90's uncs, the last generation of kids that read books as children, what was your go to formative series you picked up at the book faire that defined your tastes as an adult?
>>25224806Berenstein bears
>>25224806Goosebumps and its knockoff series from my cunt
>>25224806I got really into the choose your own Goosebumps books
>>25224806>the last generation of kids that read books as childrenYou’re mostly right though I forced my son to read from a young age (he was born in 2007) and now he hates it. Maybe I should have given these books to him. Or maybe he’s just a fucking idiot.
>>25224830Two of my freinds are teachers and they really struggled to get kids to do anything but watch peppa pig videos on youtube and they bought a bunch of Goosebumps books out of their own pocket, because thats what teachers have to do nowadays apparently, and it got them all reading a lot and grades improved. R.L Stine is kind of a hack but still deserves props for his ability to get millions of kids to read who otherwise had a future as gas station vampires after graduation.
>>25224837As if a degree would land you a better job nowadays
this shit made me want to be a marine biologist who explores the mariana trench for a good 6 months
This may be the place to ask. There was a book I read as a kid where the protagonist was a young girl. All I remember about it was that she had a photographic memory and literally said "click" to herself to memorize things. I know it's extremely vague, but does anybody happen to know what it is?
>>25224837Yeah. I think with the abundance of digital media now kids don’t want to read, not to sound like the most cliched old twat ever. My brother’s kids are the same, iPad babies or whatever. And yes, you can do better than this guy I imagine (I never read them, I must have been in my late teens around the time they were written) but it’s not like many kids care. I gave my kid Roald Dahl because that’s what I read as a kid, which should be easy, no? But even with him, they treat it like a chore.
I was born in the mid80s and my little elementary school library was built in 1913, and hadn't ever been remodeled. All of the furniture, decorations and posters were from the 70s or earlier, as were most of the books. It was such a bizarre juxtaposition to have the book fair people come and set up displays of modern children's books like Goosebumps.The old Boy's Life magazines.went hard, though. I feel bad zoomers and younger millennials didn't get a taste of that fleeting old world.
>>25224871Also Harris and Me was the best children's book I read in elementary school.
>>25224862The thing with Dahl is his books are sold as kids books but are really for old cunts that want to pretend living in a small village where the town pedo was "just fooling around with gels" and everyone was openly racist was a simpler better time. No kid wants to read Danny the champion of the world thats just about two gypos poaching. Goosebumps is silly but its monsters and ghoulies and thats what kids want.
>>25224933>The thing with Dahl is his books are sold as kids books but are really for old cunts that want to pretend living in a small village where the town pedo was "just fooling around with gels" and everyone was openly racist was a simpler better time.Aye but it was, y’know lad.
>>25224935No, it wasn't.
I was a Goosebumps kid too. Come to think of it, yeah, short horror fiction is still my favourite.
>>25224806I loved goosebumps, but I feel like a lot of the appeal to me was that it has a strong 90s flavor to the horror that modern crap does not have. I still read some old horror anthologies I like, but I feel unfulfilled with the horror genre nowadays. So if anything Goosebumps made me less inclined to read horror.
I grew up on Goosebumps too because I'd get grounded often so all I had were these books to pass the time. >>25224818>from my cuntTook me a while to realize you were using /int/ slang lmao
For me it was The Eyes of Kid Midas
>>25225080The podcast reboot wasn't bad either
>>25225053This has extreme mormon energy.
>>25225080Oh my god I loved those books when I was a kid. Christ, I haven't thought about those in forever. Didn't he have some retarded dog sidekick? They lived out on a Texas ranch or something with a redneck owner?
>>25224808>steinGo back to the shadow realm. >>25224837Honestly R L Stein didn't get a single kid to fucking read. The cover artist of those books got kids to read. >>25224861Cam Jackson. I hated that fucking book. Fuck you for bringing it up.
>>25224806I never stole from them even though I always thought about it
>>25224806I loved the choose your own adventures ones but I would seethe really hard when I felt like I chose a good option but it turned out bad.
>>25225338It does look based.
I can't remember any book faires in my local school so speaking more generally - Probably David Eddings, I was absolutely hooked on The Belgariad, Sparhawk and the Althalus books for a while. I also read the Illiad and Odyssey at a young age, but that was less because of a preternatural love for heroism and more because the covers looked like my guys in Age of Empires. Sorry /lit/.
>>25224806The Redwall series were great and there always seemed to be a new one or one I hadn't read. They don't even have most of them at the library anymore.
>>25224806I used to consume goosebumps by the truckload in 6th grade. Kino stuff
>>25224806Not necessarily a book in the traditional sense but I liked these
