OT Childhood books you still own and read.

For some strange reason I though you were much younger than that.
You don't appear to have aged much over the last 10 years.

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I tried re-reading the Lensman books a couple of years ago (with my
nostalgia specs on) and got bored after about 20 pages. The rampant
racism and sexism didn't help either..

I went through a phase in my teenage year of avidly reading the Gor
books. Needless to say I made sure that my parents didn't read them. Or
see the covers..

Phil.

 

I throw out very few books even if they don't get read again / often.
I think the first I bought myself were the twelve Dr Dolittle books
that puffin re-published sometime in the late '60s and they're still
on a shelf at home.

 

That name rings a bell...

Ah, yeah, the dodgy mysogynistic stuff. I knew I'd heard about it
somewhere.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4996410.stm

 

A.A. Milne, the political satirist. 'Churchill The Shit' is still popular
even though the publisher insisted on a title change to avoid an
action for libel.

 

I may just have a quick re-read...

 

?

 

Early primary, wasn't interested in books, Dr Seuss if anything (Green
Eggs and Ham was the favourite but haven't seen it for years).

Later primary I became fascinated by factual books - all the Ladybird
history stuff (although I still don't know who "Warwick the Kingmaker"
was). Also loved the Guiness Book of Records. Now my little boy (6)
has one and we both read it.

Into comprehensive and I went through a John Wyndham phase. At some
point I got as far as "The Kraken Wakes" and just lost interest half
way through. Later still got into poetry anthologies and The Rubaiyat
- lent them to my MiL some years ago and she chucked them.

Probably the only books that I still have from childhood/youth are
"Here Comes Mumfie" (Tozer?) which my kids love(d), Mary Plain (Rae)
which my kids really CBA with and The Little Prince (AdSE) which
remains one of my favourite books of all time.

 

"Winnie The Pooh"

I *think* he was trying to do a funny, but it's hard to tell.

 

Ah. Thank you. I had surmised Eiron might have been alluding to one of
AAM's many contributions to Punch. I should have known better.

 

I still have the copy of "The Wind in the Willows" that my grandmother
gave me, and SWMBO still has all her Milne titles ("When we were very
young" being a favourite). Hope to get the lad reading them, but he is
more in to "Blood Fever" etc.

PF

 

1066 and all that
the adventures of uncle lubin (admittedly not really for the story)
20,000 leagues under the sea (just because it's a first edition and a lovely
object)

 

Great book. My nephew has inherited my copy.

Phil

 

....like James May's less successful, older brother.

 

Great book indeed. I even quoted from it in the recent EDZ thermals
thread.

 

Once you get past a certain point it's difficult to look any older.

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That wasn't the Snow Goose was it, made into a film with Jenny
Agutter? *

* also in Walkabout, yes I know it was only a brief shot of her in the
buff but it was enough One of the films I recall as a kid, that and
Silent Running.

All the best

 

More cultured, better looking....

 

I *still* read that from time to time.

Oh, and I still dip into Kipling. Frequently.

 

That was a Paul Gallico story. I liked his books, as well.

Especially The Silent Miaow, an owner's guide to humans, as written by a
cat.