>books that give you those childhood feels
Goosebumps covers were so much better than the books themselves. RL Stine was a cuck with no grasp on how to write a story, but I'll be god damned if this isn't some fine art by Tim Jacobus. The distorted perspectives, I think, really had an impact on me as a kid. There's something very feverish about these everyday settings so distorted.
probably the only books i read through all the way
>that flip-o-rama
This book
It's damn good. Anyone else read it?
>>27055488
I never read that one
>>27055519
agreed senpai the covers so alluring but the inside was shit
>>27055519
>>27055488
Goosebumps was awesome, the covers especially. Literally owned dozens of them
I read the hobbit in 4th grade though. I also read Stephen King at that age, but the hobbidt gives me those nostalgic floaty good childhood vibes
>>27055488
Pic related OP
>>27055519
>>27055557
Fuck you guys yeah you can see the flaws in them as you age but damn if these weren't the coolest books when you were 9 years old. It takes skill to write b-rate horror that appeals to kids, no sarcasm. You can't just slap anything together (besides maybe the plot), you have to be in tune to the audience and what appeals to them.
night of the living dummy and the one where the kid is invisible and his alter ego from the mirror traps him in the mirror at the end or something gave me legit nightmares
>>27055521
Ma Nigga I would to my reports on these books
>>27055643
Goosebumps rarely delivered on the scares, but pic related actually made me shit myself
This is my jam desu senpai
>>27055524
What's it about anon original comment here
I liked sad books in elementary school
Damn...ffffffffffffiaw0e213
>>27055612
>read stephen king
>in 4th grade
I remember watching the shitty tv movie version of IT in third grade and being unable to shower for a month. How were you affected?
>>27055687
Darker and Edgier version of Alice in Wonderland. It's still very good, or at least I thought it was awesome as a kid. Haven't read it in a while
This book is brutal. (Pic related) It features an actual robot and it ends is misery. Read it when I was a kid also
>>27055488
He dun fucked me something fierce.
>>27055676
My fallback campfire stories
Yo I swear everyone in my school read this. >>27055708
Also did anyone else watch the goosebumps movies? (Not the recent one)
>>27055675
i think thats the one with the black goo, that one was bretty good
this one made me cry
>>27055676
i like the cover art on those
>>27055675
i fucking loved that one
It wasn't even scary, i just thought the idea behind it was so cool
>>27055619
They were shit. I was personally partial to Milton, Cervantes, Borges, Nabokov, and of course Shakespeare during grade school.
>>27055521
i vaguely remember this
wasnt he like an asshole principal and these two kids made comics about him?
>>27055729
These sound interesting thanks anon. Anything else? Did you read Coraline?
>>27055675
>They're watching you learn...
>the hard way
These taglines were always so retarded.
>>27055755
Yeah I was slightly to young to see the show in real time but my older brothers got me itnerested in the books and my library had a few episodes on video. After like 5 or 6 episodes I gave up. The show paled in comparison, I felt.
I also saw the recent movie.
Very old comics.
>>27055785
>Anything else
Other than the classics (Phantom Tollbooth), I didn't read much else as a child. I did read one other book on school shooters but I can't recall the name.
I fucking love House of Leaves though. It's strange and /lit/ makes fun of it probably for how silly it can be sometimes. Still love it
And I didn't read Coraline
>>27055719
While reading the especially scary parts I didn't sleep, at all that night. Those books are part of the reason I'm the way I am right now
Between 4th and 6th grade I read Cujo, the Shining, Pet Semetary, and IT. I've also read a lot more. He was my favorite author for a while and will always hold a haunted, decaying, infected spot in my heart
Never watched th It movie desu, but the shining movie in 5th grade was kind of traumatizing tho. No worse than the book though
>>27055834
I read the books because I thought they were OK and because I would get those pizza hut vouchers for reading alot. The show was ok
>>27055770
I don't remember the goo, but I read it over a decade ago, so what do I know?
>>27055782
The idea was cool, but it also scared the shit out of me. agree to disagree though
Being a kid who could never sleep for several hours after being out to bed, and having an early bed time, I would always read Boy: Tales of Childhood by Dahl.
It's a very comfy book and I must have read it at least 8 times or so.
I took a copy from school, a little Hardback, and still have it after all these years.
>>27055884
>pizza hut vouchers for reading
Oh the feels you just sent down my spine. I forgot about that, thanks OP.
Who /deltora/ here?
>>27055897
That book sucked. Really Matilda was the only decent one that Welsh faggot wrote.
>>27055862
I'll check this out thanks. I feel like o missed slit of good stuff as a kid because I was to dumb/didn't care. If you got the time I do recommend Coraline though. The movie was decent also.
>>27055913
Not op but your welcome. I thought that was just something in our school. How about those scholastic book fairs?
Anyone else remember those scholastic papers the teacher would hand out showing which stuff was for sale that month? I'd get dragon ball z stuff or Nintendo books desu
>>27055519
Like>>27055834
I was slightly late for Goosebumps (born in 1995). But when I was 9, my grandfather got me into Mostly Ghostly. This lead back to Goosebumps, which as it turned out, my brothers owned several of. I read them, and while I was entertained enough by the books themselves, I guess, it was really the novelty of reading out of the old copies, hearing the legend of Goosebumps mania of the previous VHS generation, and seeing the old ads for the shitty 90s merchandise that made me keep at it. I too checked out the videos from the libraries, and seeing the old 90s style previews made me want to splooge. It was pure bliss.
Still, there were a couple I really liked for actual content (pic related)
This book is comfy as fuck. Read it so many times.
>>27055997
shit I meant anon, not OP.
Who knows, maybe we went to the same school. Either way, yeah, we had those. I fucking loved them. As an anon on that /pol/ thread put it earlier today "If there is a heaven, it's an eternal book fair".
The scholastic book order catalog was also true master race.
YOU TURNED ANOTHER PAGE!!!!!
>>27056114
Chicago? If this is Eduardo I want my fucking gba game you shit head.
This is me btw>>27056036
That's a nice quote btw. I ducking miss grade school
>>27056059
Not him but I loved this one. For some reason I thought it had to do with batman lol
>>27056178
kek Phoenix master race reporting in, so I guess not
I'd usually get Goosebumps or Lemony Snicket books
>>27055488
I used to love Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, my fav books as a little kid
>>27056266
i forgot pic related. I loved the surreal nature of the shit that went down.
>>27056249
Phoenix """"""people"""""""
Did you guys get those manga books, those bigass posters, or weird shit like bendy pencils/giant pencils?
>>27056323
we got the pencils i don't remember the other stuff but then I was a pretty unobservant lad
>>27056059
>going through a 90s retro phase
>in 2005
>at age 9
>through Goosebumps of all things
>>27056440
>through Goosebumps of all things
>not understanding how popular Goosebumps were and how iconic they will be to kids of that generation
>>27056425
Me to. I never realized all the things going around me. Everything just happened.
>>27056466
This >>27056440 niggas just playin with you or he's ill informed
I scored the mother lode of goosebumps books around 2002-2004. They might not have been as cool as they were in the 90's but they were cool as fuck to me. The pick your own adventures blew my mind
>>27055676
Used to have nightmares about this one in particular.
Used to dream about seeing it float above my dresser.
>>27056657
They were still popular I think in the mid 2000s.
>>27056688
These books were the shit
Why are most of his characters are 12 year olds anyway?
>>27055675
This gave me a weird second-grade sort of existential horror.
>>27055783
Literally fedora, the post.
Anybody Fuck wit gex and leven
>>27056802
Geth* the original toothpick
>>27055712
desu it's autistic but I STILL like this book
>>27056802
Never heard of this shit
>not having nearly every goosebumps book on your bedroom bookshelf
shiggy
>>27055488
I had dozens of these because all the childhood books I had we bought at Goodwill. So all my kid's books were like 5-10 years past the fad.
What a rollercoaster of emotions
>>27056958
Grim Grotto was really good and then 12 just sucked.
![The_Dark_Is_Rising_6712[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/S0A3muI.jpg "The_Dark_Is_Rising_6712[1].jpg")
This series gives me childhood feels not because of nostalgia
But because it was what made me hate reading
I reread them when I was older and they were better than I remember, but at the time I just could not get into them yet was forced to read them for school
So reading became a struggle, like eating broccoli or being quiet in church
>>27056789
Pretty sure that guy was joking...
At least I hope so
>>27055923
nice
You know NIP made an anime of it? Breddy Gud
Did you read the new ones, the Door ones?
