You Nostalgia You Lose

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This was great.

probably more specific to me but god damn this was good

(there's a scene in this where he curb stomps a kid and it fucked me up reading it for real)

trash

badHatchet

>2001
edgy millennial shit. You probably read that a few years ago.

entry tier, decent
man you guys really had shit taste as children

makes me realize how many of you are underaged or didn't actually read growing up

Sad desu.

t. Children's book connoisseur

He's good to read at any age imo.

The Edge Chronicles (story was meh but the lore and art was fucking phenomenal)
Monster Blood Tattoo (also amazingly developed lore. But with a much better story)
The Five Anscestors (Classic Shaw Bros tropes get)

Come at me, elitist faggots.

i own your pic related

books i read as a kid and actually think about sometimes are the hobbit, the redwall series, roald dahl, and choose your own adventure

>A pretentious literary snob that reads only Kids books.

Veeky Forums, you never cease to amuse me.

>entry tier
That's literally what children's literature is you mong

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There are none (speaking of YA I read plenty of "adult" books that I still enjoy).

Every time I've gone back to re-read a YA book as an adult that I had read as a child I am disappointed and the book or series is ruined.

Nostalgia is ephemeral and best not gazed too deeply into.

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Oh fuck, is this the one where the kid's older brother blinded him by pouring turpentine into his eyes when they were younger? I grew up in a good home, kind of sheltered, and it blew my mind to think that your own family could ever do something like that to you.

posting some more

just remembered this book, which taught me what a prostitute is

what a great message

Fuck this book, even when i was young i knew every single adult in that book was an incompetent shit

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I was so into these that I read the reference pages in the back.

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> btw Ophelia jus drowned lmao 2much2yung r.i.p 1 = 1 prayer

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FUCK

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>no Daniel Boone

and that was where I learned what 'scalping' was

I learned about scalping from some book about a little girl and her family moving to Texas (did people not in TX have to read that?). The rest of the book was really quite innocent, so that being in it was a little jarring.

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damn these were my shit

The brothers lionheart, I re-read it recently and it's dark for a childrens book

You don't "nostalgia" for a book, you simpletons. You yearn for a simpler time free of responsibilities and where you could just be an uncaring kid.

Any time someone says they are nostalgiac for something I immediately know that person and I have nothing in common.

I think I read pic related in 5th grade, it was in the classroom book bin.

Also, gonna ask for a book I swear I at least flipped through in 2nd grade but I can't find shit on. I think it was called "I am Learner" or "I am Leaner," and it was about a mouse/gerbil/hamster/I don't remember exactly. Said mouse/whatever apparently had to deal with some horrible monster at some point; later it turns out the monster was the boy's motorbike. The cover was of said mouse in front of a computer, sitting on the keyboard. I think it was an Apple paperback.

Shit, forgot my pic.

>he doesn't recognize signifiers
>he doesn't recognize that things can act as signifiers for a cultural milieu bound to a certain era (for instance, Transformers and 1980's cartoon toy commercials)

Wew lad.

If you remember shitty television shows made to sell toys and literal commercials made to sell toys fondly then you are an amazing consumer and a truly great goy.

>great goy
>implying I'm not Jewing your people and culture right now

Even us Rabbi have our silly sentiments my toy commercial cartoons were actually Pokemon and Yugioh.

Wayside stories.
Holes.
Bernstien bears.
Hatchet.
Where the red fern grows.
where the sidewalk ends
A light in the attic
Where the wild things are
A wrinkle in time
The phantom tollbooth
the very hungry caterpillar
If you give a mouse a cookie
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Caps for Sale
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Rainbow Fish
Stellaluna
captain underpants

damn i've read almost all of those. too many feels for one day

very surprised to not see this yet

Because you're usually the slowest person?

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read the first one when i was like 9, man these were my shit

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I read His Dark Materials when i was 13. Maybe i wouldn't like them now

I still remember the description of her tooth falling out after her mom shoved her onto the toilet rim.

This is the one where the mother stalks her son, right?

>Pinkwater
my nigga

I love kids lit.
Anything from Gordon korman is still funny as an adult
Ralph s. Mouse
The magic toll booth (I think it's called. I so vaguely remember it but I'd love to read it again)

Then you read shit as a kid

I'm thoroughly convinced my upbringing on stories set in early America about children escaping into the wilderness, such as - and pic related
has given me a lifelong appreciation for Romanticist aesthetics and a fundamental but completely futile longing to wander around the undeveloped American wilderness.

Welp, any UK kids should know this one.

Pic related, Narnia, Redwall, His Dark Materials, The Hobbit. Probably couldn't revisit much else

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Read it when I was twelve, and I turned out just fine. I did, didn't I?

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>it will never be 1830 again

mein negger! GOAT

aw yeah, loved me some hardy boys when I was younger. They pretty much got me into reading.

I read some again when I was a bit older and they dont hold up very well though. Super formulaic. But dat nostalgia tho.

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Not sure if a kid book or not but I liked this one my dad gave me for Christmas when I was 8.

You'll never steal bread and have a cheeky policeman wreck your shit for it

You should read his autobiography, he lived quite a life

I was going to post this. This is the same story as Holy Mountain. They are both adaptions of mount analogy an unfinished novel based on the teachings of Gurdjeiff. I still have no idea what the fuck any of it is trying to say. I thought I was the only person in the world that had read this book.

I can't remember how many times I read it.

I posted it because I remember I loved where it took me, where the story went.

I actually cannot recall past the beginning, when he's home alone and the band of lizards start appearing on tv, where the actual details of the plot went ...

If what you are saying is true about it being drawn from the same concepts that The Holy Mountain was, then I suspect the common ingredient I liked was how they deflated the "super seriousness" of life and living, surrounding us. It's one of those "truth within can be more important than the truth without" philosophies.

I still have my beat-to-shit copy of this and will never throw it away. My favorite book as a kid. Good taste. I never could get through the sequels.

Did anybody read this one

I found it in a pile of books the library was getting rid of. It was so strange to me as a child and I found it so mysteriously that it felt to me like I was hanging out with the lizards. Good book.

holy shit, i was gonna post this. That book was kind of fucked up the more I remember it

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yes

some of these were better than the originals due to their dope af pictures

thought the actual War of the Worlds was boring, but the great classics book was just right. weird aliens too

I remember these having a lot of clever puzzles which i liked as a kid

goat YA coming through, make way

Talk about making veterinarianism romantic, a noble way of life.

How about dumb books that we're never going to read again.

read this as an adult. it was pretty bad. I remember almost nothing from it.

me neither!

Read this in German, called Die drei ???

That looks familiar. Is there a series? I seem to remember one in a castle...

My brother had a book 15~ years ago, about a boy who time travels back to the stone age or something. He teaches them modern stuff like making clay pipes. I don't remember the name at all

There is a series. The only name I remember is Jupiter Jones. He was the fat one. The series was a bit like The Hardy Boys, but with more peril and actual paranormality. Sort of like the Scrappy-Doo cartoons compared to he Scooby-Doo ones.

I was prepared to lament the absence of Encyclopedia Brown in this thread.

Of course they're formulaic, they're comfort food and swell stories. You wouldn't accuse a milkshake of being formulaic, would you? Also, didja' know Franklin W. Dixon was not a real person, but a pseudonym shared by many?

As for me, I'm surprised Chet Gecko is absent. He was and is one of the greats.

>Encyclopedia Brown

I still remember being impressed that a clue he noticed was that there was no tan line from a watch someone was supposed to be wearing, according to their story, so he called them on it and busted them!