OT Childhood books you still own and read.

I told you to put the Doc on the game, there's a growing, untapped
DILF market out there.

 

http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/intro.htm

 

In The Snow Goose, it was a man [played in the film by Richard Harris]
who sailed his boat over rather than a young boy.

Jenny - wow!

Being webmaster of her official website, I am allowed to be a bit
biased.

 

I don't remember owning any Enid Blyton books but I can remember
reading ones at my grandparents house that had previously been read by
my mother and uncles. Those same books are still in a bookcase in the
front room and my 80 something year old uncle who lives there now has
never thrown them away.

I worked my way through many a Biggles (1) book when I visited on
Sundays and used to put a bookmark in and return to carry on with the
book the next week. I never asked to take the books home with me
because they were there for all the grand children to read. The only
shame is that when said uncle pops his clogs they'll probably end up
in a skip somewhere or one of my more money orientated cousins will
snaffle them and punt them out on Ebay.

(1) Are books relating to shooting animals or the filthy Hun
considered unacceptable these days?

 

There were some children, that lived near a railway. That's all I know.

Sheesh, some people are so sensitive.

 

Heresy.

It has Sally Thomsett and Jenny Agutter[1] dressed as Edwardian
schoolgirls.

Oh, ah, right......

[1] She was better in Walkabout, thobut.

 

They're reprinting all the old Commando war comics, so I reckon not.

One of the greatest surprises of my (then) young life was discovering,
on holiday in Italy in the 1960s, that Italy also published the same
sort of trashy war comic.

Only these featured brave, heroic all-conquering Italian men-of-war.
Even at the age of 10 or so, I knew something was wrong.

 

I saw something about that the other day and wondered if I'd be able
to resist buying one if I saw them for sale.

Anyone who went to war using bi-planes can't have been that much of a
coward.

 

heh

 

I spent a blissful half-hour in Waterstones leafing through them.
Remember Battler Britton?

Fairey Swordfish, anyone?

 

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Bastard. I'll probably be spending some of Saturday wandering around
Kendal and I think they've got a Waterstones in the town centre.

I'm sure the Italians also had a carrier launched bi-plane they used
to kill off anyone brave enough to fly in them.

Anyone flying a bi-plane off a carrier had to be worthy of being
called a hero imo.

 

I'd forgotten them - what we used to call "trash mags". I loved them.

The ones I used to read changed in the late 50s from having Germans as
the enemy to what were generally described as "gooks". These mags were
not nearly as good, and I couldn't understand why the change. It was a
couple of decades later that I realised this coincided with the Korean
war and that it was propaganda at work.

 

Our old CC president flew one of them. On *that* day. Missed.
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The Older Gentleman secured a place in history by writing:

ITYM 'she had her tits out in Walkabout'. Not necessarily the same,
although not discernibly different either.

 

No, that's Paul Gallico - must read the man who was magic and jennie
again which are the only ones I kept - may have to recreate that
collection.

It's bugging me. Searching gives this

http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/childrensbooks.html

which reminded me of the Nina Bawden ones.

The one that fits the description most is the little ships, but not
convinced it was that one.

Oh yes.

<passes tissues to Snowy>

 

Shaun Hutson is *awful*. I've still got a couple of Clive Barker books
though. Then I went onto Brian Lumley but that was very late teens if
not early twenties.

We had a couple of Topsy and Tim books, the Chip & Biff must be after
my two were at that stage. It's weird when they go off and read on
their own, in one way I'm quite looking forward to grandchildren as I
can dig out all the books I've stashed from when they were small.

There's a couple of Mick Inkpen books that I (and they) can still say
from memory. If you say 'don't sniff, blow your nose' in this house
you get a chorus of 'it's not quite right it's impolite to fiddle with
your toes'

That's from 'Don't do that'. Then there's the little spotty thing.

The purple thing was horrible,
its nasty friend was blue
They found a little spotty thing
and tore his hat in two

a shadow fell upon them
they said ''here, who are you?'
I'm the thing, that little things
with spots grow up into.

Anyway, shutting up now.

So I do books now and then, I can handle it...

Girls read crappy horror as well! Though Rachel read all of Roald Dahl
(they got passed onto Tallbloke's nephew iirc) then went onto
Jacqueline Wilson who is too much into desperate social realism for my
tastes. Plus she spwawned the hell that is Tracey Beaker.

 

Oh add Ian Fleming to the list. I had what I now know (from looking at
the battered remains) were first editions of four of the Bond books,
dug out of the store cupboard where the books of residents who died
were put. When I'd read everything and was clamouring for something
else I'd be told in exasperated tones 'go look in the cupboard'.
Which is where I also read Hunter S Thompson's book on the Hells
Angels at a far too young age.

I never managed to get either of my two to read the Milne stuff, it
just didn't click with them.

 

MWHID.

 

The Older Gentleman says...

She was only 16 when Walkabout was fimed

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