What are your favourite books, and what do they mean to you

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SvennoJ said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah these were a big part of my childhood too, I discovered them in primary school and read them as they came out, with the characters growing up with me.

I used to have the audiobooks on CD, narrated by Stephen Fry, and I'd play them in my room when I went to bed, soothed me off to sleep after many a stressful day.

Thanks for making me feel old lol.

I read Marten Toonder in my childhood. He's kinda like the Dutch Terry Pratchet, reflecting on (old) Dutch society with his satire. Great writer who invented many new words that are now part of the Dutch language. A wordsmith if anything, which also makes it very hard to translate his work :/

I remember doing a book report on him in grade 7 (5e klas in the Netherlands) or rather one day of the week was reading day, 3 kids were picked to read 20 minutes or so of what they were reading at home to share with the class and tell why they like it. Live audio books ;) Basically what this thread is about, but in primary school.

Reading before sleep was a daily thing, usually for hours, I went to the library twice a week. Then fell asleep listening to a hear play at midnight on my alarm clock radio. Always fascinating with the sound effects. Last century pod casts lol. My sleeping patterns were ruined from early age, as well as my eyes reading by the glow of a night light (world globe)

Memories lol. 

Mine had the same wear pattern around the equator! So many books read next to that thing.

Oops, sorry haha, I feel pretty old myself these days; I was born in early 1989 so about to turn 37 and noticing more and more of a generation gap with my 20-something colleagues, not to mention the teenagers I teach.

Sometimes I actually wish I was born a bit earlier so I got to better experience the 80s-90s.