What did Veeky Forums read as a child?

Tamora Pierce
Anne McCaffrey
James Patterson
Piers Anthony
The Dictionary
I mean it too. I keep forgetting. I'll watch movies from the 80s and laugh, haha nerds! No one REALLY reads the dictionary, that's stupid. And then I'll remember. Hours upon hours. On my stomach on my bed, reading the dictionary, like some kind of fucking nerd.

>>tfw could have been Veeky Forums by now if someone took the effort to limit my time on the computer and help me keep up a reading habit

>tfw too immature to take the blame for my own bad decisions.

FTFY neetboi. Go on, ask me how I know..

Afanasyev, Akunin, Andersen, Asimov, Belyaev, Burroughs, Carroll, Chekhov, Clarke, Conan Doyle, Cooper, Defoe, Dickens, Dumas, Gogol, Grimm, Hacek, Haggard, Hauff, Henry, Ilf and Petrov, Jansson, Kipling, Krylov, Kuprin, La Fontaine, Lagerlöf, Lee, Lem, Lermontov, Lindgren, London, Mayne Reid, Milne, Ostrovsky, Perrault, Perumov, Pratchett, Pushkin, Raspe, Rowling, Saint-Exupery, Stevenson, Swift, Strugatskies, Tolkien, Twain, Verne

I don't believe i was able to make decisions at 10 or 12 years old

>I don't believe i was able to make decisions at 10 or 12 years old
You were a dumbfuck kid then.

Borges get the fuck out of here

pls no bully

I read a lot of Roald Dahl. I loved that shit

how did Dahl shape you? What kind of reader are you today?

If your mum had made you read good stuff you probably would've resented it and stopped reading anyway. This type of stuff you have to find on your own.

WH40K books
Horus Heresy series
History books
Books about aircraft/tanks
Science books
DK books

My life in books (in case anyone was wondering)
I was born into a family of readers, with a decent collection that mixed casual fiction (my mother loved Agatha Christie and similar mystery authors), literature from their university days, a set of Great Books, several encyclopedia sets (Funk & Wagnalls), my brother's juvenilia, and a range of fiction and non-fiction (including many books on music and health). They read books every night on their couches--even after we had a TV and a few channels, there was never more than one hour of TV allowed during an evening. I learned to read by being read to long before starting school, and was always ahead of whatever grade I was in. I remember hiding to read one of Lang's Fairy books (Olive, I think) at a daycare. Of course, nobody knew I had horrible eyesight and desperately needed glasses until I spent a summer in hospital at seven (Grade 2), or my preference for sitting still rather than trying to play games requiring vision might have made more sense.
My parents took me to the nearby county library every week or so, and I used to read shorter picture books there, and then take a stack home. Eventually a 20-book per visit limit had to be imposed. My mother started working part-time at a small used book store, and that was great. I'd often be there reading in the store (and wandering the mall, getting in trouble, going down to the track stables to see the horses, etc.). When new stock came in she'd let me take a box home and read them before they hit the shelves, or take home some stock to read quickly that she would then return (being a fast reader was handy). This was Grade 5-6, and I was reading a lot of adult fantasy and SF. I would read anything, though (then as now).
As a teen, I visited the local city public library weekly (having read most of the county library collection) and got out 20 books per visit from Children's, YA, or Adult. My parents didn't police my reading selection. My mother liked visiting antique and used book stores around our county, so we'd go for long drives and I'd have $10 to find books with in nearby villages. She was collecting interesting bargain old first-editions back then. I was into Victorian and Edwardian British boy’s adventure or school-story books, and antique children’s books.
Once my mother became the circuit librarian for our county elementary schools, I was living the life of Riley. She was buying books for a dozen or so far-flung rural school libraries that only had volunteer staff that she coordinated, which meant that the entire book-buying budget for the county ended up in boxes in our house before going on to the schools. I could even suggest purchases, and got to browse and carefully read anything I wanted. This is why I never mark in books, and when I finish them, they're often immaculate: I have a long history of reading books that I have to give back.

Redwall
Swallows and Amazons
My Side of the Mountain
Gary Paulsen
The Yearling
Nancy Farmer
Greek, Norse, and Egyptian myths
Michael Crichton
Narnia
The Hobbit, LoTR
Artemis Fowl
The Shadow Children
The Golden Compass
biography of Lawrence of Arabia for Kids
survival manuals
Goosebumps
Galaxy of Fear
Firebringer
Dinotopia
picture books about history, Rome was my favorite

I moved around a lot when I was a kid and partially because of that I didn't have very many friends. I read to pass the time on many long car trips or flights. My mom always bought me a huge box of books from the library sale before a trip, and I would often read the same book four or five times.

>tfw your nickname in school was "user the Walking Talking Dictionary"

Unironically the stranger

Mostly sci fi, but some classics too.

I remember the times I'd wait in anticipation to be driven into town to browse the teeny, tiny library/ They were the good old days when the retards didn't come in to bother me: cause there were no computers and people had the civility to be quiet.
Then I'd read all weekend to escape my retarded siblings and the ignorant female that brought me into this world. My drunk dad was kind enough to die when I was seven, but mom wasn't decent enough to die early. But finally she's dead and she'll be held accountable for her ignorance and negligence. Good riddance to her, for everyone's sake.

The Chronicles of Narnia were the most Veeky Forums thing I've ever read as a kid. Of course as I had grown up in a non-religious family it held no profound revelations for me in that respect except that I knew it was some damn good escapism I could really get lost in. Personal favorites were The Horse and His Boy and The Silver Chair which i m o could even be read as great standalones. Two other scenes that have stuck with me for a while was the image of the dying world in The Magician's Nephew and Eustace's transformation into the dragon and back in Voyage

Goosebumps
Novels from the "Just" series (Andy Griffiths)
Numerous books assigned in school

bump for childhoodness

Narnia was probably the most patrician kid lit that I read but apart from that it was mostly Goosebumps and pic related (did anybody else read these?), which was, looking back now, probably complete trash.

>that Papyrus font
>Google tells me they made a fucking anime out of it

My brother had a couple, but we shared books, so we probably red a few. Mostly though, we read Goosebumps and, as was proper, Dinotopia.
My favorite was SURVIVE! because it was basically 200 pages of whump porn.

Treasure Island
The Hobbit
LoTR
Deltora
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Edge Chronicles
The Story of Little Black Sambo
Struwwelpeter
Loads of Astrid Lindgren
Loads of Ole Lund Kirkegaard

Yes I read these in primary school

My mother likes fantasy books so our bookshelves were full of them. And that's where I picked up books most of my childhood. Not many children's books apart from non-fiction. Lots of genre fiction series but barely any YA trash, thankfully.

I read far too many fucking Replica and Animorphs novels though, since mom brought them from the library and I read all of them because they were pretty short. I didn't consider them bad enough to tell her to leave it.

Terry Pratchett was a favorite. I didn't get some of the jokes and references but that didn't keep me from re-reading his early Discworld novels over and over again. Even today, whenever I order a batch of books I always include one Pratchett novel to rush through as light reading if I lose motivation with a backlog piece.

In my early teens I read a few prize-winning novels to impress my English teacher but I was the one left impressed. My mother was shocked and saddened to see me read "dodgy" and "depressing" novels such as Lolita and The Catcher in the Rye but my world was changed and she just didn't get it. Amusingly, nowadays I feel great sorrow for letting her down like that.

I loved these books as a kid
>that plot twist in the last one
blew my mind

I just read a lot of different stuff including a biography of David Essex my mum had when my year 5 teacher told me I should read a wider range of stuff