Stephen King and James Herbert too.
Books you read as a child... Page 3
Ooh yes, Stephen King. Obsessed with him from about age 11 I think.
It's surprising how many children discover and like his books.
Quote: Griff @ July 29 2009, 5:20 PM BSTYou've been around BCG too long.
Don't I f**king know it. 
Quote: zooo @ July 29 2009, 5:21 PM BSTIt's surprising how many children discover and like his books.
They're not very adult themed though, are they? More like based on urban legends and stuff teenagers talk about with each other.
There are some great film adaptions of his books like Stand By Me. Even though I liked them as a kid, I find them all a bit too samey and slow now. Still, he's created a great setting in Castle Rock.
I bet in twenty years times kids will talk about reading the Jack Delaney books and how much they loved them and how they inspired them to...yeah, I'm talking bollocks.
Quote: Griff @ July 29 2009, 5:24 PM BSTI read all the Thomas Covenant books by Stephen Donaldson. There was an evil Dark Lord called Kevin.
I read one of his and hated it.
Quote: Tim Walker @ July 29 2009, 5:00 PM BSTAlso used to read those books which were pre-cursors of adventure games on computers, where you had to jump to the appropriate page of the story based on your decision/deduction - those were f**king weird shit and so obscure I don't know why I've mentioned them.
Yep, I used to read them. Still have some somewhere. And I remember these who dunnit books for kids in the school library, where you guess and then there's a chapter at the end explaining it all.
Quote: Kenneth @ July 29 2009, 5:10 PM BSTthe Five Find-Outers (Fatty, Larry, Pip, Daisy, Bets) and Buster the dog.
I keep thinking the dog was called Bingo. Who was Bingo?
I read alot of Enid Blyton. I like The Naughtiest Girl book 
, but I really despised the others. Didn't really relate to my life much, although I liked some other aspirational stuff.
Quote: Griff @ July 29 2009, 5:30 PM BSTI really liked the 'Many Colored Land' books by Julian May.
They prefer to be called "black people" nowadays.
I liked her boarding school books. Malory Towers and St Clare's. (Think it was St. Clare's..)
Quote: Griff @ July 29 2009, 5:31 PM BSTOne of the sketches I liked on Tilt was a radio adaptation of the Choose Your Own Adventure books, "If you steal the troll's gold, the next episode is Wednesday at 6.30; if you hide in the cave, tune in on Sunday" etc.
That was one of mine.
(Not really. But I did write Sooty's favourite of the series.)
Michael Eavis phoning Milli Vanilli, I think.
Quote: Tim Walker @ July 29 2009, 5:00 PM BSTAlso used to read those books which were pre-cursors of adventure games on computers, where you had to jump to the appropriate page of the story based on your decision/deduction - those were f**king weird shit and so obscure I don't know why I've mentioned them.
I used to like Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's books. Although I always felt terribly nerdy reading/playing them.
Quote: Leevil @ July 29 2009, 5:35 PM BSTIan Livingstone's books.
They're the ones I've got.
Quote: Leevil @ July 29 2009, 5:35 PM BSTI used to like Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's books. Although I always felt terribly nerdy reading/playing them.
I used to write novellas that went with computer games. A cut above that earlier nonsense I liked to think!