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By *isaB45 OP Woman
over a year ago
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...what was your favourite childhood book? And do you still read it?
Mine was The Hobbit. And yes, I still read the same copy. Its' pages are brown and musty. The spine is well-worn. I love it! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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The very first book I bought from the Puffin Book Club, with my own saved pennies was Flat Stanley.
Pride and Prejudice was and is my favourite book as a child and I still read the same copy.
The Wizard of Earthsea led me into fantasy and kept me busy for 40 years.
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I've only ever read 1 book in my life but it was so good I read it cover to cover in 5 days. It was somebody's life story that mirrored my own so much it was uncanny. Shame I can't remember what the fuck it was called  |
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"...what was your favourite childhood book? And do you still read it?
Mine was The Hobbit. And yes, I still read the same copy. Its' pages are brown and musty. The spine is well-worn. I love it!"
I also loved The Hobbit - still do! I feel aggrieved that neither of my children have ever shown any interest in reading it despite my recommendation.
But I was also pretty obsessed with The Little House on the Prairie series of books. I've got a box set, though not my originals, that I've read again a few times as an adult. |
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By *isaB45 OP Woman
over a year ago
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"The very first book I bought from the Puffin Book Club, with my own saved pennies was Flat Stanley.
Pride and Prejudice was and is my favourite book as a child and I still read the same copy.
The Wizard of Earthsea led me into fantasy and kept me busy for 40 years.
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I love Pride and Prejudice. I've had the same copy for years x |
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"First book I really got into was "The Silver Sword" by Ian Serraileur.
Classic wartime story, still vivid in my mind despite reading it for first time on 1965, just those few years ago.  "
Reading this 
A few years ago I ordered a copy for my young son |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Loved The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn,first read them both when I was eight and still read both occasionally all these years later.Same copies too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I was a major Enid blyton fan, so loads of books by her.
The wishing chair
The far away tree
The famous five
The secret seven
Just got my kids into the famous five and they love it too.  |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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"First book I really got into was "The Silver Sword" by Ian Serraileur.
Classic wartime story, still vivid in my mind despite reading it for first time on 1965, just those few years ago.
Reading this
A few years ago I ordered a copy for my young son "
Wow! Well done, everytime I mention the book, blank looks!
Mind you, the traditional's such as The Famous Five can be discounted! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I loved The Famous Five...I rather envied George."
Another one here for The Famous Five. I don't really remember reading much else. In fact, the only real memories I have of reading children's books is to my own kids and one of my favourites was My Naughty Little Sister. |
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"I was a major Enid blyton fan, so loads of books by her.
The wishing chair
The far away tree
The famous five
The secret seven
Just got my kids into the famous five and they love it too. "
My first was Five go to Smuggler's Top, Enid Blyton. I read it again recently, superb.
As a teen I read I Robot, Issac Asimov, also a super read.
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By *isaB45 OP Woman
over a year ago
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"I was a major Enid blyton fan, so loads of books by her.
The wishing chair
The far away tree
The famous five
The secret seven
Just got my kids into the famous five and they love it too.
My first was Five go to Smuggler's Top, Enid Blyton. I read it again recently, superb.
As a teen I read I Robot, Issac Asimov, also a super read.
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Did you ever read The Rest of the Robots?
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Famous five, secret seven, Lone Pine series, hardy boys & Nancy Drew... Then on holiday I picked up a dick Francis, Ian Fleming and an adult Roald Dahl.... I was about 10.. Then the Simarillion before Lord of the rings and the hobbit.
I still have all of my childhood books on a large bookcase made by my grandfather |
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George's Marvellous Medicine, still my favourite Dahl. I love how the protagonist is a young boy whose whole plan is to murder his grandma and gets rich off of it!
Then when I was 9 or 10 I found a copy of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 & 3/4 in the school library and fell in love. I own every book in the series to this day and read them all multiple times |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Green Eggs and Ham as a young kid and then Danny the Champion of the World
Flat Stanly was excellent too and not now Bernard!
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Just read Green eggs and ham along with Fox in sox this evening....my jaw hurt afterwards   |
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"I was a major Enid blyton fan, so loads of books by her.
The wishing chair
The far away tree
The famous five
The secret seven
Just got my kids into the famous five and they love it too.
My first was Five go to Smuggler's Top, Enid Blyton. I read it again recently, superb.
As a teen I read I Robot, Issac Asimov, also a super read.
Did you ever read The Rest of the Robots?
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Yes, I read a lot of Asimov as a teen, but cannot recall the book names. |
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Failing that Enid Blyton was a firm favourite 
Then when I was a teen Pride and Prejudice & Jane Eyre 