Your favourite book as a child
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Which book absolutely stands out as your defining best book memory as a child?
I loved the magic far away tree series and read them avidly but once aged 12 on holiday i found a magical book I still can remember to this day reading in amazement. I've recently bought it again to re-read and it's still fab.
"The Earthsea Trilogy" by Ursula Lee Guin.
What's yours and have you revisited it as an adult?
I loved the magic far away tree series and read them avidly but once aged 12 on holiday i found a magical book I still can remember to this day reading in amazement. I've recently bought it again to re-read and it's still fab.
"The Earthsea Trilogy" by Ursula Lee Guin.
What's yours and have you revisited it as an adult?
my mum was an avid reader often had 3 or 4 books on the go at once, as a result as a child/youth i read just about all of stephen king's output, dick francis, agatha christie, le carre, etc. it was my mum who got me into reading and let me just about read anything i could manage from an early age. the earthsea trilogy just stood out by far and got me into all fantasy and sci fi books ive loved since. :-)
Asimov, Phillip k Dick, Greg bear, Larry niven, pournelle (Jerry?) Frank Herbert, that was literally my teen years summed up with a sprinkling of Steven king thrown in.
I read and re-read Dune about 5 times, the entire Foundation series two or three times etc. I was just fascinated by hard sci fi for years. The stand by Steven king did me for about ten years of re-reads for some reason also.
All my reading was inspired by my mum bless her from a very early age because she encouraged it and let me read anything I wanted , all her books included. I think access to reading like this from an early age forms your mind and helps you a lot in life. Gonna be a lot of modern kids who miss out on this.
My niece was also encouraged similarly by my mum, from being a child, and is an avid reader. she won a free bursary for the top private girls school in Sheffield and has just achieved 9x A stars at GCSE last yr. She's been used to enjoying learning and books are just a natural part of her life. :-)
I read and re-read Dune about 5 times, the entire Foundation series two or three times etc. I was just fascinated by hard sci fi for years. The stand by Steven king did me for about ten years of re-reads for some reason also.
All my reading was inspired by my mum bless her from a very early age because she encouraged it and let me read anything I wanted , all her books included. I think access to reading like this from an early age forms your mind and helps you a lot in life. Gonna be a lot of modern kids who miss out on this.
My niece was also encouraged similarly by my mum, from being a child, and is an avid reader. she won a free bursary for the top private girls school in Sheffield and has just achieved 9x A stars at GCSE last yr. She's been used to enjoying learning and books are just a natural part of her life. :-)
DRFC1879 said:
I didn't have D&D ones but there was another series (IIRC it was called "Beast Quest") which my mates and I loved around the age of ten or eleven which I'm guessing were similar e.g. "If you want to fight the dragon turn to page 88, if you want to sneak away turn to page 100".
yes it was that type of book, once you'd read through it and followed the "right" path so to speak the book was pretty much dead. we are of course talking the era of the BBC B computer and the spectrum 48k, so proper role playing games didnt really exist. i did have a spell as a teen playing dice games and painting lead characters up for them, but the book version is what started those off.Nom de ploom said:
steve jackson and Ian Livingstone...had a few we swapped them at school - they were great for thier time and arguably a pre cursor to RPG computer game concept....
As for other childhood books - The Hobbit obvs, took me until i was 18 to get through LOTR though! we had pretty substantial bookshelves thankfully as a child and I worked on a market bookstore as a teenager so much choice from Wilbur smith to alaistair maclean to louis l'amour.
big raps to kids that read Asimov et al. I can't read it now nevermind 30 years ago! Consider Phlebas...erm, no thanks.
thats the ones! steve Jackson /Ian livingstone. happy days!As for other childhood books - The Hobbit obvs, took me until i was 18 to get through LOTR though! we had pretty substantial bookshelves thankfully as a child and I worked on a market bookstore as a teenager so much choice from Wilbur smith to alaistair maclean to louis l'amour.
big raps to kids that read Asimov et al. I can't read it now nevermind 30 years ago! Consider Phlebas...erm, no thanks.
Shanter said:
My favorite book in my childhood is To Kill a Mockingbird
I can remember reading that for o level English literature along with ode on a Grecian urn and of course Romeo and Juliet!Saw in the news this week that Stig of the dumps author had died, that was another favourite too.
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