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skasion posted:At some point in childhood (more probably elementary school but don’t really remember when) I read a series of unsubtle Christian fantasy stories about a kid who got a magic flying bicycle representing his moral innocence or some poo poo, which the sinister forces of Satan (represented by a shady guy who took orders from an evil telephone) wanted to take from him. And there were also scary evil bicycles that were powered by animal sacrifices. And there were Hellraiser demon chains. Book 3 spent most of its time infodumping the mechanics of a demonic social credit ranking system and the conflict was about the new protagonist having to choose between his Jesus bike that kept him off the ranking or a scary evil bike that put him right at the top.
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Slam Pajamas posted:There was a CYOA where a family moved into a small town where, unbeknownst to the family, once a year the dead would rise and tear apart the flesh of some living. They didn't kill and eat every human being that they came across, there was a segment with the reader/their sibling going to school among the living dead, but they did kill quite a few. I remember a segment where the protagonist had to hide in the bathroom stall while they reached up from underneath. I think it was called Ghoul Day or something but searches dont bring anything up. This sounds like a CYOA version of the very first Goosebumps book; Welcome to Dead House.
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Apr 13, 2023 19:56
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Anyone else read the one where students try to overthrow teachers and a dog girl fights an art teacher in plate mail? It ended with a bunch of kids being zombified and enslaved by another group of kids who were obsessed with cars, title was like “the war between the teachers and students” Also: VEGEMORPHS
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Apr 13, 2023 23:07
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WarpDogs posted:you nailed both. I'll grab a copy of the former for my kid, but I wish the latter had remained a title I had forgotten lol. reading the plot summary of the books is unlocking memories that probably should have stayed dead I read nothing else in that screenshot, but laughed hysterically that somebody named all their characters SaDiablo
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Apr 14, 2023 03:10
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FoolyCharged posted:I read a poo poo ton of hardy boys, but I remember nothing other than that they were ghost written and that one (I think there were 2 regulars?) of their friends was named Chet Morton. I don't even remember the main characters names. I read the stupid Hardy Boys and Tom Swift 90s crossovers, and they were so forgettable that I remember one of them had a sci-fi bit near the end that really fascinated me, I remember thinking it was cool, and I have absolutely no memory of what that bit was.
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Apr 14, 2023 16:22
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Fourth grade: A book with a green cover that was about a Native American. I don't think it was an historical novel, so not Hiawatha or Squanto. I remember nothing about this book except for the cover, which was set in a forest and featured a Native American character squatting in front of something he was examining on the ground. Around the same time, I read Maniac Magee about some orphan kid living in a poor area. He made a name for himself by successfully untying a rope with a legendarily tough knot and other adventures I don't quite remember. Eighth grade: The Pigman. Don't remember much except something about a rafting trip?
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Apr 16, 2023 00:52
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Fourth grade: A book with a green cover that was about a Native American. I don't think it was an historical novel, so not Hiawatha or Squanto. I remember nothing about this book except for the cover, which was set in a forest and featured a Native American character squatting in front of something he was examining on the ground. That's gotta be Sign of the Beaver, of which I also remember nothing except the cover and the title which we all sniggered over. A Day No Pigs Would Die is another one where we thought the title was fuckin' dumb and I don't remember a thing about it.
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Apr 16, 2023 01:35
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:That's gotta be Sign of the Beaver, of which I also remember nothing except the cover and the title which we all sniggered over. A Day No Pigs Would Die is another one where we thought the title was fuckin' dumb and I don't remember a thing about it. That's it! Looking at a summary now, I can't help but wonder how stereotypical the Native American stuff was, even though it still seems to be recommended reading. e: Apparently it's based on a real story, so that's interesting. I think my class mostly just found it dull reading, iirc.
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Apr 16, 2023 01:46
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Fourth grade: A book with a green cover that was about a Native American. I don't think it was an historical novel, so not Hiawatha or Squanto. I remember nothing about this book except for the cover, which was set in a forest and featured a Native American character squatting in front of something he was examining on the ground. In maybe like fourth or fifth grade we had to read one about a frontiersman or trapper or something and literally the only thing I remember from it is one dude exclaiming something like "Geeze, Jim, you're pigeon-toed!" I think I also remember a book that might have been about William Tell? I literally remember nothing about it other than a vague sense of like a 50s-era conception of the late middle ages.
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Apr 16, 2023 02:24
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Around the same time, I read Maniac Magee about some orphan kid living in a poor area. He made a name for himself by successfully untying a rope with a legendarily tough knot and other adventures I don't quite remember. I bet he did so in a way that made Alexander very disappointed.
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Apr 16, 2023 02:57
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I read a book in like 5th grade about someone making friends with someone from 'another dimension' or something. the person from another dimension was mostly invisible and unnoticeable, but for some reason, when they stepped into a pool, people could see their outline in the water. Read it in 1995 or so. It feels like it could be Eerie Indiana #4: Simon and Marshall's Excellent Adventure? Here's one, a kid goes to a reform school or summer school and finds a cave with a tiny ancient city in it that he spends weeks uncovering from the sand it was buried in while making friends with the nerdy awkward kid and it ends with the bully destroying the city with a derringer he took from the awkward kid that can only be shot by pressing a decorative jewel on the handle rather than the trigger.
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Apr 16, 2023 04:50
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:
Ohh, man, The Pigman. I remember that in middle school and it was a distressingly sad book. I think it was one of the first books I ever read that had an unambiguously bad ending.
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Apr 16, 2023 21:32
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It was elementary school but it was a book about a vampire bunny or something that sucked on carrots
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Apr 16, 2023 22:36
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:It was elementary school but it was a book about a vampire bunny or something that sucked on carrots Bunnicula?
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Apr 16, 2023 23:24
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Cthulu Carl posted:Bunnicula? Looked it up and yeah it was Bunnicula Strikes Back lol
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Apr 16, 2023 23:31
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 lol the cover looks like a poo poo post
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Apr 17, 2023 04:10
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Bunnicula was my dude. I read the Pit Dragon Trilogy in middle school. I remember the bones of the plot. I know there's a new one since I read them but I'm worried it won't hold up to y own fond memories of it.
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Apr 17, 2023 05:03
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Silentlocke posted:It feels like it could be Eerie Indiana #4: Simon and Marshall's Excellent Adventure? Is that the one where the tiny cityfolk worshipped snakes and the bully ends up poisoned by ancient snake venom?
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Apr 17, 2023 09:24
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Summer of the Monkeys - A boy recaptures some monkeys that escaped from their circus train. Adam of the Road - A medieval minstrel boy has his dog stolen. And one I read on my own that I can never remember the name of: a kid gets a gift from some lost relative and inside it contains some self replicating crab creatures. The crab creatures build some weird tower/machine in the basement and can stop time. Eventually the government sends some g-men to collect the creatures and it ends on a cliffhanger. I liked the book but really hated that it ended on a cliffhanger. edit: it was called The Boxes TK8325 fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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Apr 17, 2023 12:26
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UwUnabomber posted:Bunnicula was my dude. There was a cartoon series too. I know this because in 2018 I was unemployed and goin' through some poo poo so I watched the gently caress out of it on Cartoon Network that October.
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Youremother posted:Ohh, man, The Pigman. I remember that in middle school and it was a distressingly sad book. I think it was one of the first books I ever read that had an unambiguously bad ending. I remember liking the book quite a bit when it was assigned, but now I remember very little aside from the female character lecturing the guy on smoking and the rafting trip. I'm going to have to reread it if I can get my hands on a copy.
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Apr 17, 2023 14:55
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I remember reading a book about the creation of a space colony on some planet where they had a bunch of hydrogen storage that got messed up.
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dangerburrd posted:Anyone else read the one where students try to overthrow teachers and a dog girl fights an art teacher in plate mail? It ended with a bunch of kids being zombified and enslaved by another group of kids who were obsessed with cars, title was like “the war between the teachers and students” https://www.amazon.com/Between-Pitiful-Teachers-Splendid-Kids/dp/0380578026
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Apr 18, 2023 13:47
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This thread just reminded me of this book called On My Honor where two kids go swimming in a river and one drowns so the other goes home and tries to fake like nothing happened (??) I also remember Sign of the Beaver because I think the kid teaches himself Latin at some point and I was amazed that someone could do that
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PsychedelicWarlord posted:This thread just reminded me of this book called On My Honor where two kids go swimming in a river and one drowns so the other goes home and tries to fake like nothing happened (??) oh man this just unlocked a memory, so I guess I read it too. In fact I remember an entire shelf in my classroom, probably 6th grade or so, where there was a genre of book of like... two childhood friends, one dies, the other deals with it in a variety of ways
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Apr 19, 2023 19:19
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Holy hell this is it, thanks
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Apr 19, 2023 19:24
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Near the beginning of primary school the teacher read us this book about a kid escaping from a concentration camp and travelling across Europe to get back to his family. I vaguely remember his friend starves to death and there’s a cool dog and some bad dude tries to hand him in to the Nazis? Seems kinda heavy for six year olds
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Now that I think about it, The House With A Clock In Its Walls. I think it had a sequel, and I may have read the sequel first. I remember nothing about it except a kid meets a creepy old dude who becomes a mentor figure, and the old dude lives in a house that has a clock in its walls. The clock won't stop ticking! Something supernatural happens. Apparently there's been a movie made in the last few years.
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WarpDogs posted:you nailed both. I'll grab a copy of the former for my kid, but I wish the latter had remained a title I had forgotten lol. reading the plot summary of the books is unlocking memories that probably should have stayed dead The names are truly absurd but I still love Black Jewels. The latest one just came out in March and her other books are pretty good too.
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istewart posted:Now that I think about it, The House With A Clock In Its Walls. I think it had a sequel, and I may have read the sequel first. I remember nothing about it except a kid meets a creepy old dude who becomes a mentor figure, and the old dude lives in a house that has a clock in its walls. The clock won't stop ticking! Something supernatural happens. Apparently there's been a movie made in the last few years. yeah, I think that was a whole series? I remember reading a couple of the later ones with the cool old witch lady - in one of them, a lady wishes to be young and beautiful forever and gets turned into a tree. F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Around the same time, I read Maniac Magee about some orphan kid living in a poor area. He made a name for himself by successfully untying a rope with a legendarily tough knot and other adventures I don't quite remember. oh man I loved that book. It's very kind of standard 80s YA fiction but there's something very strong about the writing and characterization that I remember being really fond of. Other adventures included being really fast and good at running, befriending a bunch of zoo animals, and solving racism. Here's mine. Collection of short stories, sci-fi, all about teens in the future. I remember one story had a bunch of rock and roll gangs fighting each other. Another had like a really grim dystopian future where someone's grandpa gets executed for trying to burn a flag in protest? Actually I think there were two dystopian futures, but the other was just a girl visiting an old widow nearby? I can't remember very well.
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wheatpuppy posted:Is that the one where the tiny cityfolk worshipped snakes and the bully ends up poisoned by ancient snake venom? I think I remember something about snake fangs arranged around tiny obelisks? istewart posted:Now that I think about it, The House With A Clock In Its Walls. I think it had a sequel, and I may have read the sequel first. I remember nothing about it except a kid meets a creepy old dude who becomes a mentor figure, and the old dude lives in a house that has a clock in its walls. The clock won't stop ticking! Something supernatural happens. Apparently there's been a movie made in the last few years. Yeah, written by John Bellairs who wrote more than a dozen YA books from the late 60s to his death 1991 and some coauthor friends wrote like ten more. Silentlocke fucked around with this message at 05:49 on May 14, 2023 |
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I remember reading the ghost of Thomas Kemp but not what it was about. Ditto Carries War, that didn't leave much of an impression. There was one of those "prods/micks in love" books but I remember I didn't like it much. And I will never forget the searing hate for Knowledge of Angels. I'm pretty sure you could narrow down age and location based on this but eeeehhh
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May 17, 2023 18:11
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TerribIe boarding schooI story where aII the girIs were named things Iike Mary Miriam Mandy, Jennifer Joan Jane, and AIice Amy Agnes That is aII I remember, those stupid 3 names starting with the same Ietter characters
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In primary school, that would have been kindergarten through the third grade, there was a picture book that I absolutely loved. It showed a city sheet from its inception through time, up to the twentieth century and finally ending with what it might look like in the future. I especially adored the nineteenth century picture, with its gas lighting and horse carts. Whenever we went to the library, I was sure to pull it out and pour over the pictures. No clue at all what the book was called now or anything that would help me locate a copy.
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Ortho posted:In primary school, that would have been kindergarten through the third grade, there was a picture book that I absolutely loved. It showed a city sheet from its inception through time, up to the twentieth century and finally ending with what it might look like in the future. I especially adored the nineteenth century picture, with its gas lighting and horse carts. Whenever we went to the library, I was sure to pull it out and pour over the pictures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vog1shTL6f0
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After I’d posted here, I posted in the Book Barn and that was suggested. I will say, the art style looked a good bit like that and I do remember the pictures spanning both pages, but it couldn’t have possibly been that exact book. It was published at the end of 1998. I was in high school by that time. My primary school years were between 1988 and 1992. I have the vaguest recollection that it was set in Providence, RI, or if not Rhode Island, then at least some place called Providence. I wish I could remember anything about the story it told, but truth be known, I doubt I ever read a word of it. I was in it solely for the pictures.
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Vaguely remember reading a book called UFOs and Oranges about a couple of kids who hitch a ride on a UFO and fight somebody with bows and flaming arrows, apparently the state of the art in weapons tech for the interstellar set. Then they go home. Can’t remember how oranges were involved. Fake edit: Oranges and UFO’s (sic) not UFOs and Oranges.
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skasion posted:Chet is the fat guy. The other buddy is Biff iirc biff hooper i think. biff isnt his real name either its a nickname. also sometimes showing up tony napolitano who usually shows up cuz his uncle or whoever acquired a shrunken head for his curio shop which kickstarts a plot of some kind. iola is chets sister and franks gf is named callie shaw. i remember full names for some reason quote:
sorry for necro. i guess the anti cop thing comes from how they solve all their crimes themselves? iirc the early books had a more sinister, dangerous vibe as criminals loved freaking them with weird poo poo and sometimes theyd end up in a creepy old house or on some frozen lake risking hypothermia. if you have more info on like the anti cop stuff & the redactions wouldnt mind reading. read a fair slew of these growing up
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In grade 7 I read a poo poo ton of the Mack Boland, Executioner books. What I remember from all of them: he killed mobsters, loving descriptions of firearms, and they took like half an hour each to read. Around the same time I also read through a large portion of Louis L'Amour's books. Those were much better, still a firearm fetish, and took like 2 hours each to read. Cowboys, sometimes with love interests. And that's about all I remember about those books
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super sweet best pal posted:And there were also scary evil bicycles that were powered by animal sacrifices. And there were Hellraiser demon chains. Yes, I totally read all of these from our church library. I remember being super creeped out by the evil bikes (I forgot about the animal sacrifices!). Also by the ending where the one bad kid is like the only survivor running around with everyone else frozen (raptured?) Also from our church library I remember reading about a missionary family that were always doing weird and creepy stuff, like going down into a cave with poisonous bats. One time the boy had to fly a plane blind, I think?
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