I don't think we did this?

Anyway, I realize most of the stuff I read as a young fuck shouldn't ring familiar with y'all, but here's two that I think have earned some international praise, I still have them though pretty much worn them out completely:



The Krabat one is translated in the English as Satanic Mill and still real awesome and highly recommended.

The Robin Hood, I remember being so much fucked up when at the end he shoots his arrow through the window and demands to be buried were it lands. I think I couldn't sleep for at least a night after that. So much fucked up!

Wax nostalgic, punks.

The Great Brain series.
The Bully of Barkham Street
Jaws
Marvel comics
The Stand

I was absolutely nuts for the Great Brain series too. Also the Encyclopedia Brown books.

Before I got heavy into the sci fi and fantasy as a 12- or 13-year old, I read a lot of kids' books on animals and ecology. For a long time, I thought I wanted to grow up to be one of those guys like Attenborough on the wildlife documentaries.

I also had a book that had belonged to my dad when he was a kid that I read over and over. It was called Clarksville Battery and I only remember that it was about some local baseball players who become heroes by uncovering and taking down a group of gangsters. Apparently, adolescent baseball fiction was a wildly popular subgenre in the 1930s. Since my dad's father was a professional ball player, it makes sense that this book would appeal to my dad. I should ask him if it was a gift from his father.

The Little Prince

That book is just about perfect.

I devoured almost every book in the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series.

Yes. I was also really into these books as a little kid.

Dr. O' Nothing wrote:I devoured almost every book in the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series.

I was heavy into The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death and its sequel The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror

Also loads of comics

A Wrinkle in Time

The Phantom Tollbooth

Both total mindblowers/ intro- to philosophical and scientific thought for a fifth grader.

Harold and the Purple Crayon.

I still buy this for the kids in my life, and a choice few adults.

I ruddy well loved those Dragonfall 5 books.