Authors/Books you read as an adolescent..

Butterface · 28-08-2012 05:30PM

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
LOTR
The Adrian Mole series

When I was in primary school I really enjoyed the Marita Conlon-McKenna Children of the Famine trilogy. It was the first time I started to think about Ireland's history. Would love to read them again.

FloatingVoter · 28-08-2012 05:37PM

Adrian Mole books.
Portrait of the Artist (it was a school text but I loved it - due another read).
Anything Pratchett (still a fan).
Stephen King (ditto)
Non fiction relating to WW2.
I did Asterix and Tintin when I was younger but still have a soft spot.

chakotha · 28-08-2012 05:37PM

Used to read the LOTR every Autumn for about 5 years. Stephen Donaldson's Covenant chonicles.

Most of Frederick Forsyth, Robert Ludlum, Wilbur Smith, Jeffrey Archer, Sidney Sheldon, Stephen King.

Giselle · 28-08-2012 05:49PM

My first real love was "The Velveteen Rabbit" and I remember being hooked on 'Horrible Histories'

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When I was about 12 I went through a Virginia Andrews phase (really depressing horrible books, but really easy quick reads), and from then on I read whatever was lying around.

I read a lot as a kid and I remember after a relative came to stay I read about eight Jeffrey Archer books in a row and followed it up with many, many Clive Cussler adventures and Stephen King horrors like 'Salems Lot, that didn't scare me as much as I wanted them to.

Red Hand · 28-08-2012 06:30PM

Giselle wrote: »

I read a lot as a kid and I remember after a relative came to stay I read about eight Jeffrey Archer books in a row...

They make super loo paper as well.:pac: Multi use.:P

I read the encyclopedia as a child. World Book. That was my education, really. Unfortunately, the one we had was bought at the year of my birth so everything was out of date in the early to mid nineties. It was about '97 before I realised that there was no East Germany.:D

Other than reading and rereading the above, an aunt gave me a load of these pulp fiction novels from the 50s, that had been sold on from libraries. Most were detective/private eye stories. Nobody swore in them.:)

As an adolescent, I think it was just Irish authors and nearly all short stories. Frank O Connor and Padraic o Conaire. And the out of date World Book.

Edit: How could I forget Dinosaurs! I had every issue, all hundred and something of them.

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