Authors/Books you read as an adolescent..

...that still mean something to you.

I remember reading Alastair McClean's books (McLean?) as a thirteen year old.

They had a great impact. I could never understand, whether, I was getting older or his books were getting worse.

Re-read some of them there recently. It was neither. He just got a ghost-writer to write most of them. Lazy bastard.

At least, that's my take on it.

For any adolescents even thinking of reading any of his books (if adolescents still read), I would recommend:

"HMS Ulysses"

"South by Java Head"

and my own personal favourite,

"The Last Frontier"

A lot of the the rest of them are ghost-written shyte.

Choco.

Went off on a tangent there.

So AHers, what authors/books formed your childhood/adolescence?