Kirsten
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Read everything I could get hands on... loved the borrowers, little grey rabbit and Just William especially - also Agatha Christie novels a must from age 11.....
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At last some one else with good taste. its an age thing.Biggles
I loved that Book!When very young it was The Faraway Tree.
Read it to my kids and my son now reading to his son.
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I was torn between the velveteen rabbit and the railway children. I chose the railway children because I had more copies.Riverbankannie. Oh. On the Beach. I loved that book and the film. Gregory Peck.
I couldn't watch the film now though. Heartbreaking. That scene where they are all lined up to collect something (don't want to spoil it for others) and then they lay on the bed... It has stayed with me forever.. I still hurt when I think of it. And it isn't beyond the realms of possibility is it.
I love The Velveteen Rabbit.
As long as somebody loves you then you are real.
I bought a few in a charity shop when our son was about 10 (18 years ago!!) he loved themAt last some one else with good taste. its an age thing.
Ooh yes. The borrowers and Just William... I really really disliked thingy ELIZABETH Bott.. thcweaming was never my thing. ?Read everything I could get hands on... loved the borrowers, little grey rabbit and Just William especially - also Agatha Christie novels a must from age 11.....
Yup that too. Reading was not a daytime activity. I used to go out in the morning on my pony with instructions regarding hand signals and road safety with my school satchel on my back with a drink of water and a sandwich. Home by teatime. Turned up for a detention one Saturday morning on the pony hoping they would send me home - but no! The nuns turned him out in a field - foiled again lolFar too busy playing cowboys & Indians with my pony or pirates along the river bank.
When I did read it was the Ladybird books, Beano, Pooh, Stig, Famous 5 amongst others.
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I did find a book club thread, that’s what prompted me to start this. I loved Hammond Innes - (exciting and intrepid and fast paced) I also did the Dennis Wheatley phase then Frederick Forsyth and Stephen King. Presently reading His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (not my sort of thing at all but I am enjoying it). We read Silas Marner in school and I hated it. Read it as an adult and loved it ??Very early reading was Enid Blyton, Magic Faraway Tree and it's sequel, or was it a prequel, tales of the Faraway Tree? Billy Bob Tales and Shadow the Sheepdog before moving on to her more serious stuff, Secret Seven, Five Find Outers, The Rilloby Fair Mysteries and then really heavy things like The Famous Five and the Adventure Series. Then came Biggles and Gimlet before Leslie Charteris and The Saint, Dennis Wheatley with his satanist novels, Edgar Wallace and eventually Hammond Innes, Alistair McLean, Desmond Bagley, Wilbur Smith. Wheres the Adult reading thread?
Absolutely right. Great stories with correct punctuation. Also, Dan Dare who appears in the Eagle. Clarke Ashton Smith followed shortly afterwards. Nothing quite like necromancy to liven up the day.Just William - Biggles for me
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Very early reading was Enid Blyton, Magic Faraway Tree and it's sequel, or was it a prequel, tales of the Faraway Tree? Billy Bob Tales and Shadow the Sheepdog before moving on to her more serious stuff, Secret Seven, Five Find Outers, The Rilloby Fair Mysteries and then really heavy things like The Famous Five and the Adventure Series. Then came Biggles and Gimlet before Leslie Charteris and The Saint, Dennis Wheatley with his satanist novels, Edgar Wallace and eventually Hammond Innes, Alistair McLean, Desmond Bagley, Wilbur Smith. Wheres the Adult reading thread?
I also loved Smuggler Ben, another Enid Blyton. She was such a great children’s writer, even though frowned upon now for being all none PC.
Wilbur Smith.... My favourite author.
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Yes like lee child’s , jo nesbo is good as well with the Harry hole series. For get the name but one who writes about a Scottish copper who rises through the ranks to the top. It’s a series of books.I was always out playing knock down ginger.
Then when I went to bed it was 2 world war escape stories. That’s why I would like to visit Koblenz.
Now it is Any Lee Childs books.
Until the later years I'm led to believe when he started co-writing with someone else. I've avoided them going on reviews but I could be wrong. When I get up to date with Bernard Cornwell, Ken Follett and the Shardlake stories (name escapes me) I may well give Wilbur a chance again.
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