Been pretty dead here as of late, just trying to generate some diolog.

Think back to when you were young.
What book(s?) do you rememeber that stands out in your mind?

The one I remember from about 3rd or 4th grade is A Wrinkle in Time.(Link)
I remember this was the cover it had back then:


I also remember reading Arthur C Clark and Alfred Hitchcock books and storys back then.

My grandfather shoved "Pawn of Prophecy" by David Eddings in my face when I was in the 3rd grade. Damn him.

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"I'm the best there is at what i do, bub, and what i do isn't very pretty"

I remember reading the Xanth series from Piers Anthony. The first three books came in the same box and thus started my love of books.

Just kidding.

Three of the books I remember the most clearly from my childhood.

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From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
A Wrinkle in Time
The entire Oz series

Whoa. This was pretty trippy stuff when you're eleven.

The Hobbit was the first book for me. Well, first book I read that got me wanting to read more. Tackled LotR after that at like age 10.

I remember this cover because of the story of the robot mice that cleaned.


I could really use a few for my apartment right now.

In third and fourth grade, I had an old dusty tome stuffed with about 50-100 short stories from the likes of Bradbury, Heinlein, etc. Carried it around with me for two years, reading and re-reading. Then one day it vanished from my cubby at school.
Of course, there's one story from that book I'd love to share with my kids, and I can't remember the name of the story, or the collection. Ah, well.

Ok, I put up a joke post, now for a serious one.



Oh, and these:

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and the Sherlock Holmes stories, all were really great. I hope you like those books and approve of me liking them as a child.

there's a very interesting cross-section of the posters here. a bunch of mediocre fantasy books and more bradbury than you'd want to read/burn (ho ho).

but i guess i read the judy blume books when i was like 10, and i stopped reading fantasy books when i turned 16 and had better things to do.

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good to hear

I hope so because that is what I read. Those and biographies of people I was interested in at the time, like Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Douglass MacArthur, Johnny Bench, Brooks Robinson, Hank Aaron and Thomas Edison.

To this day I like reading biographies.

I read library books quite a bit as a kid (free personal pan pizzas from Pizza Hut), but didn't really find any of the books especially interesting until a friend loaned me -



After that, I read a lot of D&D books, then started reading non-fiction. I rarely read a fictional book anymore. Harry Potter Series being the last. I do read non-fiction. I have been meaning to read more fiction, but there always seems to be something more appealing to me to read/do.

Was something I enjoyed, along with

My favorite though... were our Civil War encyclopedia books.... I don't remember what they looked liked, but I think they were red. .. I used to love those books.

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It sucks that this is the best pic I can find of the cover, but Knaak's Ice Dragon was the first fantasy book I ever read and hooked me. Damn, 20 years ago. Getting old kinda sucks.

Obviously when I was very young but this still stands out.