Books you used to love as a kid...

The Famous Five, Swallows and Amazons and The Wind in the Willows were my favourites. I enjoyed Jules Verne, H G Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I also went through a craze of reading Dennis Wheatley books.
 
buckeejit said:
I'm probably going to get flamed for this but I don't read much but my fave as a kid were the Goosebumps series of books :D
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Forgot about Goosebumps, they were all good. They also had a load of those adventure books too (the turn to page 5 to open the door, page 9 to turn back things).

JayMax said:
I think the Biggles books were pretty good when I was a kid. But I liked Warlord and Battle Action too back then :)
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And Biggles, how could I forget them, they were awesome!

I actually have all the Famous 5/Secret 7 and Boggles books in a couple of boxes somewhere, probably going to my kids (if I have any) when they are old enough, that's if they are in one piece because a lot of them were originally bought for my mother when she was young...:D
 
Amp34 said:
So i'm sure most people read when they were younger. My favourites were The Famous 5 and Secret 7
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I think I preferred Secret 7.

then The Hardy boys
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Oooh, I'm getting a raging clue! :p



I remember reading a lot of Dick King Smith, Tintin, and those adventure books. They came with dice and cyphers, you had to make decisions that would determine how the story progressed. They were awesome.
 
The Falcon's Malteser, kids detective novel. Funny in places, and very memorable. Over 20 years on and I can still remember the whole story, lines, scenes etc..
 
Best books I read before I was a teenager were The Hobbit and the Lord of The Rings trilogy (which I finished reading as a teenager)

I had an awsome book called The Usbourne Book of Diggers and Cranes! which was factual and had a lot of great illustrations. great boy stuff.
 
I have a quite ridiculously poor memory and can't remember much of what I read at all, got into the classic's in late teens, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Shakespeare.

The only books I can really remember were the Hobbit and Lotr, I remember my dad started reading The Hobbit and then the first of the trilogy to me when I was 7-8, then I finished the other two on my own. Beyond those nothing sticks out in my memory, maybe I read them too early and most other stuff seemed crap so it never really stuck in my mind massively. Whats really quite amazing, as I was bored so reading through Lotr again, is just how badly the films warped my memory of some of the events in the books. I've watched the films way too much and reading through again I'm constantly hitting bits where I just can't believe how different they are.

I know I've read the normal stuff, must have been mostly before I was 12-13, Swallows and Amazons, secret 7, lion the witch and the Jesus complex, of which the later really I do remember being great, but I can barely remember the other books.

Sucks having a bad memory, I can't remember that much of anything up till teenage years really, just some very vague stuff :(
 
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The old Doctor Who books by Target, Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts etc. I had a near perfect collection, still do infact. Terror of the Autons was a favourite. That Master bloke, a right ******* he was.
 
They are probably in here already but for me it was Hobbit (LoTR came when I was a little older) and any books by Brian Jacques. I think it was called the Redwall series about all the animals and that. Fantastic series of books, I read them until mid teens before I outgrew them.
 
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All Roald Dahl's kids books

Terry Pratchett

Fattypuffs and Thinnifers

The Last Vampire (the one with alucard not the teen christopher pike one)

a book about vampires by spike milligan that I can't remember the title of.

Redwall Series

The Chronicles of Narnia

Brog the Stoop

Loads more that I'm really frustrated at not being able to remember right now.

That was my real early stuff.
 
The faraway tree, five children and it, redwall, Asterix, TP's Discworld books from when the first game came out (about 10), Vlad the drac, most Roald Dahl, Just William, Sherlock Holmes in various incarnations, most things Dick King Smith or Jack London as well, HHGTG. I used to read loads as a kid, wish I read as much now

Amp34 said:
*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?
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Know exactly the ones you mean but also can't think of the title, fairly sure I'll have them in my box of kids books I'm saving for when I have my own so can check later on.
 
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