bhowells

The first book I read where Enid Blyton books. I first started reading them at the age of seven. I did read other books from the library but I loved the Famous Five novels and stand alone ones such as The Boy Next Door.

I inheritred the Blyton books from my older brother, there were also Billy Bunter books on the shelves as well as Richmal Cromptons William books.

In my teens I graduated to crime novels especially Ed Mcbains precinct mysterys and Agatha Chrisite and John Creasey and Erle Stanley Gardners Perry Mason books.

funlover

First book I remember reading was "Just William" Then "Biggles"

wadsy

First one I remember was Enid Blyton's "Valley of Adventure" a cracking tale!

Mark O

I suppose Beano and Thunderbirds annuals count as Books.......that's the only reading I enjoyed!

Mark

bhowells

Your absolutely right about Valley Of Adventure. Blyton knew how to spin a good yarn.

narabdela

Enid Blyton-"The Famous Five", :The Magic Faraway Tree" etc. etc.

Capt. W.E. Johns-"Biggles" and also his series of Space adventures.

"Wind in The Willows"

"Jennings", and "Billy Bunter" school adventures.

"William" books (of course)

Andrew MacVicar's "Lost Planet" series.

I'd better stop now but this could go on and on..........

batman

My favourite was 'Treasure Island'.

I wish I had claws.

dremble wedge

Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Faraway Tree books.

Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Various Doctor Who novelisations (usually by Terrance Dicks).

But my favourite (and one I still dip into now and again) was King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green.

Edit- Strange but true, whilst writing this I was just attacked by a pair of C S Lewis novels falling from a shelf - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, so I suppose I better include them in case they get upset again...

alan french

Hi.
I was more into comics. I did get daring and read a children's story called Strongwing. But the person who really did have an influence on both my crative writing at school and encouraged me to read books was Edgar Rice Burroughs. For the unitiated he was an author of many fanciful stories. The most famous bing Tarzan of the Apes, which first appeared in the October 1912 edition of the All Story Magazine in the United States. It was then later published as a book.
Alan French.

alan french

Hi
I was more into comics. I did get daring as a child and read a children's book called Strong Wing. I was eventually turned on reading books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of Tarzan of the Apes.
Alan French.

batman

If we're talking comics .... Batman, Superman, Spiderman, TV21, The Eagle, The Hotspur,
The Dandy etc.

I wish I had claws.

Frank63

Enid Blyton's "The Famous Five", all of them. To borrow them from the schoo; library meant going on a list 'everyone' wanted to be the first to read them.

My favourite of all time "A Christmas Carol" followed by Oliver Twist, Treasure Island, 39 Steps, Black Beauty. The list goes on and on... of course we didn't have TV in those days.

" I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception" Groucho Marx

dremble wedge

I'd forgotten about Buchan!

I thought Greenmantle was the best book in the world when I was 12...

Windthrop

Pulp I'm afraid -

Edgar Wallace (was still being published in the 70s)
Ian Fleming
Alastair MacLean
Dennis Wheatley (about as right-wing as it is possible to get in fiction)
Agatha Christie
John Creasey
Leslie Charteris

Still time to enter 'There Is Nothing Like A Dame' Quiz

BristolUK

Brer Rabbit as well as the 'five' books.

Narnia.

Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine Club stories.

Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators.

Berkeley Gray (or Grey) books of the wonderfully named Norman Conquest...sort of like Simon Templar.