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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I'm currently reading a bloody marvellous book called The Runaways by Ruth Thomas, that I must've first read it when I was nine or ten, and I read it so much that my copy completely fell apart... thank God for the Kindle app!
I loved Noughts & Crosses by Mallory Blackman too. |
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As a child I devoured books. I read and read and read. Roald Dahl was always my go to. Enid Blyton, CS Lewis and Lewis Carroll allowed me into wonderful worlds that I still cherish. My absolute favourites that were completely dog eared, loved and still sit on my shelf were BFG and The Wind in the Willows.
I think I might have to start a re read before bed. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I got a great book for Christmas one year.
The dangerous book for boys.
Had so much information in it, everything from writing secret codes, shooting, skinning and cooking a rabbit. Playing conkers, navigation.
Still got it somewhere. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Danny the champion of the world.
I still read it to the kids every now and then, although they read rather well themselves now.
They love the diary of a wimpy kid books. |
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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley is a children's fantasy novel written by the English author Alan Garner
Did this in school loved it, as did I like Kestrel for a knave, by Barrie Hinds, adapted to film as Kes |
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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago
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With being dyslexic I hated reading with a passion, I made myself read books but couldn't remember what was going on in them.
It took me a year to read the Hobit.
The Whine the poo books were a much easier read. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Oh! We read The Weirdstone of Brasingamen by Alan Garner as a class when I was in Year 7 and loved it! Completely forgot about it until now, thanks guys  |
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I didn’t have the opportunity to read anything other than my school reading book as a child. As a family we owned encyclopaedias but no other books!
I only got the opportunity to read for pleasure when I was about 13 and we moved to within walking distance of the library!
I had a lot of catching up to do - so started with Blyton’s Malory Towers books and went on from there!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Lion the witch and and wardrobe
I loved that book and swear I could smell the inside of that wardrobe and feel the cold on my face as I stepped imto Narnia
Old I am
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"I'm currently reading a bloody marvellous book called The Runaways by Ruth Thomas, that I must've first read it when I was nine or ten, and I read it so much that my copy completely fell apart... thank God for the Kindle app!
I loved Noughts & Crosses by Mallory Blackman too. "
I loved the runaways by Ruth Thomas & nobody else I know has ever heard of it. Did you watch the TV program too in school? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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So many lovely books that I adored; The Magic Faraway Tree, When We Were Very Young, The Worst Witch, Teddy Robinson, Little Women, The Hobbit, Snowcloud Stallion, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Jane Eyre, Mallory Towers and so on. But if I had to pick one that really stopped me in my tracks, it would be The Silver Sword.
Great thread OP, think I may have to re-read the latter. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So many lovely books that I adored; The Magic Faraway Tree, When We Were Very Young, The Worst Witch, Teddy Robinson, Little Women, The Hobbit, Snowcloud Stallion, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Jane Eyre, Mallory Towers and so on. But if I had to pick one that really stopped me in my tracks, it would be The Silver Sword.
Great thread OP, think I may have to re-read the latter. "
I recall reading the silver sword. Was it about children escaping Nazi occupation in France? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So many lovely books that I adored; The Magic Faraway Tree, When We Were Very Young, The Worst Witch, Teddy Robinson, Little Women, The Hobbit, Snowcloud Stallion, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Jane Eyre, Mallory Towers and so on. But if I had to pick one that really stopped me in my tracks, it would be The Silver Sword.
Great thread OP, think I may have to re-read the latter. "
I loved the magic faraway tree...when I was a young teenager it was books like ‘flowers in the attic’ that was quite disturbing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My favourite childhood book was The Black Stallion, by Walter Farley.
I may have loved it so much I never returned it to the school library.
Any idea what a 40yr old fine would be?"
Probably 100 times what the book cost new. |
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I read so many books when I was young, I live about 2 mins from where our local library used to be until they closed it, I used to go every Friday and take three books at a time, I do remember getting lots of Dr Who books and Enid Blyton etc, also Bram Stokers Dracula and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, so a very eclectic read for me  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So many lovely books that I adored; The Magic Faraway Tree, When We Were Very Young, The Worst Witch, Teddy Robinson, Little Women, The Hobbit, Snowcloud Stallion, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Jane Eyre, Mallory Towers and so on. But if I had to pick one that really stopped me in my tracks, it would be The Silver Sword.
Great thread OP, think I may have to re-read the latter.
I loved the magic faraway tree...when I was a young teenager it was books like ‘flowers in the attic’ that was quite disturbing. "
That was made into a very disappointing film. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Think that young men in general don’t read novels that much.
Loved Look and Learn weekly publication and anything factual.
Thomas Hardy is a fave though.
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"So many lovely books that I adored; The Magic Faraway Tree, When We Were Very Young, The Worst Witch, Teddy Robinson, Little Women, The Hobbit, Snowcloud Stallion, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Jane Eyre, Mallory Towers and so on. But if I had to pick one that really stopped me in my tracks, it would be The Silver Sword.
Great thread OP, think I may have to re-read the latter. "
Are you there God, it's me Margaret. I've been trying to remember it's title for a good 20 mins |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So many lovely books that I adored; The Magic Faraway Tree, When We Were Very Young, The Worst Witch, Teddy Robinson, Little Women, The Hobbit, Snowcloud Stallion, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Jane Eyre, Mallory Towers and so on. But if I had to pick one that really stopped me in my tracks, it would be The Silver Sword.
Great thread OP, think I may have to re-read the latter.
I recall reading the silver sword. Was it about children escaping Nazi occupation in France?"
That’s the one. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I used to get 8 books a fortnight from the library. I was about 7 when I first started walking up there with my sisters and friends. We used to take our mum's pram with us to get all the books home. That must have been a funny sight to see. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So many lovely books that I adored; The Magic Faraway Tree, When We Were Very Young, The Worst Witch, Teddy Robinson, Little Women, The Hobbit, Snowcloud Stallion, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Jane Eyre, Mallory Towers and so on. But if I had to pick one that really stopped me in my tracks, it would be The Silver Sword.
Great thread OP, think I may have to re-read the latter.
I recall reading the silver sword. Was it about children escaping Nazi occupation in France?
That’s the one. "
I think I read that in the first year of senior school. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So many lovely books that I adored; The Magic Faraway Tree, When We Were Very Young, The Worst Witch, Teddy Robinson, Little Women, The Hobbit, Snowcloud Stallion, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Jane Eyre, Mallory Towers and so on. But if I had to pick one that really stopped me in my tracks, it would be The Silver Sword.
Great thread OP, think I may have to re-read the latter.
Are you there God, it's me Margaret. I've been trying to remember it's title for a good 20 mins "
I’m not even religious and I read that. I was trying to remember that book. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So many lovely books that I adored; The Magic Faraway Tree, When We Were Very Young, The Worst Witch, Teddy Robinson, Little Women, The Hobbit, Snowcloud Stallion, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Jane Eyre, Mallory Towers and so on. But if I had to pick one that really stopped me in my tracks, it would be The Silver Sword.
Great thread OP, think I may have to re-read the latter.
I loved the magic faraway tree...when I was a young teenager it was books like ‘flowers in the attic’ that was quite disturbing.
That was made into a very disappointing film."
Twice!! It could have been so much better. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The lion, the witch and the wardrobe, Charlie and the chocolate factory, little red riding hood and The witches. just to name a few, I loved reading- still do now just don’t get time as there’s not enough hours in the day! |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The Hobbit. The former started my love of Wilde - I adored it and the prose and just everything about it. The Hobbit was magical and allowed me a form of much needed escapism and I became fixated on learning Elvish. Both books will always hold a special place for me. |
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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago
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"So many lovely books that I adored; The Magic Faraway Tree, When We Were Very Young, The Worst Witch, Teddy Robinson, Little Women, The Hobbit, Snowcloud Stallion, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Jane Eyre, Mallory Towers and so on. But if I had to pick one that really stopped me in my tracks, it would be The Silver Sword.
Great thread OP, think I may have to re-read the latter. "
Oh wow... Are you there God, It's me Margaret is an awesome book!
I also remember a book called The Pigman, about two children and an old man. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The Hobbit. The former started my love of Wilde - I adored it and the prose and just everything about it. The Hobbit was magical and allowed me a form of much needed escapism and I became fixated on learning Elvish. Both books will always hold a special place for me."
The Lord of the rings seemed a lot darker and mysterious in my head. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"In secondary school the class read a book called Kes it’s about a boy living and a hawk he trains which was also made into a film."
Ken Loach was the author ,went to our Grammar School with me mates dad.
Filmed at the school Darren Gough went to in Barnsley. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The Hobbit. The former started my love of Wilde - I adored it and the prose and just everything about it. The Hobbit was magical and allowed me a form of much needed escapism and I became fixated on learning Elvish. Both books will always hold a special place for me.
The Lord of the rings seemed a lot darker and mysterious in my head."
Me too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The Railway Children"
also Black Beauty, The call of the Wild by Jack London, The wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, and I also read a lot of horror stories from the age of about 15..rosemaries baby, harvest home and lots of James Herbert  |
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The Machine Gunners, about some kids in Britain in World War 2 who find a crashed German bomber during the blitz. They steal the machine gun from the wreck and set it up in their den to shoot at other german planes coming in. I remember it being a great story |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The Hobbit. The former started my love of Wilde - I adored it and the prose and just everything about it. The Hobbit was magical and allowed me a form of much needed escapism and I became fixated on learning Elvish. Both books will always hold a special place for me."
I was just about to say The Happy Prince. Also, The Nightingale & The Rose was  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Dream of Fair Horses by Patricia Leitch.
Beautiful amount of detail about family life and dreams of all young pony girls coming true but with a bittersweet ending.
Took me years to remember the title as I must have read it when I was about 11 /12. Bought it off ebay a few yrs back and is still just as lovely. |
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By *eliWoman
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"The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The Hobbit. The former started my love of Wilde - I adored it and the prose and just everything about it. The Hobbit was magical and allowed me a form of much needed escapism and I became fixated on learning Elvish. Both books will always hold a special place for me.
I was just about to say The Happy Prince. Also, The Nightingale & The Rose was "
Oh, it was heartbreaking! Yeah, I still shed a tear if I read it.
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By *itty9899Man
over a year ago
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"Any off the Roland Dahl books from Charlie and the chocolate factory to the George Marvellous Medicine
I wanted to collect stuff from around the house and make my own medicine "
Me too, I would have started in the bath room |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The first Adrian Mole book, I was 9 and bits of it went over my head, but the life of this kid growing up in the 80s just grabbed me.
I’ve read all the books and love each and every one |
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By *r_PinkMan
over a year ago
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"I'm currently reading a bloody marvellous book called The Runaways by Ruth Thomas, that I must've first read it when I was nine or ten, and I read it so much that my copy completely fell apart... thank God for the Kindle app!
I loved Noughts & Crosses by Mallory Blackman too. "
The secret diary of Adrian Mole.
I loved I and it actually started me reading.
I wrote to Sue Townsend (the writer) and even got a reply from her, with a signed photo. All of which I still have to this day |
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
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"In secondary school the class read a book called Kes it’s about a boy living and a hawk he trains which was also made into a film.
Ken Loach was the author ,went to our Grammar School with me mates dad.
Filmed at the school Darren Gough went to in Barnsley."
. I think i once read most of the cast were not actors / actress but locals people |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Devils piper by Susan Price
Always wanted to read it again as an adult but at the same time I don't want to ruin the memory I have reading it as a child.
Bit like watching an old movie it's never as good as you remember. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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You all need to read Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts. A beautiful tale of adventure, compassion, danger and love; all brilliantly written with a fantastic prose. 10/10 |
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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago
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Rumble Fish by S.E. hinton really resonated with me as a child (yes I was not the most likely not to be voted class president back then) and anything by Roald dahl I used to devour |
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By (user no longer on site)
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We read Of Mice and Men in English Lit Lessons, greatly enjoyed that.
I was given a copy of The White Company by Conan-Doyle one Christmas. Never read it, keep meaning to download |
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By *athnBobCouple
over a year ago
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Best book I read as a child
I have no idea of the name of the 1st and most influential book I read as a child.
On holiday (camping in wales) with my parents for 2 weeks aged 12. Bored to tears. My dad told me to stop moaning and told me to sit down and read the library book he had just finished. Out of desperation I started to read and was hooked on reading within minutes.
It didn't matter that it was a totally forgettable sci-fi novel, it got me started and for that reason it was the best book ever. |
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"James Herbert- rats.
Yes, I've always been loitering on the dark side. "
I read Rats when I was a kid as well! About 11 or 12 I think. At a "Eurocamp" holiday site thing in France. I was gradually getting bored out of my mind and had no desire to go and do youth club type bollocks with a load of kids I didn't know so I went rummaging in their "library" box where I came upon Herbert's magnum opus. I absolutely devoured his books after that, I've still got a load of them somewhere. |
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As like a KID kid though, it was almost certainly a Roald Dahl book. I loooooooooooved George's Marvellous Medicine, but for some reason no one ever got me the book. (Fear that I'd poison my Nan, perhaps?) But I had Charlie and the Chocolate factory along with the cassette tape (Amazon did not invent audiobooks, kids!) and I always really enjoyed reading along to the tape |
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better go find it. 
Are you there God, it's me Margaret
And any point horrors when I was a little older.
Always loved reading. I lose myself. 
