86 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taft 13 Mar
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Literally opened this thread to say this.
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127 sats \ 0 replies \ @co574 13 Mar
The Phantom Tollboth 🫶🏼 So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they are impossible
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Maybe Jurassic Park. It was probably a Crichton novel, but it might have been Sphere or Congo. I read them all pretty much back-to-back-to-back.
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Ho ho, that goes waaaay back… Maybe Chariots of The Gods by Däniken, actually!
That would be more than 4 decades ago…
The Hobbit
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
That's a great picture, by the way. Is that a Rockwell?
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Paradise Lost by John Milton
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We Reach The Moon. It was a book put out by the NY Times (back when it actually published some news) right after the moon landing. I was an obsessed kid.
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76 sats \ 1 reply \ @co574 13 Mar
#tothemooon 🚀🌕
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That's of course if you think it really happened 😀
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The BFG by Roald Dahl.
Got it as a prize for coming in second in class during fifth grade. Read it countless times.
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The Monster at the end of this Book
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OC 14 Mar
The Twits by Roald Dahl. Still have the same copy over 30 years later. Falling apart but I've passed it on to my girls and watching it have the same effect on them is priceless
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It's a toss up between The Hobbit or The Magicians Nephew. Man.... Side note - Have you ever wanted to go back in time/have the ability to read your favourite book for the first time again?
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The first? Definitely the Hobbit.
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It was a long time ago but I think it was
The Headless Horseman by Mayne Reid
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The Chronicles of Narnia or Wayside School is Falling Down
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Most of my child books were with illustrations and it stopped my imagination development.
I remember one book of my middle age without illustrations and it was Rabbits and Boa Constrictors by Fazil Iskander And this is one of the book that hit imagination
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I can't remember the first one but what will always stand out to me is the spawn comics for some reason
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Journey to the West (Wikipedia link)
I was primed by the 80s TV series, which I watched with fascination during my early childhood. Finally went on to read the Chinese version of the book at 10 years old. The Monkey King simply kicks ass!
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Out of the planet silence - CS Lewis. I dont't recall exactly why, but really liked as a teenager.
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Hmm... Maybe The Giver? Hard to say really.
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Read it in third grade.
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The Hobbit
for some reason the first of Tolkeins books i read some of as a kid was the Two Towers...must have had a cool cover or something so i dove into it and still remember it lighting my imagination on fire 😄