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Old 18th May 2013, 04:46 PM
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My daughter started on Goosebump books.

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Old 18th May 2013, 07:34 PM
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The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe series of books i thought were superb.
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My daughter started on Goosebump books.

Dja know what? I feel old today!
Blimey, even I do! I loved Goosebumps, the TV series was great to. Kids would never be alloud to read anything like that these days, not unless it was by Stepheny Myer and was (as a given) poorly written tween porn to Twi-hards.
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Old 18th May 2013, 08:43 PM
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The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe series of books i thought were superb.
I read, as I've already said, voraciously. But the real beginning for me was the ONLY Enid Blyton book I ever read. It was called "Tales from Long Ago" and was her re-telling of Ancient Greek myths with a few stories from "The Arabian Nights", including the "Voyages of Sinbad", thrown in. I was eight years old when I got these stories and impressed my teachers at school by having a damn good stab at some of the names in the Greek myths. They encouraged my reading, as did my parents, and rarely criticised my choice of book whether fiction or fact. I quickly graduated to Verne and Burroughs (Edgar Rice not William S.) and from them to Michael Moorcock, who is still probably my favourite author.


Elric and his Soul-drinking Sword, Stormbringer SHOULD be brought to the screen. So should other heroes created by Moorcock like; Dorian Hawkmoon von Koln, Corum of the Scarlet Robe/Silver Hand and Jerry Cornelius. But you can bet your life that some twerp will get hold of them and turn them into pale imitations of the great figures that they are just like they did with John Carter. Why can't they please, please, please just take the page and put it on the screen!
Maybe, just maybe that might be enough to encourage kids to read the stories again and put imagination back into the minds of our future writers, film and television series makers.

I apologise I did not mean this to turn into a rant but it did. I am now sat here with a lump in my throat that seems to be made entirely of nostalgia, impotent rage and fear for the future of fantasy. I think that I'll go and start watching "Dune Apocalypse" and see if they did the book, "Children of Dune" any disservice.


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Three of my favourite books when I was still at school were: Day of the Jackal, Day of the Triffids and Jaws.I also used to love the Pan horror stories books - the graphic descriptions of violence in some of those stories were pretty damn grisly.
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Old 13th July 2013, 08:12 PM
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I also used to read the "Pan Horror Stories". Number 9 had the oddest story I have ever read. It was called "Old Feet" by MARTIN WADDELL and was about the tea urn in an office. It is such an oddball story that, to give it it's due, has to be read to be believed.
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Old 13th July 2013, 09:48 PM
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Roald Dahl. The Twits, The BFG and The Enormous Crocodile especially
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Old 14th July 2013, 01:43 PM
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Some of my best reads as a kid were classics like "Treasure Island" - R.L. Stevenson, "Robinson Crusoe" - Daniel Defoe, "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" - Jules Verne, "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and "The Sleeper Awakes" - both by H.G. Wells. These books and others were always being reprinted as "pocket money" books and I would by them whenever I could afford them until I discovered the fabulous world of '50s and '60s "pulp science fiction" books, comics and magazines. It was through reading these that I first came across names like Robert Heinlein and Andre Norton, Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

After that my fate was sealed and I was a nerd before nerds were heard of and for my own personal reading I collected hundreds of paperback novels from those greats and others until well into my thirties, much to my wife's chagrin! Nowadays I find it difficult to read any text and so, because I still love to read, I read more comics and graphic novels than fictional texts.
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I still enjoy the Goosebumps books and love to read the older ones every once in a while. Got to love the old Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books, too.
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Bet some forum members will be getting these updated Ladybird books!

The Ladybird books have just got a whole lot more adult

Including:

The Ladybird Book of the hangover
The Ladybird Book of the hipster
The Ladybird Book of Mindfulness
The Ladybird Book of Dating
The Ladybird Book of Sheds
How it Works: The Husband
How it Works: The Wife

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a6689306.html
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