Favourite books from your childhood

[Total Longo]

Is Lord of the Flies something people read as children?

 

We had to read it in secondary school. I quite enjoyed it, mainly because i had a fat kid with glasses sitting next to me who was clearly a character in the book. 

[Stickman]

Used to love reading these as a kid my brother would buy them and just leave them lying around, scared the shit out of me obviously but great to read......

 

 

 

 

And I remember reading this at school thought it was a brilliant book at the time by Keith Waterhouse

 

[Jairzinho]

Biggles.

[NoelM]

I loved the Michael Hardcastle football books.

Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, The Owl Service and Elidor.

I also loved the Chronicles of Narnia and Prydain.

[Kloppite]

The Munch Bunch series

 

 

Here is a picture of me wearing my Munch Bunch t-shirt and turd brown shoes and generally looking a bit of a bad ass, on, I think, a trip to London.

 

You don't look a bad ass but a right miserable bastard.

 

How old are you?

[Kloppite]

Anything by roald dhal except Danny champion of the world didn't really dig that or boy and going solo.

[Tony Moanero]

You don't look a bad ass but a right miserable bastard.

 

How old are you?

Man and boy, mate.

 

Three or four.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any kid would look miserable if their ma made them wear a cardigan like that!

[rubble-rouser]

I loved the Michael Hardcastle football books.

Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, The Owl Service and Elidor.

I also loved the Chronicles of Narnia and Prydain.

 

Great shout

[rubble-rouser]

Narnia books, 

Famous 5

Mr Twiddle, The Three Golliwogs and this beauty  

 

[Tony Moanero]

The Little Vampire books.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Mein Kampf

War and Peace

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings

Peter goes to the park

[Shitty Arse]

All the Enid Blyton ones and Roald Dahl. Then when I was 12 - 13 used to like reading James Herbert. The Rats trilogy I remember was good. Don't know if it's aged well. Read Hollywood Wives when I was about 11-12 and enjoyed the sex scenes. How times have changed for kids today. They can just go on Xhamster on their smart phones!

[Kloppite]

Man and boy, mate.

 

Three or four.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any kid would look miserable if their ma made them wear a cardigan like that!

I think it has caused severe emotional and deep rooted trauma.

[Champ]

I remember way back in junior school the teachers used to read us a book called Little Black Sambo. From what I remember it was a cracking little story of a tiger chasing a little black boy round a cooking pot, but several decades removed I can't help thinking that perhaps their was a slight racial undercurrent to that book.

 

Unbelievable really and no wonder it's taking so fucking long to rid our societies of racism when books like that were acceptable social norms and actively pushed upon impressionable young kids by the teachers themselves.

 

A few years later I also loved Kes and Lord of The Flies, just like PB.

I loved that book

[Tony Moanero]

 

 

[razor]

I used to collect all of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents...The Three Investigators series.

 

Anything with Alfred Hitchcock's name on it I used to buy.  I now recognise that I was an obsessive collector even when I was 12.

 

Jupiter Jones was my hero.  But I also liked Pete Crenshaw and the other one...

 

By the way, I can't believe the number of people who think they did English O Level when they were 13.  They were either precocious geniuses, or they've lost a good two years of their schooling memories...

[Tony Moanero]

I used to love the football novels written by Michael Hardcastle.

[RJ Fan club]

Anyone remember chose your own adventure books.

 

Think they have them away free with Weetabix

 

 

I defo had a copy of the Robin Hood one, and a few others

[Strontium]

I read a lot when I was a kid (pre-internet era) and most of my favourites have been mentioned already.

 

- Game books, especially Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf and Way of the Tiger

- Roald Dahl, still love them to this day, and his adult fiction is superb too

- Enid Blyton (Famous Five and Secret Seven of course, but the less well known Five Find-Outers were the best) - even though my English teacher criticised me in school when I was 11 for reading "Noddy books"

- Loads of books by Usborne. Always had loads of ace pictures. They did history books on vikings, castles etc and nature spotters books, and puzzle adventure books. All excellent. Oh shit, and books on ghosts and demons and things, they were brilliant.

[Strontium]

Anyone remember chose your own adventure books.

 

Think they have them away free with Weetabix

 

 

I defo had a copy of the Robin Hood one, and a few others

 

 

I had a few of them, but they couldn't hold a candle to stuff like Fighting Fantasy, they were more like branching stories than out and out fantasy games.

 

They churned them out by the boatload too, they were like the Mills & Boon of children's game books.

 

(I also had the Robin Hood one)

[Tony Moanero]

I read a lot when I was a kid (pre-internet era) and most of my favourites have been mentioned already.

 

- Game books, especially Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf and Way of the Tiger

- Roald Dahl, still love them to this day, and his adult fiction is superb too

- Enid Blyton (Famous Five and Secret Seven of course, but the less well known Five Find-Outers were the best) - even though my English teacher criticised me in school when I was 11 for reading "Noddy books"

- Loads of books by Usborne. Always had loads of ace pictures. They did history books on vikings, castles etc and nature spotters books, and puzzle adventure books. All excellent. Oh shit, and books on ghosts and demons and things, they were brilliant.

 

 

Repped for Usborne.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I can't wait to see Alan's reading material

 

Lolita

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The Story of O

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[KMD7]

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

Me too.

 

Loved these as a kid

 

[KMD7]

The Willard Price adventure series were great too

 

[VladimirIlyich]

I never read the Dr Seuss books when I was a kid but I read them to my kids when they were young and they liked them a lot. Kids should always be encouraged to read and substituting a paperback for a kindle/e-reader is just a logical step.