Childhood Books - Your Favs?

[Delirium]

Originally Posted by Demdike

I also loved these - Fighting Fantasy Adventure gamebooks.

Oddly enough this was as far as orcs, trolls and shit went as i've never played a role playing game in my life. Or at least not one that doesn't involve a girl.

Me too. Loved them as a kid. Deathtrap Dungeon was the one!

[Mojo]

Originally Posted by Demdike

Like others here, the reading of my childhood was made up of the Doctor Who Target novels.

Me too Dem. Used to love seeing these lined up in the bookshops. The Cave Monsters was the first one I read. Wish they'd reprint another selection of these.

Another favourite collection in my youth...

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[Hawkmonger]

Originally Posted by Demdike

Like others here, the reading of my childhood was made up of the Doctor Who Target novels.

I still have that original printning of Warriors of the Deep and The Loch Ness Monster.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

I still have that original printning of Warriors of the Deep and The Loch Ness Monster.

Fortunately, Like Bizarre_eye i still have mine.

I'm fairly sure i have them all.

[troggi]

When I wasn't out with my mates throwing myself around building sites or trying not to drown in quarries I was an insatiable reader of fantasy, science fiction and horror.

I remember reading a square format illustrated 2 volume collection of Poe which really got me switched on to horror as did the Pan horror stories (which I would love to get again) and the "Creepy" and "Eerie" comics from Warren (which I would also like to see reprinted.

As for Science Fiction; H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, the list goes on.

Fantasy or sword and sorcery as we called it then wasn't as easy to come by. It was basically "The Hobbit" or Robert E, Howard's "Conan" and other Heroes and his close students Lyon Sprague DeCamp and Lin Carter.

My other source of reading material was, of course, the American Comics. I was bitten when I first opened a Batman comic and a Spiderman Comic in 1966-67 and have never lost my love for them!

Computers are great but please encourage your children to read copious amounts of thrilling adventure stories. It will pay off in bucket loads. Out of the children I work with I can tell, without a reading, writing or spelling test which ones have grown up with books and which ones don't even see a newspaper in the house. The book kids have an imagination, a spark. The kids who've been plonked in front of a telly or computer are totally lacking in imagination, they've never had to imagine it's all been in front of 'em on the screen!

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[RedEyeTheCylon]

Watch 'Em Kill - A pretty bizarre story about killer plastic versions of the classic monsters which sprout from colored pellets when water is added. I used to read it practically every week:

[Demoncrat]

Aye, the Target books. Both Alice books, Carrie, Herbert, Naked Lunch (which I found in the school library....I shit you not).

[SCM]

I grew reading the Goosebumps stuff

and I read some Batman stuff such as

[Slippery Jack]

Originally Posted by SCM

I grew reading the Goosebumps stuff

Same here (must be similar age) - I did the Goosebumps books (which all seemed to be written by R.L. Stine I remember?) at Junior School, before upgrading to the Point Horror books, kind of like going from a PG to a 12 rating . . .

[SCM]

Yeah, I started off reading these and somehow touched upon Edgar Alan Poe's work a few months later (just don't ask how I ended up jumping from Goosebumps to Poe)