Books you used to love as a kid...

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So i'm sure most people read when they were younger. My favourites were The Famous 5 and Secret 7, then The Hardy boys and another one similar* when I got older.

So what were your favourite books when you were younger?

*Can't remember the series name unfortunately. It was about a pair of brothers that used to go catching animals for their parents(?) zoo and always ended up in trouble, thwarting poachers and such. Anyone know what they were called?
 
Brave New World, The Stand, LoTR, Dune, Foundation, Do androids dream of electric sheep, Make Room, Make Room, Anything by HG Wells, 2001.

and loads of others.
 
Never heard of the Faraway Tree, probably would have been good to read if it was along the same lines as the other two.

Enid Blyton really did love fanny though... (Sorry had to be put in there :o, there seems to be one in all her books.)
 
Faraway Tree was brilliant. Good old Moonface, and I always wanted to meet Silky.
Pretty much went the same route as OP, altho I'd include the Five Find-Outers And Dog in the Blyton phase, and then the Three Investigators in the crappy-American-teen-fiction phase.
 
Amp34 said:
HHGTTG?

How old were you reading LOTR? Must have been mid teens rather than 10 I guess?
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I'd read LOTR and HHGTTG by 11. Then got obsessed with the Dune books and to a lesser extent the prequels that came out after.
 
Before I crashed in to the awkward world of teenager-dom, my favourite book might just have been Danny, the Champion of the World. I actually have a copy of it somewhere, just for old times sake. :o

Then again, my favourite might have been The Demon Headmaster. :D

By 14 that honour had fallen to Fellowship of the Ring, and remains so to this day.
 
Goosebumps :p

more seriously, i read a fair amount of the Star Wars extended universe when i was younger. School Library had the Thrawn Trilogy, which was awesome.
 
The Three Investigator stuff kept me avidly reading when I was a kid (I was so disappointed when I found out Alfred Hitchcock didn't actually write them!) I soon moved on to more adult sci-fi stuff and can remember a Teacher taking one of Sven Hassel's books off me in primary school as he thought it wasn't suitable for me to read!
 
Oooh add Five Children and It to my list. along with the one mention in the OP. Loved the Secret 7/Famous 5 books.

I also really like the ..... Adventure books by Willard Price.
 
I had a big pile of old Enid Blyton books, the ones I remember clearly were The Faraway Tree and Bimbo & Topsy.

First book I remember buying with my own money was the Adrian Mole Trilogy (as it was then) which I have re-read countless times. Every time I read it I notice something different and realise it really wasn't aimed at kids at all.

Also read a book called Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan, not really suitable for kids but I read that when I was 8 or 9 I think.

In my early/mid teens I got quite into Stephen King. Never really stopped reading his stuff, I'm just getting into "Under The Dome" now actually.
 
Used to love the Tripods books by Samuel Youd/John Christopher as well :) Being turned into a film as well.


This thread has actually brought back some really good memories, would love to read some of these again but I'm afraid the memory is better than the book :(
 
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