FabSwingers.com forum: What was the best book you read as a child?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Stig of the Dump

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Swallows and Amazon's

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

The Count of Monte Christo

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

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 *crumdiddlyumptiousMan
over a year ago

The only ones I can remember reading was

The Twits The BFG and Her Benny

There must of been more as I was in a school book club

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

James Herbert- rats.

Yes, I've always been loitering on the dark side.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Beano, does that count

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By *ingle Dad SeekingMan
over a year ago

Northern England

"Great Expectations" - it still is one of my favourites.

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By *crumdiddlyumptiousMan
over a year ago

James and the giant peach was another one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

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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By *ifty grades of shadyCouple
over a year ago

Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight

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 *crumdiddlyumptiousMan
over a year ago

Does Garfield count ? I bought all of them,

oh and I used to buy viz

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By *eplicant JoWoman
over a year ago

Sussex countryside

The Weirdstone of Brasingamen by Alan Garner

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

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)
over a year ago

Goodnight Mr Tom, I loved it and still read it every so often.

Also loved the worst witch series

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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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By *ust PeachyWoman
over a year ago

Prestonish

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

The BFG. Hands down.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Also, I was also a big fan of Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, especially Famous Five and Mallory Towers.

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

101 Dalmations way before the films.

Probably 1958 .. wow I just googled I have the first edition cover

better go find it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Treasure island - Robert Louis Stevenson

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By *xplicitMan
over a year ago

donegal

danny the champion of the world..

.if you have kids try the roddy doyle kids books...especially the rover series...they will make you all lol...

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By *Cocksucker84Man
over a year ago

salford

Loved Charlotte's Web. Still have a dog-eared copy somewhere. Loved Roald Dahl and The Secret Seven and Famous Five mystery novels.

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Heidi and the Railway Children were amongst my favourites. My Dad bought me a beautiful edition of Heidi. One of my treasured possessions

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The one that stuck in my mind the most was A Pilgrim's Progress.

I remember being engrossed it in as an 8/9 year old at school.

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By *eplicant JoWoman
over a year ago

Sussex countryside

A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken was another favourite. I still have my favourite books from when I was younger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

Lol xx

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By *ax1971Man
over a year ago

St helens

The cat Sat on the mat.....i loved that book...xx

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

I can't decide between The Hobbit or George's Marvellous Medicine.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

I stumbled upon my dad’s hidden Razzle collection when I was a kid. Whilst I can’t in all honesty say that it made for good reading, it was nonetheless certainly educational

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Railway Children

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By *at3232Woman
over a year ago

the moon

The little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh theres many! Harry Potter obviously

The Magic Faraway tree series is a good one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Little women ,love it

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

It's too hard...

Flat Stanley was the first book I bought with my own money and I still think it's good. If I have to pick just one it is A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin.

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By *esus H ChristMan
over a year ago

birmingham

All of the CS Lewis Narnia Books.... Loved them so much my dad got me the full series on BBC Cassette read by Michael Horden so I would be lulled to sleep with his dulcet tones......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I loved Enid Blyton books, Dr Seuss and any books to do with witches and animals. Black Beauty was a favourite.

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

To Kill a Mockingbird. I think I first read it when I was about 12. I remember the tension and fear of Boo Radley.

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By *ust ClareTV/TS
over a year ago

Settlewick!

Alice in Wonderland, warped my tiny little mind I've been in a weird fantasy world ever since

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

"Little women ,love it"

Ohh yes I have a very old Little Women too love that. I have a few of my books from the 50's.

ah memories

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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago

between havant and chichester

the childern of the new forest by Captain Marryatt

and the chalet school books

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By *upidscoupleCouple
over a year ago

Yorkshire

"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)
over a year ago

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 *hoenixAdAstraWoman
over a year ago

Hiding in the shadows

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?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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)
over a year ago

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)
over a year ago

skellig - I didn't read it I was the camera lens to the protagonist life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

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)
over a year ago

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 *oungalpha20Man
over a year ago

North West /Cumbria

Ain't really read many books but I have read a gypsy boy and gypsy boy on the run. Both based on real events

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I loved The Famous Five and The Secret Seven.

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By *itty9899Man
over a year ago

Craggy Island

Any off the Roland Dahl books from Charlie and the chocolate factory to the George Marvellous Medicine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

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 *iSTARessWoman
over a year ago

London

Alice in Wonderland

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

"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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I loved Enid Blyton read loads of her books. And all the Beatrix potter ones. I was a real bookworm and was a regular at the library x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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)
over a year ago

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 *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton

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.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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)
over a year ago

I had a book called ‘My Very First Poetry Book’ - it was epic!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also, ‘The Weather Cat’

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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)
over a year ago

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)
over a year ago

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

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

Slough Windsor ish

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)
over a year ago

"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)
over a year ago

"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)
over a year ago

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

My favourite book as a child was The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Iron Giant was/is one my favorite books.

Anything by Roald Dahl.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Watership Down

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Fantastic Mister Fox. Absolutely brilliant book and I even re-read it last year

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

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 *orthantsblueeyesMan
over a year ago

Northampton

I used to love the goosebumps books, especially the ones where you got to choose how it ended.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

Fluke - James Herbert. I’ve read that book plenty of times since too...

I used to love Dean Koontz and Stephen King novels.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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
over a year ago

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

Craggy Island

"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 *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

"Fluke - James Herbert. I’ve read that book plenty of times since too...

I used to love Dean Koontz and Stephen King novels. "

I wrote my first year book review on Fluke, love it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fuzzbuzz

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

Still an awesome book

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fuzzbuzz"

I used to love reading these in school

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

‘The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer’

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My favourite book in my infants class book corner was the Ladybird Cinderella book. I was enchanted by the illustrations of her three ball gowns.

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By *r MoriartyMan
over a year ago

The Land that time forgot (Norfolk)

Thunder and Lightnings

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Early teens I absolutely loved The diary of Anne Franks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fuzzbuzz

I used to love reading these in school "

They were ace problem is i was 16

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Huckleberry Finn was my fave and stir if the dump well written and full of adventures

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stig of the dump bloody auto spell

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By *ficouldMan
over a year ago

a quandary, could you change my mind?

Time machine

War of the worlds

The lion witch and the wardrobe

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"Fluke - James Herbert. I’ve read that book plenty of times since too...

I used to love Dean Koontz and Stephen King novels.

I wrote my first year book review on Fluke, love it"

Superb read

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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 *onnyeasygoingMan
over a year ago

Somewhere on the M62 between 24 and 14

The Hungry Caterpillar.

I just loved his relentless pursuit of eating anything I wanted and not giving a flying fuck what others thought.

And it had a great ending.

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By *r laidbackMan
over a year ago

London & New Brighton

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By *r_PinkMan
over a year ago

london stratford

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

Edmonton

"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

Anything Roald Dahl when I was younger. Danny champion of the world was my favourite.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never read a whole book until I was an adult and that was The Godfather!

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By *_and_LCouple
over a year ago

Tamworth

I loved When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and I Am David when I was a kid. L x

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By *ools47Woman
over a year ago

Failsworth

The lion the witch and the wardrobest. In fact the full Narnia Series.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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 *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Adrian Mole aged something and x3 quarters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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 *nsatiable Needy BratWoman
over a year ago

Here and There

The little matchgirl

Are you there God, it's me Margaret

And any point horrors when I was a little older.

Always loved reading. I lose myself.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kes.... had to read it for my O level.... have read it 3/4 times since....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

silence of the lambs

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

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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over a year ago

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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over a year ago

Men can't read but if I could shallows and amazon's, moby dick and animal farm

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over a year ago

"Men can't read but if I could shallows and amazon's, moby dick and animal farm

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swallows

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By *athnBobCouple
over a year ago

sandwell

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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By *atcherwankerMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

"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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By *100Man
over a year ago

Essex

playboy, Escort,Fiesta

My brother was a paper boy so he always brought home the best reading material my mum used to find them in my room though and go nuts lol

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By *atcherwankerMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

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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over a year ago

James and the giant peach

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Hobbit

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