National Read a Book Day 📚

[S0FTERSIN]

Happy National Read a Book Day! 📚

What was your favorite...
Childhood book?
Teen book?
Adult book?

[DarkCrystalMethod]

This thread is how I just found out about this day.
Does flipping through a Dilbert one-a-day desk calendar count as a book?
Also to Mr. Pastis if you're lurking in the forms, I enjoy your comic strip too.

Childhood book: tons of random joke books. I absorbed them all. Additionally "Cream of Creature" was interesting.
Teen book: Pool of Radiance(trilogy)
Adult book: The Foundation Trilogy(I think its 5 books these days) and Dune(not the one based on the movie)

[Rio]

When I was a child, incredibly young I had 2 books given to me. What is a mammal, and aesops fables.

And I grew up a furry that likes to argue, debate, and question everything. Its almost like those books decided who I grew up to be.

And I still am suspicious any time someone gives me a compliment, because aesop's fables were full of tales of people flattering you, to take advantage of you. Like the one about the bird and the cheese.

My view on religion comes from the book tom sawyer, which I read in elementry school or early middle school.

[Sidakte]

Ursprungligen skrivet av S0FTERSIN:

What was your favorite...
Childhood book?
Teen book?
Adult book?

Childhood would be all of my R.L.Stines Goosebumps & A Tale without a Name by Penelope Delta.
Teen would be the trilogy of Lord of the Rings along with Stoker's Dracula.
Adult would be the Necroscope trilogy by Brian Lumley & the Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem.

[S0FTERSIN]

Some of my favorite books were/are...

Childhood Books:
Love You Forever, Verdi, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up... & the Bailey School Kids series.

Teen Books:
Eclipse, Empty, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Touching Spirit Bear.

Adult Books:
Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World, The Compassionate Brain: How Empathy Creates Intelligence, Be Yourself Improve Yourself (It's an Attitude Thing!), PostSecret.

[Angel]

I read everyday unless I'm really tired. I tend to like classics such as fairytales, horror and mythology.

Childhood Book: Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Teen: Jurassic Park
Adult: Crazy Rich Asians Series

[Fake]

Why read when you can use TTS to make audiobooks?

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

Favourite as a kid: Deadly by Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman
Teen book: The Jaguar That Roams The Mind by Robert Tindall
Adult: I read Manga. I have almost 1600 volumes now and I'm not gonna pick favourites because most of it is pretty good.

[Rio]

My favorite books were like

Brave new world, fahrenheit 451, all I need to know I learned in kindergarden, the narnia book series, lord of the rings, steven king's needful things, dinotopia, animorphs, goosebumps, the green mile, of mice and men, the art of happiness by the dai lama, cujo, Earth Magic A Book of Shadows for Positive Witches, paganism for dummies, chicken soup for the soul series, lotta books really.

Books I hate are

1984, the catcher in the rye, lord of the flies, anything by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[Goldias]

National? not world?
Then I guess I don't have to read.

Other than classic novels I just read weird book that no one else read.
Like witchcraft, poison, curse, or something like that from various culture.
Too bad poisoner and Assassin is not honest profession today.

[S0FTERSIN]

Ursprungligen skrivet av DarkCrystalMethod:

Does flipping through a Dilbert one-a-day desk calendar count as a book?

I don't make the rules of the "holiday," but for the sake of this thread... sure! 🙂

I'd considered including comics in my own answer as well, but neglected to because I pondered the same question of "does it count?" Nevertheless, I quite enjoyed the Fables series.

I also quite enjoyed reading through my old "Dad Jokes & Puns" desk calendar a few years ago. 😁

[Sidakte]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Goldias:

National? not world?
Then I guess I don't have to read. :GhostScary:

Other than classic novels I just read weird book that no one else read.
Like witchcraft, poison, curse, or something like that from various culture.
Too bad poisoner and Assassin is not honest profession today.

honestly i would like to have a stroll through your books one day, some day.
just to check titles etc.

[LeviathanWon]

There is too many to list.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

My artwork tab shows my DVD collection (three bookshelf pics).
Movies have mostly replaced books for me... mostly...

[LeviathanWon]

Amazon owns goodreads - a social media website about reading and books, go there and find some friends to talk about books with.

[Rio]

Ursprungligen skrivet av DarkCrystalMethod:

My artwork tab shows my DVD collection (three bookshelf pics).
Movies have mostly replaced books for me... mostly...

I know that feel. I used to try to read a book a day, every day. Because reading was how I filled my biological need to talk to people, without having to talk to people.

But once I got the internet, that was my new outlet.