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Your Favorite Books From Childhood!

Showbread

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On the Banks of Plum Creek:


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I read ALL the Nancy Drew books, this was just my favorite.

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My absolute favorite series of all time, I read 1-6 when I was 8 and had to wait for Deathly Hallows to come out 4 years later.
 

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Philip Ridley and Paul Jennings. You know, things that are a little odd, with a heavy dose of fantasy, but still based in our world (the magical realism genre). About 2 years ago, I found In the Eyes of Mr Fury -- the one book Ridley wrote for adults. Boy was it a wonderful read.
 

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When I Was Little:
*Dr.Seuss
* Box-Car Children
* A serious of unfortunate events
* Redwall
*Bone
*Calvin and Hobbes

When I Was A Teenager: 13-18
*Every Hunter S. Thompson book
*Lord of the Rings series
*Alice In Wonderland
* 1964
*Animal Farm
* Through the Looking-Glass
*The Divine Comedy
*Fight Club
*American Psycho
*The diary of a part time Indian
 

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator &
Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
The Great Brain series by John D. Fitzgerald
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
The Hobbit
 

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Oh strawberries same. I had this very old, musty hardback children's book...2 children's classics back-to-back. Alice in Wonderland (with those same illustrations)...and this story...

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I slept with that book in my bed for like five years.
 

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I can’t remember what books I read under the age of seven, though given that I was in reading recovery, I would wage that it was not a lot. I blame it on the fact that the books where so extraordinarily mundane. The first book that I actually wanted to read was The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, followed by the rest of the series. After which it was Raymond E Feist’s Magician, and following series. I haven’t really put down the Fantasy and Science Fiction since.
 

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Some I haven't seen mentioned yet:
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (apparently a couple of people did, just missed first look through)
Wayside School Series by Louis Sachar
ValueTale series by Spenser Johnson, MD
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Non-fiction Favorites:
The Human Body by Ruth & Bertel Bruun
The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Balestrino
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Kanra Jest

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and these on occasion (from the points of view of a single character)
 

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As a kid:
Treasure Island Robert Luis Stevenson
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling
Jurrassic Park - Michael Crichton
African Myths and Legends retold by Kathleen Arnott
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Mark Twain
Dune - Frank Herbert
Congo - Michael Crichton

Teenager:
More of the Dune series...sigh they just wont end...
The Lost World - Michael Crichton
The Penderghast Series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childe beggining with Relic.
The Elvis Cole PI Series by Robert Crais
The Lord of the Rings saga JRR Tolkien
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
The Modern Prometheus - Marry Shelly (Frankenstein)

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Those are the highlights.
 

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Dr. Seuss books.
Also that book about a boy and his tree, where he fucking cuts it down to a stump, omg, what the hell even, lmao.
 
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