Books you read as a kid

[doodab]

The manual that came with the original ZX spectrum was a cracker. I had another book about how to build a computer based on a 6502 as well.

[PRC1964]

I never managed to get into Sci Fi/Tolkein stuff. But I did read almost constantly. The usual stuff, Swallows & Amazons, Just William, Biggles. Oh and Asterix & Tintin were always popular. Early teens was James Thurber, Graham Green, George Orwell.

My eldest (12) has just read my old Gerald Durrell "Corfu" books and he finds them as good as I did decades ago.

[Spacecadet]

My eldest (12) has just read my old Gerald Durrell "Corfu" books and he finds them as good as I did decades ago.

I'm sure I read those but with the exception of a single static mental image I cannot remember them at all

[Arturo Bassick]

I read "the story of o" when I was 13. Which might explain a lot.

[doodab]

My eldest (12) has just read my old Gerald Durrell "Corfu" books and he finds them as good as I did decades ago.

My Family and Other Animals?

I read a lot of sci fi as well, and various stuff like Robin Hood, Arthurian & Norse Legends and I had a couple of Anthologies called "Adventure Stories for Boys" or something that had some great stuff in, Edgar Allen Poe and Jack London and all sorts, plus some odd readers digest tomes and non fiction stuff like the book of "the ascent of man" TV series and "life on earth".

I used to love going to the library as well.

[Lockhouse]

I read loads when I was a kid. There was a girl down my road who I really fancied who went to the library every Saturday morning. I used to wait until she left her house then "accidentally" bumped into her. Stalking I think they call it nowadays but I was only 10.

I started reading with CS Lewis then Billy Bunter, Jennings and Just William and had migrated to Sherlock Holmes, Tolkein and Isaac Asimov by the time I was 11 and off to secondary school. I remember reading 1984 and Animal Farm about then and both books having a massive impact on me.

p.s. I also used to read those "Pan collections of horror stories", anyone else remember them?

[Churchill]

"ICL 1900 Series George Implementation Manual"

[Sysman]

When very young I read some "Famous Five" ones, then a few "Hardy Boys" Books, then progressed to the Flashman diaries.
Long time ago mind................

My mother didn't like Enid Blyton because the reading age didn't progress, despite the fact that there were what I remember as cracking good stories.

Fortunately I found another author, whose name is long forgotten, who did some good adventure books for boys.

Any Ladybird book to do with science or nature.

Quite a few books on shooting tigers in India, mountain and Pole explorers, PoW escapees. John Buchan, Willard Price, Agatha Christie and Arther Conan Doyle.

I was quite a bookworm really, though not in the swotty sense.

I was also mad on anything to do with cars. AA Drive magazine was a good source of info.

[Spacecadet]

Fortunately I found another author, whose name is long forgotten, who did some good adventure books for boys.

The Hardy Boys?

[PRC1964]

I'm sure I read those but with the exception of a single static mental image I cannot remember them at all

I think at least part of the charm was that they are written from the perspective of a child. Oh, and that they portray a hot, bright place with beaches and no schools.

My Family and Other Animals?

Yes, but also Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods.