 >>8691282 wat is this

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 05:29:28 2016 No.8691307 >>8691148 Take off the trip, faggot

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:04:00 2016 No.8691931 >>8691148 The first book to make me cry

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:05:03 2016 No.8691932 >>8691282 >>8691931

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:17:17 2016 No.8691957 >>8691038 Later in the series its implied that God does exist and may or may not be missing. Riordan seems to be setting up for a clash of pantheons or something.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:24:14 2016 No.8691973 >>8691957 the riordian cinematic universe honestly that would be pretty cool if you were 12. the issue is by the time he finishes the fifteen series he's writing write now all of the kids who are reading them now won't care

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:00:48 2016 No.8692087 >>8691038 Actually they didn't deny the truth of any religion, as I recall he said something like "sure there might be angels flying around and a god above, but which is more fun?"

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:29:11 2016 No.8692187 >>8690974 honestly The Lightning Thief is decent for what it was, don't hate

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:35:20 2016 No.8692216 >>8690974 >shitty Yeah its for a younger audience so it must be shitty! Get over yourself, I'm sure whatever "shit" book series are mentioned ITT are a large part of what led you to what you enjoy reading now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:37:36 2016 No.8692226 >>8692087 Really? I thought there was a conversation when he first arrives at the camp and meets Dionysus along the lines of >So there's no God? >Capital G, no. But there are plenty of gods.

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 15:21:06 2016 No.8692627

>>8691038
They just brushed it aside, Percy asks:
"Does that mean God's not real?"
And the Centaur teacher goes:
"Capital G God? That's a question for another time."

Also, it gets pretty good halfway through the third one, one of the bitchy amazon chicks gets straight up murdered by a gargoyle or something like that. I remember reading an article about how it was the turning point of the series from "light kid's fiction" to "dark, young adult" but sadly, I never finished it.

>>8691065
Maximum Ride was my shit! It's literally what got me into reading and I realized books could actually be entertaining and crazy awesome. The first three were amazing from what I remember, with the Final Warning being the point when they stated going down hill.
Max was the point where it was just frustratingly bad, I actually threw it across the room at one point. I remember there was a sticker on the back saying "Special Care has been taken to ensure the language and action is appropriate for all audiences, from age 9 to 99,"
Pissed me right off. Never finished any other ones after that but apparently they get ridiculous, I've always wanted to read them all at a straight shot, guess we'll see.

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 15:33:49 2016 No.8692664

>>8692226
I just remember a conversation between Percy and his (satyr?) teacher where the teacher is talking about the gods, then Percy asks him if the existence of the Greek pantheon means that God doesn't exist and the teacher says something like "That's metaphysics kid, we're talking about physics here."

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 15:36:53 2016 No.8692674 File: 98 KB, 296x158, fightme.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] fight me

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:11:59 2016 No.8692809 >>8692674 I pity you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:40:49 2016 No.8692883 >>8690974 Dune

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:42:56 2016 No.8692889 >>8692627 Maximum ride went to shit after the third book, he never should have continued it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:52:40 2016 No.8692920 File: 68 KB, 509x595, 9780375849916_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8690974 this shit in elementary

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:55:02 2016 No.8692936 >>8692889 The last book was a good ending but books 4-6 were a mess.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:56:11 2016 No.8692941 >>8691973 Honestly, I still order his books from the library just to see how he brings all this together.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:56:12 2016 No.8692942 File: 39 KB, 290x475, OTHERLAND.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Step aside niggers, ballin' series coming through.

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:01:47 2016 No.8692966
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I changed schools in 7th grade and sat in the back all the time reading this novelization series. I remember it fondly. I had no idea at the time it was an anime or even what anime was. Mind you this was in 1994 or so.

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:05:40 2016 No.8692989
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Not the last one, obviously, because it came out long after I left middle school.

Most of the shitty post-Harry Potter YA series came out when I was entering actual adulthood, though I did read the first two Artemis Fowl books when I was at elementary.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:33:50 2016 No.8693090 >>8691073 i read the first three of those

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:45:43 2016 No.8693134 farseer trilogy

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:55:45 2016 No.8693173 >>8690974 Fuck you i liked it. Though i did have a hard on for Greek mythology after i had read Homer's Odyssey .

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:58:50 2016 No.8693184

what i can remember (i wasn't really into series or anything)
>a bunch of hg wells books
>the call of the wild
>some book about a kid during the civil war. I remember his brothers both fought in it (one being with the union, and the other confederate), and also that the wikipedia page was vandalized as fuck.
>like half of frankenstein in a single sitting (shit's short, yo)
>like a third of 1984
>like half of the 2001 : a space odyssey novelization
>the hunger games series (we had to read these, i didn't much like them.)
gonna get autistic here, but the fact that the name of the country it takes place in (panem), is in the accusative kind of bugs me. I also think it's just kind of lazy (lol it's latin 4 bread so deep (cuz they're poor and don't have bread (and also panem et circenses (so deep)))).

I also remember some book about a kid whose little brother had leukemia, and then he like plays drums to cure the cancer or something.

desu i should have read more when i was younger.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:21:27 2016 No.8693263 >tfw never read Artemis Fowl solely because Artemis is a supposed to be a goddess, so I thought the main character would be some sissy faggot with a girl name

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:28:15 2016 No.8693283 File: 25 KB, 197x288, goblins_pb.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8690974 I read some of the Harry Potter series in middle school. I also read pic related.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:38:39 2016 No.8693322 >>8690974 ASOIAF

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 19:32:55 2016 No.8693511 Everyone is so young here.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 20:26:56 2016 No.8693705 >>8693511 :) Septimus Heap

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 20:58:43 2016 No.8693816 >>8690974 Lot of Artemis Fowl when I was in elementary school. I can't really remember what I liked in middle school. The Inkheart trilogy I guess

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 23:43:04 2016 No.8694316 >>8693173 Honestly Percy Jackson is what got me interested in Greek mythology in the first place.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 23:46:03 2016 No.8694327 >>8691282 I remember seeing a couple of of kids reading those. Always wondered what they were about but never bothered to read them.

Anonymous Sat Nov 5 04:32:42 2016 No.8694825

Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Artemis Fowl, Maxiumum Ride, Warriors, Watership Down, Redwall, Charlie Bone, Stroud's Batimaeus, Eragon, HP, Nancy Drew, Boxcar Children, pjo, the divide trilogy, anything by Funke or Sachar
>>8693816
inkheart was probably the most quality 'shitty' children's series i read

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 05:57:41 2016 No.8694924 Not sure what middle school is so I'm just gonna do primary school, which for me was just shit loads of R.L Stine and Andy Griffiths. I still remember laughing at the nerds who read Harry Potter.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 11:50:33 2016 No.8695501 >>8694825 i never finished the series, was the last book good? the first one was pretty decent iirc

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 13:17:39 2016 No.8695714 You're all so young. The Famous Five (Enid Blyton) Heinlein "juveniles"

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>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 13:45:53 2016 No.8695778 >>8690974 I loved this book series as a kid, but I'm pretty sure it was half the reason everyone in my class claimed they were dyslexic or had ADHD.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 17:56:42 2016 No.8696397 >>8691036 >Alex Rider Mah nigga

Anonymous Sat Nov 5 18:27:27 2016 No.8696483
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This series was so fucking good when I was in middle school/early high school. The first two still hold up very well, but the rest kind of fall short for me. The Bean series is shit though, really not a whole lot of good going on there, especially as it gets further along. Even at the time I knew it was a bullshit simplification of global politics.

>>8690974
I bump into people at college who still read shit like this. Really bothers me for some reason.

>>8692627
I gave up on the Final Warning, it was really just a cash grab at that point.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:11:12 2016 No.8696600 >>8695778 Holy kek.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:30:15 2016 No.8696648 >>8696495 i was too scared to read 'em

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:37:02 2016 No.8696660 >>8691004 there was a pretty big gap between with 3 and 4 were published i think.

>>	Ꭺnonymous Sat Nov 5 19:45:47 2016 No.8696685 File: 23 KB, 237x346, 51j+lHN2jHL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8690974 I got all four(?) books of The Seventh Tower for Christmas when I was in junior high. I wouldn't call it shitty but it had its flaws.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:54:09 2016 No.8696714 >>8691282 Great series. 2nd series is good too desu.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:55:17 2016 No.8696719 File: 394 KB, 551x330, ernl4j6dascshu6ess9s.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] These were my shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:56:23 2016 No.8696720 File: 148 KB, 334x500, pendragon-18.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8696719 >>8690974 also

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:56:26 2016 No.8696721 >>8696719 wtf how did he write a book after scorpia rising?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:58:00 2016 No.8696727 >>8696720 this series was my shit. i spent hours and hours on the forums for it. no idea why, i was way younger and the average person there and they constantly made fun of me, but i thought they were all cool. thanks for reminding me of this series man

Anonymous Sat Nov 5 20:00:15 2016 No.8696738

>>8691282
These were dope. My sister had all of the first two series so I read all those. In 5th grade I wrote and illustrated a 10-page fan fic type of story and it was 'published' (bound and made hardcover, your elementary school might've done something similar)

Ꭺnonymous Sat Nov 5 20:01:40 2016 No.8696746

>>8696483
I liked Ender's Game until the end of the first book. That was way too cruel for me, and too much of a cruel joke, but I stuck with it and the next book was very good... until he pulled that shit again, and then again and again. There was the OCD girl, there was that business with the underage girl that had sex with a guard to be near her, there was the guy attracted to his sister unknowingly (and still attracted after it was known) and getting paralyzed for his efforts, there was Ender causing his AI friend to completely break down just because she couldn't hear him for a while (the fuck is that?), and then in the later part of the third book and the whole last book it just kind of became a mess. (I only read the main original series.) I appreciate knowing all that stuff for reference, and it killed time and some of it was enjoyable, but I kind of wish I'd never started reading them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 20:13:09 2016 No.8696787 >>8690974 I read those books back in Elementary school, and then I stopped reading books. Get on my level.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 20:13:19 2016 No.8696789 >>8692942 yeeeees

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 20:15:22 2016 No.8696794 >>8696727 It was pretty cool. It got crazy near the end!

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 21:06:05 2016 No.8696923 File: 80 KB, 511x640, MacdonaldHall.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Who /gordan korman/ here?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 21:21:44 2016 No.8696956 File: 18 KB, 192x289, 9780380727698_p0_v1_s192x300.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] these were actually dope

SomeDope !bLX/Zkrovs Sat Nov 5 21:23:18 2016 No.8696963
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No Garth Nix? I still like his books now honestly, the Abhorsen series was such a unique take on the fantasy genre and had a pretty cool focus on necromancy.

He also had the 'Keys of the Kingdom' series, which was pretty great in my opinion. Gets pretty dark too. Has to deal with the entire universe being dissolved into nothing and the main character has to defeat the rulers of the house that let the universe go to shit. With 7 books each themed after the days of the week I would say it was worth a look if you still have a thing for dark youth fiction.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 21:48:41 2016 No.8697037 >>8695501 It turns into Death Note.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 21:56:11 2016 No.8697059 >>8697048 Shit was cash, read it in elementary school. It actually holds up pretty well for something which is essentially the edgy kids harry potter, could have been a decent series for adults if he Stroud would have made it a more mature.

>>	Ꭺnonymous Sat Nov 5 21:57:55 2016 No.8697068 >>8696963 right here famalam >>8696685 never read any of his other stuff though >Keys of the Kingdom sounds good

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 21:58:08 2016 No.8697070 >>8697059 First book was fine in that regard. It was only the second book and after where they started introducing goofy skeleton man and jolly fat guy characters.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 21:59:59 2016 No.8697076 >>8690990 >>8690991 >>8691010 Whats wrong with the Dark Tower? What I read of it I really enjoyed. Sure its not the deepest shit ever but King delivered pretty well on the "reality is crumbling" premise.

Anonymous Sat Nov 5 22:05:57 2016 No.8697087

>>8697070
The entire series has the kinda child friendly dark humor to it, but the insane skelly demon could have been potraited better than just being a fanfiction joker copy with super powers. Thing is that I actually found him pretty scary as a child if thats anything to go by. He either should have written him as a delusional incompetent but still loveable and funny idiot with powers he cant control at all or as a serious and scary threat. Just shows that people cant write insane characters for shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 22:09:37 2016 No.8697093 >>8697087 Isn't it weird that the series actually takes place in the 1900s? I always thought it was 1800s but there is a part in the second book where they mention getting on a plane and that blew my mind as a kid.

>>	SomeDope !bLX/Zkrovs Sat Nov 5 22:10:23 2016 No.8697097 >>8697068 Oh whoops, I never actually read that series now that I think about it. I'll have to give it a shot

Anonymous Sat Nov 5 22:15:33 2016 No.8697106

>>8697093
The cars from the first book already got me. I was so hard wired to connect anything with magic to middle ages that I didnt even think about it taking place in modern times. If I remember correctly I even read the first book before Harry Potter.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 22:30:21 2016 No.8697158 >>8697048 This is the one thing I preferred listening to the audiobook version for. The guy did amazing job on it.

>>	SomeDope !bLX/Zkrovs Sat Nov 5 22:33:28 2016 No.8697170 >>8697068 Also I just noticed, Nix really has a thing for the number 7

Anonymous Sat Nov 5 22:35:13 2016 No.8697178
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This may have been a little before middle school, but I enjoyed the "Help I'm Trapped in...." franchise. It was fun bodyswapping stories.

>>8696483
I came here to post basically everything you said about the Ender series.

>>8696963
Garth Nix is great. I'm holding out hope Shade's Children gets made into a movie. Could be legit terrifying.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 00:15:41 2016 No.8697397 >>8696963 Keys to the Kingdom was the good shit when I was in like 4th-5th grade

Ꭺnonymous Sun Nov 6 00:28:34 2016 No.8697420

>>8697097
I liked it. It goes through several different worlds and really tries to make them all feel full and alive. It doesn't succeed as well as it could, but not much seems missing, I just wish the ice world actually functioning and an element or two of the ethereal world made a bit more sense. If the books were maybe 25-30% and there was an extra book somewhere everything would have plenty of breathing room and get established well, but it's meaty for kids' fare.

>>	Ꭺnonymous Sun Nov 6 00:29:23 2016 No.8697423 >>8697420 *If the books were maybe 25-30% longer

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 11:57:05 2016 No.8698864 >>8690974 Terry Pratchett. Could have been worse.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 12:05:10 2016 No.8698886 >>8691036 >Alex Rider Even as a kid, I thought this was steamy shit, how did you enjoy it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 12:18:52 2016 No.8698922 File: 210 KB, 1024x740, edge-chronicles-map-the-edge-1024x740[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >nobody has mentioned the edge chronicles

>>	Drug Thread Sun Nov 6 14:38:12 2016 No.8699342 File: 10 KB, 158x175, tight.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8692920 my nigga

Anonymous Sun Nov 6 14:38:21 2016 No.8699344

>>8690974
>Clarkes Space Odyssey (all 4 books).
Yes i was a nerdy kid, just now im seeing how in fact this series is filled with unimaginative ideas. It just reeks of pretentiousness and bullshit "realism". As bad as science fiction is, the hard sf subgenre is the shittiest.

Anonymous Sun Nov 6 17:03:38 2016 No.8699893
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>>8690974
I read this entire series in grade 5 or 6 because they made us read and I liked the covers. I can't remember if it was good or not, just remember it reminding me of legend of zelda.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 17:31:29 2016 No.8699980 >>8691008 So like God of War then?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 17:38:39 2016 No.8700001 >>8698922 I remember those being really fantastic, great world building. Interesting drawings and art too.

Anonymous Sun Nov 6 17:47:47 2016 No.8700027

You could write a dissertation on the impact Harry Potter had on fiction. You could argue that J.K. Rowling was the marketing genius of the 20th century. She published the formula to sell an "young adult" novel. She was inside the head of a lonely 13 year old girl and knew exactly the kind of fantasy world they desired. She is what Kanye was to Pop music with 808s. Everything successful today is literally a copypaste plus variation of her work. The setting and themes of Harry Potter wormed their way into film, spawned their own fucking genre of literature, hell we could argue half of all "teenage" anime is working off what Rowling created.
She created wish fulfillment as the driving force of any media marketed to the 12-17 demographic.
For this, she warrants reverance. Fuck her though.

"What if instead of wizards I write the same exact thing and strike my own movie deal?" -Rick Riaden

Anonymous Sun Nov 6 17:54:49 2016 No.8700052

>>8696495
I read maybe 7 of these books as a kid.
Welcome To Dead House is by far the best. It went a layer deeper than every other one of the novels, it was brushing the realm of psychological horror. I remember, even, looking through the others trying to figure out why none of them hit the mark that one did.

I also should mention I checked these books out of the school library and never returned them.

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Anonymous Sun Nov 6 19:22:32 2016 No.8700354

>>8696483
Oh god, my entire fifth grade year was centered around that series. Good times.

And this reminds me of something that's been bothering me since then: am I crazy or was there a giant retcon between Xenocide and Children of the Mind? I can't exactly remember the details, but there was something where all the characters unlearned a bunch of information about the philotic stuff and maybe parts of the ending as well. I remember being really confused and disoriented at the start of the fourth even though I had just read the one before.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 19:41:04 2016 No.8700420 File: 112 KB, 698x798, 1478445144344.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8693263 >tfw he is a sissy faggot but a smart sissy faggot

Anonymous Sun Nov 6 20:01:36 2016 No.8700493

>>8700052
I have Dead House along with thirty or so others, it's one that I never read.
Maybe I should.

Back in the 90's my mother would buy a new one for me for like every holiday.
Easter basket, goofbumps inside.
Halloween candybucket, goofbumps.
Christmas stocking, goofbumps.
Birthday, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Armistice Day.
GOOFBUMPS

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 20:45:05 2016 No.8700679 >>8690974 I'm a middle school teacher and this book is curriculum now.

Ꭺnonymous Sun Nov 6 23:33:59 2016 No.8701293

>>8700354
I had a sort jostled feeling too even though I read book 4 maybe a few days after book 3. I don't remember any discontinuity though, it just felt kind of rushed and compacted sand overreaching, like he was trying to really quickly establish this extradimensional bullshit and pay it off while also tying up the stories of Ender, the OCD girl's friend, and a bunch of other characters.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 23:41:07 2016 No.8701317 Eragon. I FUCKING LIKED IT Was waiting for the last book for the longest of time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 23:51:30 2016 No.8701348 >>8700679 Any cute girls?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 00:20:11 2016 No.8701405 >pendragon >vampire's apprentice >midnighters >percy jackson >keys to the kingdom >harry potter >series of unfortunate events I'm sure I'm mixing some up between elementary and middle school but whatever

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 00:32:51 2016 No.8701425 >>8693184 >like a third of 1984 I remember getting up to the sex and returning it straight to the school library.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 00:52:43 2016 No.8701466 >>8693184 >like half of frankenstein in a single sitting (shit's short, yo) Not really, the original is 200 pages and my pace is about 20 pages every 30-45 minutes. The Metamorphosis is a short book, should only take even me like an hour to read.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 05:15:47 2016 No.8701837 >>8699893 loved the puzzles in these they were sick

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 05:42:44 2016 No.8701866 >>8700027 Btu it's a children's book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 07:38:11 2016 No.8702062 >>8698922 these were my fucking shit, illustrations were great. Don't remember if it was shitty though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 07:56:53 2016 No.8702091 >>8702062 All YA is shitty.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 09:23:04 2016 No.8702260 >>8700027 I also know what lonely 13-year-old girls want, if you catch my drift. Also, self-insert anime existed long before HP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 09:30:00 2016 No.8702280 i unironically read the so extremely dark last book of harry potter

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 10:18:09 2016 No.8702378 >>8702091 I always thought the Edge chronicles were children's fantasy though. I loved the books throughout the latter half of primary school but looking back, they could be fairly brutal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 11:18:05 2016 No.8702505 C H E R U B H E R U B

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 11:32:26 2016 No.8702540 >>8691073 I read all of those, was awfully cozy as a kid. The whole demon saga he wrote afterwards started to fall apart after the 4th or so book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 11:55:46 2016 No.8702619 File: 8 KB, 220x122, Diary_of_a_Wimpy_Kid_logo.svg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8690974 This one up until the 6th one.

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 12:03:27 2016 No.8702643
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>>8690974
I remember my grandma really wanted me to read books but I never wanted to put in the effort so she bought me the simplified shortened versions of classics instead. I still have this book lying around somewhere.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 17:01:14 2016 No.8703616 I loved the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix when I was young. It was pretty good back then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 17:07:05 2016 No.8703644 File: 53 KB, 316x473, The Curse of the Gloamglozer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8698922 Who could forget the Gloamglozer?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 18:56:32 2016 No.8704016 >>8699893 I liked these too, as a kid. Can't remember if they're good either.

Kevan !0q0fLOYlE2 Mon Nov 7 19:12:01 2016 No.8704074

>>8691073
God tier
>>8691282
I liked it then I was like 11 and too old
Read Watership Down instead
>>8694825
>Watership down
It's too well written and mature to be lumped in with shite like redwall
>>8694924
I dont remember a single goosebumps book being good
>>8700304
Faggot
>>8701317
Oh god that book sucked hairy ballsacks
>>8702619
Lol no

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 19:20:36 2016 No.8704094

>>8690974
Eragon series. I havent reread it since then, but I enjoyed it at the time. I also read alex ridee, percy jackson, and pretty much anything else aimed at the pre-teen action/adventure market.

>>8702540
I remember reading that Demon Series as a kid. Not so great, but I liked it at the time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 19:25:56 2016 No.8704109 File: 393 KB, 1600x791, IMG_3675.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not gonna lie, I reread this every now and again just for nostalgia's sake. These books used to be my life though. Not awful for a kids series.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 19:29:45 2016 No.8704123 File: 359 KB, 1600x1050, 1475897099769.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8704109 >"For kids who love Harry Potter" lol they weren't even trying with that blurb.

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 19:33:56 2016 No.8704135
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I remember seeing Heart of Darkness on a poster and picking it up and enjoying it. Although, it was a horrid slog. Gaurdians of Gahoole(?) and Hank the Cow dog were great too.
>>8692989
I really loved Clan of the Cave Bears but I dropped the series after The Mammoth Hunters.
I went back to read Clan of the Cave Bears later but it was too crappy in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 19:39:05 2016 No.8704152 Conan, Doc Savage, Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan (reprints, not the originals) and anything dealing with teenagers and cars. I guess that I'm older than the parents of anyone else in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 19:39:54 2016 No.8704154 >>8704152 So, you read Street Car Named Desire?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 19:42:06 2016 No.8704160 File: 268 KB, 298x302, IMG_3677.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I feel like I'm the only one who ever read these...

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 19:44:12 2016 No.8704166 >>8704123 It was complete clickbate. They were absolutely nothing like HP, the only thing they had in common was the country they were set in.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 19:44:48 2016 No.8704168 >>8704154 >So, you read Street Car Named Desire? No, but saw the movie on late night TV as a kid. Didn't get it until I grew up.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 20:37:47 2016 No.8704334 >>8697076 It's actually fairly deep.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 20:43:53 2016 No.8704355 >>8704160 I also read it, though I have absolutely no recollection what it's about. I can still remember some plotpoints to certain Goosebumps books though, that one apparently wasn't memorable enough for my child mind

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 20:46:22 2016 No.8704364 >>8697397 The last few books definitely fucked with my perception of the scales of worlds in books. Even though the entire concept was pretty absurd, every other petty fantasy book I read after just seemed small and unimportant in comparison

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 20:50:35 2016 No.8704381 >>8704109 That 2nd cover would be pretty /lit/ if it wasn't on the roof of a car

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:32:31 2016 No.8704547

>>8690974
idk if I would call them shitty, they excited me at the time and bestowed a healthy love of reading.
Prydain Chronicles - Lloyd Alexander
Bartimaeus series - Jonathon Stroud
Redwall - Brian Jacques
Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Wind on Fire trilogy - William Nicholson
The Drizzt Series - RA Salvatore
The Sea of Trolls - Nancy Farmer
The Demonata - Darren Shan
Inheritance - Christopher Paolini(these really were shitty, I liked self-inserting while reading them though)

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 21:46:02 2016 No.8704600
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Thought these were amazing in in elementary and middle school. I outgrew it before the last one came out, I still entertain the idea of reading it for nostalgia's sake.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 22:20:45 2016 No.8704726 File: 93 KB, 250x365, The_Invasion_Front_Cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm too old for this board.

Anonymous Mon Nov 7 22:44:05 2016 No.8704809

>>8704160
>>8704355
um... something about preteen kids being revolutionary Marxists or something like that and being killed for it? One-child policy but instead of there being a penalty, the second child is killed?

I read it to a girl I looked babysat when she was like 11, and I know I read the first one when it came out (I was 10.)

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 22:53:54 2016 No.8704849 File: 88 KB, 329x500, Cry-of-the-Icemark-Stuart-Hill.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I didn't think reading could be enjoyable until pic related, never got around to the sequels though

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 7 22:55:54 2016 No.8704861 In elementary school I read spiderwick chronicles. On another note, I really enjoyed Captain Underpants. I probably still would.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 8 07:24:18 2016 No.8705733 >>8692226 Percy asks that centaur dude who responds by saying "that's another story entirely" or some non-commital answer to move past it quickly

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