Favorite Book From Childhood

[T0 Th3 M4X]

I meant it as subjective.  Just whatever you or anybody else felt moved by.

I loved the original "The Hobbit" cartoon as a kid, but I never bothered with the book.  When I was in college, I had to read the while LOTR trilogy in like 10 days for a summer class.  My eyeballs felt like they were going to fall out.

I've heard Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is very good.  Attempted to watch the movie, but fell asleep at the start.  Of course it was late, so no reflection on the movie.

The Hobbit was a mandatory read in 5th grade and that took me into the rest of JRRT. Silmarillion is one of my favs still. 

For the other two, you needed to come of age in the late 60's and 70's to appreciate.

I can't remember what I was reading in 5th grade.  I do remember the 4th grade.  We were reading "the Mouse and the Motorcycle."  I'll never forget, not just because I liked it, but I was the lucky kid who won the Ralph poster that was hanging up in the classroom.  Our teacher would also read to us from Mrs. Piggle Wiggle during class.  I can't for the life of me remember what those books were about, but they kept our attention.

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Sometimes those are the best stories.  My mom used to tell the ones she grew up with. Other than that, we had Golden Books.  Always loved The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

I don't know if they still do it, but the schools had the Scholastics Books order forms about twice a year, and that was such a big deal for the kids.

It was the best i miss my grandmother even thou she left decades ago

I feel ya.  I had a few aunts that I was really close to that I miss.  I never knew my real grandmother on my dad's side.  She passed away when he was 4 years old.  My name starts with a "J" in honor of her name, which is pretty cool to me.  My dad still has her old kitchen chairs.  My other real grandmother and my step grandmother were both difficult people to say the least, but it was still nice to visit with them.

[Maketakunai]

My favorite books were The Chronicles of Prydain series. I read them when I was in the fifth or sixth grade and checked them all out from the library so often that my parents finally bought me the series so I would just have my own copies. I remember being very grumpy when Disney released The Black Cauldron many years later and pretty much ruined the whole story...

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'The Mushroom Planet' series.

Boru

[Angrboda]

I don't think I read books as a kid. I've always been a very reluctant reader. I remember having to stay after school every day in the third grade to read those stupid SRAs or whatever they were called. Probably the first real book I read was the summer after 10th grade. I bought the first book in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series and devoured it in a matter of days. Not an example of high literature, but that's where I got my start.

[onlinebiker]

Define childhood.

Under age 12: The Hobbit
Between 12 and 16: Steal This Book
After 16: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Of course, now it's the Bible.

We can't stop here. This is bat country.

[Little lunch]

In grade six, on holidays at the beach, a mobile library turned up and I read the first book of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
Instantly hooked on fantasy until a couple years later when I discovered John Brunner and switched over to Sci-fi.

[T0 Th3 M4X]

In grade six, on holidays at the beach, a mobile library turned up and I read the first book of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
Instantly hooked on fantasy until a couple years later when I discovered John Brunner and switched over to Sci-fi.

I've never gotten deep into sci-fi/fantasy books, but I still read them on occasion.  Maybe 15 years ago, I got into The Pit Dragon Trilogy because I remember there was a cartoon about it when I was a kid.  If you haven't heard of it, it's the series where the boy raises a mute dragon to fight in the pits with other dragons.  Of course normally the dragons were measured by their roar, so it was assumed he would him and his dragon would fail, but they didn't.  Not only that, but the dragon demonstrated that it could be merciful to other dragons it had defeated.