Being a bookhound myself, I loved / still love all sorts of stuff.

Let’s See,

The Black Cauldron Series
The Sime/Gen Series
Heinlien (Almost any of them but esp. Have Spacesuit will travel)
Gates of Ivrel by C.J. Cherryh
Star Rebel Series by F. M. Busby (I actually had to wait for the later books to come out.)
The Belgariad by David Eddings (Same as above)
THe Sander War Series by Ingrid

and many,many more.
I used to alternate between world history, fables/legends, sci-fi, fantasy, and biography.  I would spend several months in each catagory and then go off on some wild tangent into another genre.

Oh. And of course the John Norman “Gor” Books. (Given me by a friend of the family when I was 11 or 12) 

*ahem* Dave, just because you *read* the Gor novels at 11 or 12, doesn’t make them *kids* books! 

Crafty Dragon - 05 April 2008 01:36 PM

Currently I’m enjoying The Secrets of Dripping Fang Forest, the Peter Pan books by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and The Spiderwick Chronicles.  The Narnia books are always good, also.  One of these days I’d like to read the Redwall series.

Peter Pan by Dave Barry? JM Barrie surely?

And who’s Ridley Pearson?

Crafty Dragon - 05 April 2008 08:01 PM

*ahem* Dave, just because you *read* the Gor novels at 11 or 12, doesn’t make them *kids* books! 

Sorry. I had a very twisted childhood… 

Renquist - 05 April 2008 09:15 PM

Crafty Dragon - 05 April 2008 01:36 PM

Currently I’m enjoying The Secrets of Dripping Fang Forest, the Peter Pan books by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and The Spiderwick Chronicles.  The Narnia books are always good, also.  One of these days I’d like to read the Redwall series.

Peter Pan by Dave Barry? JM Barrie surely?

And who’s Ridley Pearson?

Okay, it’s not strictly Peter Pan.  It’s a trilogy of books about the beginnings of Peter Pan…in order they are Peter and the Starcatchers , Peter and the Shadow Thieves, and Peter and the Secret of Rundoon.  I’ve read the first one, am partway through the second, and am waiting for the third to come out in paperback.

Dave Barry is a humor columnist who has also written books, and Ridley Pearson is a novelist, apparently of detective fiction.  At least, according to the book, he was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University.

I would like to read the original Peter Pan, though.

Oh, and the best thing about book 2 is that Peter meets a James Barrie…who somehow knows about Tink…

Accipiter - 05 April 2008 06:19 PM

Oh, and I was Paddington Bear in a play for some kids about ten years ago. . .does that count?

Pictures, please!

I kept preschool book out of my original list, but if we are listing those too….

Heck, I’ll list them later, I need coffee right now

DavePrime - 05 April 2008 10:46 PM

Crafty Dragon - 05 April 2008 08:01 PM

*ahem* Dave, just because you *read* the Gor novels at 11 or 12, doesn’t make them *kids* books! 

Sorry. I had a very twisted childhood… 

Meh. Gor books are really just romance books for men.

Yes boys, if you read Gor, you are no different than the housewives that stock up on the Harlequins at the grocery store.

ETA: Oh, and I agree, they are not for children.

MadCarlotta - 06 April 2008 03:46 AM

Accipiter - 05 April 2008 06:19 PM

Oh, and I was Paddington Bear in a play for some kids about ten years ago. . .does that count?

Pictures, please!

Errrr. . .none exist.  Or ever existed.  And I burned all the negatives, too.  Which never existed, either.

Books from Roald Dahl, read them all as a kid and still like the stories.
Anthony Horowitz: the power of five, the diamond brothers and recently the Alex Rider books. His works are among the most humorous books I’ve ever read, nearly died of laughter at times.
And of course the Narnia series.

Carlotta is the only other person I’ve known who read the Three Investigators.  They were mostly good, though certain authors seem to have been better than others.  I’m disappointed that nobody has mentioned Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.  It’s still my favoritest children’s book of all time.  If you haven’t read it then I chastise you and urge you to do so now.

Skip the ‘sequels’.

And now you are the only other person I’ve ever met who has even heard of the Three Investigators Chary!

I forgot about NIMH, but I don’t think I’ve read Mrs. Frisby.