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Books From Your Youth
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:56 am
by Biblio Phile
I'm guilty of regularly (once every couple of years) reading books I enjoyed as a youth. I'm curious if anyone else does this to revisit those books that made them happy as a kid.
Some of my favorites:
The Black Stallion
The Four-Story Mistake
The Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club
The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club
The Boxcar Children
Re: Books From Your Youth
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:47 am
by Cattleman
While I haven't re-read many of them, your post did jog my memory. Here are some of my favorite childhood/youth novels:
"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Call of the Wild" by Jack London
"The Hardy Boys" mystery series
"Between Planets" by Robert Heinlein
There are many more, but age has dimmed my memory, as well as my eyes.
Re: Books From Your Youth
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 9:00 pm
by Kevin
Charlotte's Web to this day brings to me epiphanies. To this freaking day! Oh what else... Dr Seuss and Lewis Carroll books still interest me.
Re: Books From Your Youth
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 10:31 pm
by jdkellogg
All Quiet on the Western Front made a big impact on me when I was in middle school. Since that time, I've read it several times. I really helps me remember how good I've got it.
Re: Books From Your Youth
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 11:29 am
by Carlotta Melzi
All the Astrid Lindgren's Emil series
All the Emilio Salgari's pirates stories
Jack London's The Call of the Wild
Isaac Asimov's Foundation
Hemingway's The First Forty Nine Stories (Now I prefer other Hemingway's books, but at 12 years old I fell in love with Nick Adams)
Re: Books From Your Youth
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 8:05 am
by RCFettig
I'm reading 'A Wrinkle in Time' with my 10 year old. But I just rediscovered 'The Ghost Next Door' yesterday and might have to revisit it sometime.
Re: Books From Your Youth
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 8:18 am
by DJWilde
Oh man. Lots of titles already listed brought back memories but there are others:
The Hobbit
Watership Down
The Wolf Bell
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
The Black Cauldron series
Re: Books From Your Youth
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:35 am
by uod_sa_libro
Oh, I love re-reading books I read when I was younger.
Jerry Spinelli books
Goosebumps
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Wrinkle in Time
Harry Potter books
Hearts in Atlantis
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables
...were the truly unforgettable ones
Re: Books From Your Youth
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:15 pm
by GaryG48
I have re-read in my old age and NOT liked these books that I loved as a teenager:
Leon Uris' fiction
Worldly Philosophers
Stranger in a Strange Land
Foundation
Ringworld
But, in the spirit of this thread, I still love the Horatio Hornblower books I first read in elementry school.
Re: Books From Your Youth
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:42 pm
by Gillianfx
Green days by the river
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Little House on the Prairie
In the Castle of My Skin
Animal Farm