EPTBooks you'd want your kids to read - Page 4
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Melt
Switzerland281 Posts
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wollhandkrabbe
Germany97 Posts
Everything by Douglas Adams And everything by Haruki Murakami - needs to be assorted by amount of sex/brutality appropiate to age. | ||
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
Make sure he starts reading Tolkien at a young age to ensure that he thereafter always has good taste in choosing his fantasy novels. | ||
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Drteeth
Great Britain415 Posts
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
11739 Posts
Where the Red Fern Grows was on of my favorite childhood stories. I read it in fourth grade (it was rated for fifth graders... I was so smart : D). Idk if there was more meaning to it that I missed back then, but it was mostly about a boy and his love for his hunting dogs... I guess there was some stuff about bullies and stuff like that.. I should probably reread it, but I distinctly remember it as being the only story to ever make me cry (movie or book). The Power of One - I read it between Freshman and Sophomore years of HS. I think I probably missed a lot of meaning in this one too. But from what I recall, it's pretty much about a young kid, who is a minority to the area (he's a British kid in South Africa), so he's constantly tormented by the other children from the area. He grows up mostly alone, with just a chicken for a friend, and is eventually befriended by a flyweight boxer, Hoppy Groenwald, who teaches the kid how to box. It's a really entertaining read, mostly about overcoming adversity. I haven't read all that many books myself to try and get future kids to read. I know someone said they didn't think that kids should be told to read things, because it should come naturally. On the other hand, I think not making them read from an early age causes them to miss out on many great stories. I don't think you need to make a kid do book reports during summer for you (I know kids that had to), but just letting them do their own thing leads to them not reading most of the time (it certainly has in my experience). On September 23 2010 02:50 Melt wrote: The Bro Code by Barney Stinson! He's really close with the bros, if you know what I mean. And OMG do I agree with the Phantom Tollbooth. What an incredible read that was back then. | ||
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Perkins1752
Germany214 Posts
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/gd9B3.jpg) those were so fun to read when I was 11-15 | ||
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Raidern
Brazil3811 Posts
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thedeadhaji
39489 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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fanta[Rn]
Japan2465 Posts
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
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Phayze
Canada2029 Posts
Secondly, the mystery books by Lois Duncan. The third eye and Locked in Time notably. Great for those early teens IMO. I will also buy an animorphs box set and have those just istting on a shelf hoping some day they will get picked up and read. Really great series for the youngsters. | ||
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DoctorHelvetica
United States15034 Posts
I agree with the sentiment of passing on the great dystopian literature. | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
EDIT: Also the redwall series and LOTR obviously | ||
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Hasudk
Denmark78 Posts
After that I would like (but they probably wouldn't) them to read the newest danish translation of a medieval danish work: Gesta Danorum, by Saxo Grammaticus. The middleages and especially this work is packed full of interesting fates and people dealing with the different situations life puts them in. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, changed how I see and interact with other people as well as how I see myself, but I dont think it would have the same effect on them. I really believe that it is a book that you should read at a specific point of your life, and if you read it at another point it will probably not have the same impact. [edited to reduce wall-of-textiness] | ||
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ZBiR
Poland1092 Posts
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Randomaccount#77123
United States5003 Posts
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KameZerg
Sweden1764 Posts
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Shiladie
Canada1631 Posts
Redwall, all of this series Ender's game and ender's shadow, sequels are optional and a much higher reading level Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy Harry Potter, I started reading these a few months before my 11th birthday and aged with the characters almost exactly, hard to beat it The hobbit, LotR, again being higher reading level would be recommended later. I read em in grade 5 though, so it's not too bad. His Dark Materials The Song of Albion, by stephen lawhead, absolutely loved this trilogy as well as dream thief his unrelated sci-fi book Dune, at least until the end of god emperor, heretics and chapterhouse, while also awesome, would be optional. I would then suggest the following authors, but not enforce any specific reading: Terry Goodkind Terry Pratchet David Eddings Neil Gaiman George RR Martin Neal Stephenson Robert Jordan, as much as they get panned, the wheel of time novels were my heart and soul for a good year or so while I read through all the ones that were out. I'll go back and read the last few once they're all out (sad that he died, I hope his son is a better ghost writer then herbert or tolkein's sons... There are probably more I'm missing... | ||
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HwangjaeTerran
Finland5967 Posts
Then Terry Pratchett when they are in their teens. Dostojevski for their intellectual needs even though DL and Pratchett are both quite intelligent. | ||
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