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Books you loved when you were a kid
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:40 pm
by coach_Archive
My two favorites were:
and
Both made very strong impressions on me as a kid, and both were the first intimations to me that life was very dark and tenuous.
Books you loved when you were a kid
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:06 pm
by Brett Eugene Ralph_Archive
Books you loved when you were a kid
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:36 pm
by r0ck1r0ck2_Archive
Books you loved when you were a kid
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:55 pm
by Ace_Archive
I Read 'The Westing Game' about 5 times.
Books you loved when you were a kid
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:35 pm
by STF_Archive
Marsupialized wrote:I found a Hustler letters in the bushes at the park when I was like 8. I read that thing cover to cover about a thousand times. definitely my favorite.
Someone gave my Dad a subscription to Penthouse for a Christmas gift. I don't know what he did with them (it wasn't really his thing), but he held on to Vanessa Williams issue and I discovered where he was hiding it. I read the whole thing cover to cover so I wouldn't miss anything dirty.
Books you loved when you were a kid
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:38 pm
by STF_Archive
When I was really little my Mom says I liked this book:
When I was a little older I liked Robert Newton Peck's "Soup" books, about two best friends growing up in small town Vermont in the 1930's. I read everything by Beverly Cleary - the Henry books multiple times.
When I was a little older than that I read Stephen King's early classics:
Christine, Cujo, Firestarter, Carrie, etc.
Books you loved when you were a kid
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:59 pm
by Steve V_Archive
Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:
Christ, yes.
Books you loved when you were a kid
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 10:01 pm
by burun_Archive
simmo wrote:Jodie, that story is amazing. I am completely overcome with jealousy, by the way. It was the first book I thought of when I saw this thread.
Suffer, Simmo!
Signed in 1980! 28 years ago!
Books you loved when you were a kid
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 10:02 pm
by Colonel Panic_Archive
Books you loved when you were a kid
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:01 pm
by SweetDaddyPatty_Archive
does anyone remember this one?
the story of a curious dragon-like "aminal" that eats children's dolls. A kindly old man named Bobo cannot stand by and allow the Funny Thing to steal dolls from children. He entices it to eat "jum-jills," a concoction he makes up from seven nut cakes, five seed puddings, two cabbage salads, and fifteen little cheeses, all rolled into little balls. A happy ending is assured when the Funny Thing discovers he loves jum-jills and is convinced that they will make his tail grow longer and his blue points grow more beautiful. He returns each day for the treats and never eats another doll
