Books you read as a kid

[shaunbhoy]

Read Great Expectations at 9 and remember being scared by the opening graveyard scene - a sign Of just what calibre of shandypants panicky wuss I was to become in later life.

FTFY

[MarillionFan]

Ditto.
Swallows and Amazons
Enid Blyton
Read Great Expectations at 9 and remember being scared by the opening graveyard scene - a sign Of Dickens genius.

Anyone remember a series of book featuring Jon and Penny Warrender and set in Shropshire during the war?

I heard Suity used to be scared of John, in the Janet and John books. He used to think he was staring at him funny.

[Arturo Bassick]

How old is "as a kid".
Read all the childrens classics early. Kidnapped, Gulliver, Crusoe, Treasure Island, Last of the Mohicans et al.
Moved on to Swallows and Amazons and the like. Enjoyed Shardik.
Was well into Sherlock Holmes at an early age.
Tolkein then on to Sci Fi.
Yes, a healthy amount of porn.

Read so many and the age I was when I did is a bit of a blur now. Still read a lot though.

[sasguru]

FTFY

You see SB, if you had read more as a kid your life might have amounted to much more than rear-echelon potato peeler in the army followed by a dead end poorly-paid job.

[Churchill]

A very quick find on Google:

The Story of Little Black Sambo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've seen his grave... Sambo's Grave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On the subject of books...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wei...of_Brisingamen

Anybody else know the legend of Alderley Edge?

[b0redom]

There was a science fiction author I read when I was a kid and I can never remember his name or find his books on google.

One series of books was about some sort of space soldier who becomes almost invincible after some mysterious people replace his skeleton with an extremely strong metal

The other series was about a bunch of kids travelling across a succession of alien planets

Douglas Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[ChrisPackit]

I enjoyed reading some Judy Blume books in my early to mid teens which were full of sexual references, when I was trying to figure out what my cock was for

[Churchill]

I enjoyed reading some Judy Blume books in my early to mid teens which were full of sexual references, when I was trying to figure out what my cock was for

When are you going to read the instruction manual for your arse?

[Spacecadet]

Douglas Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thats the guy!

[FiveTimes]

The Wishing chair,
Tale of the far away tree
Secret diary of Adrian Mole