What's a book that stands out in your memory that you read over and over as a kid?
Mine would have to be The Adventures of Tintin: Explorers On The Moon. I must have read that a billion times. It never got old. Just the thought of exploring the Moon was so awesome back then.
I've got some others, but I'll just wait until you guys share some of your favs.
"What's a book that stands out in your memory that you read over and over as a kid?
Mine would have to be The Adventures of Tintin: Explorers On The Moon. I must have read that a billion times. It never got old. Just the thought of exploring the Moon was so awesome back then.
I've got some others, but I'll just wait until you guys share some of your favs. "
I know, but when I told my friends that I was the only one prepared for living in a dystopian aquatic civilization circa 1959, they looked at me like I was insane. Probably because I am, but that's beside the point.
" Atlas Shrugged. I know, people tell me all the time that I was a very stupid child, but that's what I read! "
Amazing book. I probably wouldn't have appreciated it as a child though. I'd have to go with the Dragon Lance books though. Dragons of Autumn Twilight-Spring in particular.
I read this book called Hatchet about 10 times when I was a kid. I'ts about a kid who gets in a plane crash in the wild and has to survive and whatever.
I really liked it when I was a kid, don't know if it's good now though. I haven't read it for about 12 years.
" I read this book called Hatchet about 10 times when I was a kid. I'ts about a kid who gets in a plane crash in the wild and has to survive and whatever. I really liked it when I was a kid, don't know if it's good now though. I haven't read it for about 12 years. "
Oh, dude! I had to read that for 6th grade and I remember it being the first actually good book that I ever read for school.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Redwall series by Brian Jacques, and the Cronicles of narnia by C.S. Lewis. I loved all those books and can still go back and read them.
The Redwall series were my favorite books back when I was a kid. A story about forest animals with an abbey held by mouse being the center place for the books. Each book, a different new forest creature (usually a mouse) would come along and save the abbey from whatever threatened it in the book with sometimes strange weapons. I recall one hero using a rope as his/her main weapon. When I think back, the stories sound pretty cheesy but I loved them back then.
" The Redwall series were my favorite books back when I was a kid. A story about forest animals with an abbey held by mouse being the center place for the books. Each book, a different new forest creature (usually a mouse) would come along and save the abbey from whatever threatened it in the book with sometimes strange weapons. I recall one hero using a rope as his/her main weapon. When I think back, the stories sound pretty cheesy but I loved them back then. "
YES. Martin the Warrior, Mattimeo, Mossflower, Lord Brocktree...such memories
Dr. Seus, Hardy Boys, and The Hobbit when I was really young.
As I hit my teenage years, it became Harry Potter, Tolkein's other works and.........The Hobbit!
There's times I just go to the Fellowship of the Ring simply to reread The Bridge of Khazad-Dum (or however you spell that). I get chills whenever I read it.
Other than silly picture books my first real encounter with reading books was Jules Verne. But I cant remember which of his books I read first but I think he is a agreat writer.
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