good books

[scarletts_awry]

I haven't seen Prince Caspian, though I probably will at some point. The talk about it has gotten me thinking though. Well, the talk about it and being back at home where a few of my old books still reside has got me thinking

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[bluflamingo]

That's weird - I'm like you with the Narnia books, I know I read them (I had the whole series in three hardback volumes) but I have very little recollection of the stories. My sister and I used to watch the tv mini-series on Saturday afternoons as well; I have a vivid memory of sitting in the kitchen watching it on the little tv in there while my mum was doing the ironing

[webbgirl]

I'm assuming the people on my flist are Readers like me. I'm curious: What did you read as a kid, or in your early teens, that left its mark on you more strongly than anything else?

The funny thing is, that's the Narnia books for me.

I remember them all vividly from when I was a kid. I go back and forth on which one is my favorite all the time. (Sadly I still haven't seen the movie because of timing issues.)

The other reading that I completely fell in love with were the ElfQuest comic books. My brother got me reading them and I'm still beyond enamoured with them.

[bedlamsbard]

*cough* The Tarzan books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. And the rest of Burroughs' books -- just short Tarzan are the Pellucidar books -- but, well, Tarzan. That is probably the reason it's always been adventure stories with me. Tarzan and the Odyssey. I was a weird kid

[mentalhygiene]

My dad read to all three of us at bedtime when we were young. So I have sensory recollections of "The Wizard of Oz" (the illustrations, the smell of the pages), and "Little Orphan Annie" (comics) from when I was very young. The other strongest thing about those is my dad reading them to me, so I remember his voice with the books. I remember the TV miniseries of Narnia because I didn't read the books until I was older. One of my favorite books from when I was around 9 or so was "The Giver" by Lois Lowry and around the same time (8 or 9) "The Phantom of the Opera". When I was very very small, my favorite favorite book (that I could read myself) was a book of pictures of signs (street signs, municipal signage) that I absolutely *adored*. I had a lot of books on tape, so that's how I remember a lot of the stories that I encountered when I was young -- Gulliver's Travels, Gumby, Rip Van Winkle. (my dad also made us tapes -- for when he went away on business -- of our favorite books being read by him

[zekkass]

...I remember the Narnia books. Good lord, I read a lot when I was younger. When I was younger I highly enjoyed the Black Gryphon and the early Dragonlance books.

I remember comic books more vividly. Calvin and Hobbes, as well as Garfield and Andy Capp - those are my childhood books. (I didn't understand Andy Capp all that well, but I remember sitting next to my dad's bookcase, going through his Peanuts and Andy Capp books and having fun.)

I, Robot was good. It's probably the one thing of Issac Asimovs I remember reading.

Lord of the Rings was good as well, but I should reread it - a lot of it went over my head, even as I enjoyed it. (Lugging it around in school was heavy, let me tell you)

I think I could do this for a long time. I read a ton when I was younger, and I still do. (Good lord, now I remember the Babysitter's Club books!)

Did you read many comic books when you were younger?