Oh yeah, I loved those! Fighting Fantasy were the ones I played as a kid. I even got myself a few hardback books of the recently republished Lone Wolf series. I just couldn't resist of a Choose Your Own series that had an ongoing storyline where your character improved with each book!
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Haha, exactly what I was going to mention. I really liked those more than most books until I discovered King in the 3rd grade. After that I only liked novels. They were so much deeper. "It" was my fave book as a child.Originally Posted by Odetta
they are great books! I love that my kid loves them... I can read along with her!
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I was into horror at a very early age but way outside that genre (in between reading Rosemary's Baby, The Excorcist and SK) I LOVED the James Harriot series of books- All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful etc
In a multi-page thread targeting devoted readers, it's little surprise that all my favorities have already been mentioned I think. But I'll post my list anyways. Great fun reading others' favorites!
1) The Enormous Egg --New England farm boy has a chicken that lays this big ole' egg, which hatches out to be a triceratops. What boy wouldn't want to have a pet triceratops? I loved this book!
2) Runaway Ralph--my introduction to all things Beverly Cleary
3) All things Beverly Cleary
4) Where the Red Fern Grows--powerful book, and I don't even like dogs.
5) The Chronicles of Narnia (series)
6) The Three Investigators (series)**
7) The White Mountains and tripod trilogy
8) My Side of the Mountain
9) Ozma of Oz
10) Choose Your Own Adventure (series)
**Does anyone else remember these? I was never a big Hardy Boys fan, but I loved The Three Investigators. This was an Alfred Hitchcock-presented series of mystery adventures. The three boys were Jupiter Jones (portly and very smart); Pete Crenshaw (athletic and loyal), and Bob somebody-or-another (records and research). Much cooler than the Hardy Boys!
Absolutely!
Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Sherlock Holmes, 20000 Leagues... and a couple books in Croatian that no one on here has heard of.
Maniac Magee
A Dog Called Kitty
Follow My Leader
the Ramona books
Where The Red Fern Grows
The Dark Is Rising series
The Silver Crown
ETA: Yeah, the James Harriet books! I loved those too, and had totally forgotten about them.
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The ??? YES, I still have a lot of The Three Investigators audio cassetts ,Absolutely!
don´t use them but still have them.
In the last years and of cause this year also at Christmas time, one of my local private radio stations aired
every evening one complete ??? episode without interruptions !!!
My Stephen King collection
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...on-Stockerlone
Non-King collection
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...rlone-Non-King
Favorite childhood books? Wow, there were so many I can't remember them all, but among them would be:
The OZ series, particularly those illustrated by John R. Neill
Ray Bradbury
Beverly Cleary books
Stephen King (I read Salem's Lot when I was about eight years old: hmm, that might explain a few things)
Comic books -- series like "The Witching Hour," etc.
Nancy Drew mystery series
When I was very little, the Richard Scarry books were among my faves: anybody remember Huckle the Cat, or Lowly the Worm?
Andersen's Fairy Tales...
...more, but these come to mind right now.
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