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Offline Penguin

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The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« on: March 11, 2012, 09:08:46 PM »
What is the best book that you ever read before you declared yourself a 'teenager'?  Mine is without at a doubt "The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers.  It came out in 1999 and I've read it cover to cover four times.  I'm taking my fifth journey into that wondrous land even though I'm fifteen- it's good for all ages and the writing quality is incredible.  Don't try to read it quickly, though.  Read it in bed each night, and keep going until your eyelids get in the way.  It'll last you a month if not more.

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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2012, 09:11:59 PM »
The Hobbit
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2012, 09:13:14 PM »
Red Nails by REH
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2012, 09:14:29 PM »
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2012, 09:16:56 PM »
Quote from: coombz on March 11, 2012, 09:11:59 PM
The Hobbit

Hey me too. The first novel I ever read.
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2012, 09:17:59 PM »
Spare Parts by Buzz Williams
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2012, 09:19:24 PM »
Where the Red Fern Grows, Grapes of Wrath, and the big one, a book I got as a 10-year old from a Goodwill bin. It was all about the Pacific naval war.

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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2012, 09:24:52 PM »
Where the red fern grows, old yeller, all the eye witness books
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2012, 09:38:34 PM »
Gotta go with The Hobbit too...

But I also really enjoyed Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2012, 09:39:36 PM »
Red Dwarf
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2012, 09:45:44 PM »
Jurassic Park
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2012, 09:54:42 PM »
30 Seconds over Tokyo --- read it 7 times  before getting out of school

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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2012, 10:00:47 PM »
As a kid, Charlie in the Chocolate Factory was my favorite. The Lord of the Rings as a whole is my favorite now though. Tolkien has such imagination and eloquence as to amaze me every time I read even a portion of it over again.
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2012, 10:05:48 PM »
War and Peace. Not even kidding. Mind you, I didn't understand a lot about the time period, but it was an interesting read, lots of the whole cavalry/artillery thing. I need to re-read it though. Been a few years :/
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Re: The Best Book You Ever Read as a Kid
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2012, 10:05:57 PM »
"The Last Full Measure" - the only book that's ever made me want to man-cry.
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