Favourite books from your childhood

[Dave D]

Favourite book school forced me to read-

 

 

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

That early? I didn't know that. Always though it was pretty grown-up stuff.

 

It was used to get over the controversial side of human nature, individual welfare versus the common good. 

[Dave D]

One I used to love reading but you dont hear of much any more- possibly because it encouraged kids to make and drink weird potions from anything they could find in the cupboard-

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

The Catcher In The Rye was a book an old teacher told me to read. I did, and to this day I fail to see what all the fuss was about.

 

Think the old cunt might have been trying to groom me.

 

Remember reading Alien and loving it, and Razzle was a real eye opener.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I remember Shakespeare boring me to death, we did both hamlet and Macbeth, utter shite. 

[VladimirIlyich]

We did it at school, think I was about 13/14 at the time. It was part of our CSE Curriculum.

Same here mate.

Juno and The Paycock too. (I think this indicated an Irish Catholic slant at the school!)

[Gruntfuttock]

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Same here mate.

Juno and The Paycock too. (I think this indicated an Irish Catholic slant at the school!)

 

I remember it split our class, the lads loved it, the lasses hated it...I wonder why. 

[Tony Moanero]

 

 

Briggs is boss.

[Tony Moanero]

Mrs Pepperpot was a bastard.

[Jairzinho]

I remember Shakespeare boring me to death, we did both hamlet and Macbeth, utter shite. 

 

We did The Tempest (utter shite) and The Merchant of Venice (ace).

 

That, Simon Armitage, and Carol Ann Duffy. Genuinely can't remember anything else from two years of English Literature.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

We did The Tempest (utter shite) and The Merchant of Venice (ace).

 

That, Simon Armitage, and Carol Ann Duffy. Genuinely can't remember anything else from two years of English Literature.

 

I got a Grade 1 in English Literature, probably one of my favourite subjects as well as Geography, Sport and Drama. The books which formed the curriculum were a bit hit and miss though. As I said, I found Macbeth utterly boring, but the teacher chose me to read the part of Macbeth whilst we recited the book so a lot of stuff stuck. 

[Gruntfuttock]

Kenneth Williams read some of these on Jackanory,

 

[RJ Fan club]

Fuck me, I'd completely forgot about Meg & Mog, this one in particular was a favourite.

 

 

Put Put Put...

 

My boy gets me to read that twice a week at least at the moment

[RJ Fan club]

Really looking forward to the kids (second due any day) getting to the point where I can go over my old favourites.

 

Loved Roald Dahl, specifically The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine and Danny Champion of the World.

 

My favourite book as a kid was probably The Times Atlas though. Literally spend untold amount time just pouring over it. Not sure I'll introduce the Kids to it though

[Tony Moanero]

[Tony Moanero]

Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl would have to be the favourites. Read every single one of their books when I was little.

 

 

That top makes you look like a bit of a quim.

 

 

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[TheBitch]

Along with heaps of those previously mentioned I was a fan of The Hardy boys books.

[cloggypop]

Magic Faraway Tree was surrealist anarchist bossness.

 

Loved it.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I wasn't much of a reader as a kid, but I enjoyed all the Paddington books, horror story collections published by Pan and those pocket comic books of war stories.

[manwiththestick]

Tim and the hidden people. I think there were about 32 books in the whole series, loved reading them as a kid. Tried to find them a while back but they no longer publish them, single books from the series going for silly money on Ebay.

[VladimirIlyich]

Topsy and Tim.

[Tony Moanero]

I, too, loved the Hardy Boys books.

[Tony Moanero]

I wasn't much of a reader as a kid, but I enjoyed all the Paddington books, horror story collections published by Pan and those pocket comic books of war stories.

 

These?

 

 

I loved these

 

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[AngryOfTuebrook]

That's them.