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If you're a child, say what you like. If you're older what had you read when you were younger.

As a kid in the 70s I read Hardy Boys adventures. Girls read a similar series called Nancy Drew.

If you're a child, say what you like. If you're older what had you read when you were younger. As a kid in the 70s I read Hardy Boys adventures. Girls read a similar series called Nancy Drew.

HerkyHawkeye

#2

When I was a kid, we read breakfast cereal cartons. We didn’t have kindle.

clousems

#3

Sword in the Stone is always great, but I don’t know if I believe in the concept of “age appropriate” books. By the time I finished 4th grade, I had read the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Le Morte D’Arthur, Red Badge of Courage, and Taras Balba.

HerkyHawkeye

#4

@clousems said in #3:

Sword in the Stone is always great, but I don’t know if I believe in the concept of “age appropriate” books. By the time I finished 4th grade, I had read the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Le Morte D’Arthur, Red Badge of Courage, and Taras Balba.
WOW, great job! You must have been in the fourth grade a long time! (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

@clousems said in #3: > Sword in the Stone is always great, but I don’t know if I believe in the concept of “age appropriate” books. By the time I finished 4th grade, I had read the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Le Morte D’Arthur, Red Badge of Courage, and Taras Balba. WOW, great job! You must have been in the fourth grade a long time! (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

CSKA_Moscou

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#5

The nose (Gogol), 20,000 leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island, Master Zacharius...(Jules Verne), Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe), Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift), The Old Country (Mordicai Gerstein)

ovoid-voivod

#6

@clousems said in #3:

Sword in the Stone is always great, but I don’t know if I believe in the concept of “age appropriate” books. By the time I finished 4th grade, I had read the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Le Morte D’Arthur, Red Badge of Courage, and Taras Balba.
Yea dude. I remember being sitted on the edge of a well in a former Cistercian abbey, reading Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, when a visitor came and asked me "aren't you a bit young to read that?". I looked at her in the eyes and said "no."

@clousems said in #3: > Sword in the Stone is always great, but I don’t know if I believe in the concept of “age appropriate” books. By the time I finished 4th grade, I had read the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Le Morte D’Arthur, Red Badge of Courage, and Taras Balba. Yea dude. I remember being sitted on the edge of a well in a former Cistercian abbey, reading Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, when a visitor came and asked me "aren't you a bit young to read that?". I looked at her in the eyes and said "no."

Filfthy

#7

The first book I remember reading cover to cover was The Twelve Labors of Hercules by Robert Newman. Although I liked fantasy and mythology. I don;t think I would have been interested in Harry Potter because I didn't like being a kid I wanted to picture myself in the shoes of an adult.