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I read like 70% of the Hardy Boys and some of Nancy drew, cuz that was what was available from my extended family's library. I enjoyed the Hardy boys less and less as they were so goofily structured in terms of childlike mystery solving. The protagonists just tripped over clues, to the point of absurdity. I realize these books were likely designed/written for a younger audience, but it felt banal even compared to Scooby Doo cartoons.
The older i got, the less satisfying Nancy Drew became for me also. ADDITIONALLY, why the frick both Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew have the loser fat sidekick?? Like is it to indicate just how kewl the main characters are in comparison, so lame 
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Idk I'd probably hate Animorphs and Goosebumps now but I think if you still like the books you read when you were like 8 there's a real f-wording problem
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Goosebumps still hold up if you know what to expect. RL Stine is no Stephen King but he absolutely crushes it in the niche he's in. There's one story in particular that I returned to as an adult because it seared itself into my imagination, and its the story called The Cuckoo Clock of Doom.
https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cuckoo_Clock_of_Doom
In short, its a story about a kid that finds a cuckoo clock and makes him begin going through time backwards, so he grows younger and younger until by the end of the book he's a baby.
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I like Stine a lot from what I've read about him somewhat recently actually. He didn't want his stories to have morals or messages or anything, he's just interested in telling engaging scary stories to entertain kids. I loved that shit in elementary school and I think he turned an enormous number of 90s kids onto reading in general with his work and he deserves a lot of credit as an author which he won't get because huge output of children's books, but he's great and his work provided an enormously important service to society as a whole.
If I ever manage to breed I'll buy the complete Goosebumps for the kids. The covers are great (and I'd really like to see them all together on a shelf in my house but don't tell the kids), the stories were fun, everything about them was ideal for the target demo. I'll consider giving Cuckoo a reread sometime this winter and see if it holds up. My favorites as a kid were Horrorland and Camp Cold Lake
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Seconding camp cold lake. I also like the one where the trick or treaters are already dead
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yeah obviously books aimed at children will never hold up, but then there are books like Harry potter, which are quite servicable for adult and younger audiences
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Yeah the first few HP books are genuinely extremely high quality appreciable for all ages children's lit. I reread the first 3 a couple years ago for the first time since they were like new and I was really surprised at what a clever, whimsical author Rowling was. Modern day Carroll.
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Y'all have such unbelievably low standards. It's insane.
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Mmmm yes, when I was a primary school lad myself we only read Proust and Hemingway
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Mm, yes. Quite so.
I actually read history books about major wars.
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Well-written children's stories are still appealing to adults - I still enjoy the Chronicles of Narnia despite them clearly being written for a younger audience.
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I disagree.
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We're due for a rated R animorphs adaption
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Mein Kampf. I thought the author was edgy but now he comes off as some cringe rambling schizo.
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brb putting mein kampf in my 8 year old son's reading list
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Get the revised ANC version which replaces all the references to "Jews" with "Boers".
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Nah I'm just gonna scribble in the minorities that I personally hate the most
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Pray tell, who dat?
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Good, I was ready to chud award you.
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So jews?
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Now seriously, I almost never do te-readings, but last year I re-read Crime & Punishment and it was far from being the "deep philosophical" book I thought it was when I was 17.
A lot of it was just misery porn and there's something about Dostoyevsky making Sonya "purer of heart" through her constant suffering which I found unsettling. Which is funny because he criticizes Luzhin who's attracted to Dunya because of her poverty (he wanted a poor wife whom he felt would be grateful and in debt to him).
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What is deep according to you? I personally can't read anything deeper than a young adult book. Everything else is over my head. (Except for the Bible, that is my favourite book of all time)
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!christians !catholics !bookworms !friendsofbussy-boy
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I'm so glad I had your support and encouragement. I will never forget these kinds words you have for me.
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Why the Bible? I thought you were a Jew.
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It's called being open minded.
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Well now I'm sure you're not one of the Chosen People.
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What do you mean Jews don't read the bible? (I'm 100% a Jew btw. My grandad is a rabbi
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It only counts on your mother's side bussy
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Well, I was raised by my Dad that was the first person to teach me the bible. That man was Jewish, and I'm Jewish.
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You will never be a real Jew. You have no shekels, you have no dreidel, you have no Jewish mother. You are a gentile man twisted by Giyur into a crude mockery of God's chosen people.
All the "validation" you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your "friends" laugh at your small hat behind closed doors.
Jews are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed Jews to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even righteous proselytes who "pass" act uncanny and unnatural to a Jew. Your nose structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get in a real synagogue, they will pass you a collection plate just to take your money.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it's going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame of a Jewish larper. They'll bury you with a headstone marked with a cross, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a gentile is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably not Jewish.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
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Is Harry Potter too deep for you too?
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No, that's my favourite book too! I'm still reading it every night and every night I love it more and more.
I can't give up on it. It truly is my favourite book of all time!
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Which is better, Harry Potter or the bible?
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The Harry Potter series is the more complex one. You have to understand that they both share the common theme of good versus evil.
The Bible though, I cannot help but tear up when I come across the verse about how we are to love our enemies. God truly has a way with words. He truly is a great writer.
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!friendsofbussy-boy !bookworms bussy boy answers which is better: Harry Potter or the bible.
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I can't decide, it's not easy.
Maybe we can each write our own bible or Harry Potter story of personal significance. Let's see who ends up more blessed.
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Idk if BB got an update recently but his shitposting has reached even greater heights.
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Thank you for noticing, I have been studying the bible for a long time. Trying hard to be the best person I can, every day.
I still have a lot of catching up to do with my faith, but I'm a determined lad.
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Did god write the Bible himself?
Then who wrote Harry Potter???
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God is a woman you moron. You can tell by the fact that most of her writing is for women.
I think you may be an incel. Have you tried talking to a woman? I find it really helps.
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But who wrote Harry Potter???
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Wow! This marsey you just made is pretty deep. It really has a lot going for itself. A lot of thought went into this. Bravo! Truly a work of art.
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Crime and punishment is supposed to be funny and is funny. Youre reading a comedy and mistaking it for philosophy. The brothers karamazov is dostoevsky's exploration of morality.
!r-slurs come get your man
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I don't reread books
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i was poor
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I was the same then I became an rDrama user
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How do you spend your millions of dollars?
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On a website full of mentally ill people
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The bangers just keep coming!
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I also like spending my money on bussy
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I also like spending my money while I'm bussing
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Didn't you have slaves?
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Also libraries are cheap as frick for kids here.
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Catcher in the Rye.
Holden is a whiny b-word who needs to get over himself.
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Tbh the neighbor was like molested and cucked as a minor he stood no chance of not having a personality disorder.
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Did you not think this when you read it in school?
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No, I'm embarrassed to admit I was fully #TeamCaulfield when I was an angsty 13 y/o.
Edit: in my defense he was hot in my head
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Yeah I guess as a guy it's easier to see hes whatever is the inverse of a tryhard. I remember thinking that "phony" people are just genuinely communicating something he didn't want to hear.
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Keep yourself safe
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Goddarn phony.
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Fat sidekick is the staple of children media.
But even that has gone to shit lately, where the role gets filled by a black foid and is no longer source of fat jokes, which we all know are the peak of comedy.
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It's so the reader can fantasize about being the heroic main character, when in reality they're the loser fat sidekick.
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Today, but probably not when those books were written
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Any of the old fantasy slop I used to read.
Particularly dragon lance and The Death Gate Cycle.
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I read Stephen King books through grade school and liked them.
Rereading them now, it's a bit of a chore with lots of skimming and eye-rolling.
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I read like the entire sword of truth series. Young me tought it was serviceable fantasy novels but looking back the entire thing was written by a coomer ayn rand fanatic
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Everything I read as a child was based.
Formerly Chuck's.
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All of your effortposts
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A song of Ice and Fire
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The Sword of Shannarra is a heaping pile of LOTR rip-off.
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Shockingly bad book
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Didn't like reading The Sound and the Fury when I was younger, returned to it later and I realize it may just be the most impressive novel written by an American. It's a bittersweet love letter to the American South (spiritually represented through Caddy) and it's kind of a perfect novel.
Neighbor had stream-of-consciousness perspectives of an r-slur decades before they even started treating r-slurs with any sort of decency. The whole book is legitimately light years ahead of whatever passes for serious literature in America today.
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Why would I reread a child's book as an adult?
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Enders Game. Jesus Christ does that one not hold up
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They had some even more awful crossover books where the fatties hung out in chet's jalopy
My favorite part of the hardy boys is how often they got knocked unconscious. I bet they are practically r-slurred. You have to forgive the missed clues, they are doing their best
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i swear they got knocked out about 1.5 times per book, and there was like 70 books
holy smokes there were like 190 books
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Yeah and I distinctly remember them being knocked out by lead pipes multiple times. And their mom is just so chill about them being nearly killed once a book and they keep sneaking out of the house to solve mysteries. All their friends just keep hanging out with them despite near death experiences more than once. If you get in a car or boat with the hardy boys, you are inviting some bad thing into your life. Cops are dumb but the cops in the hardy boys must come from the same universe as the cops in the trailer park boys.
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I read The Giver in 5th grade and again a few years ago. Still a good book. Lots of interesting concepts and philosophy and shit.
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I re-read Fahrenheit 451 back around the time the apparently shitty HBO movie with Michael B Jordan came out. Didn't realize just how intensely the book beats you over the head with its message. I guess as a kid reading it it would still be good but as an adult it's pretty tedious.
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I suspect the Sword of Truth series would not hold up for me.
I should go back and reread book 1. I remember it as pretty good and mostly standalone.
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Spot.
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Darkisle
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I have never read a book twice
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I don't reread books
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Didn't Nancy have two sidekicks? In the version I had she did. Bess was the fat one
, but George was 
They just had to go overboard and name the tomboy George
She had a boyfriend named Ned
Fun fact: Nancy Drew was written by committee or smth like that, and "Caroline Keen" does not exist.
Sherlock Holmes got better when I was older because it was a little hard for me to read when I was a kid
but I tried anyway
I liked every Mark Twain except the BORING ones they assign in school. Easy to read.
I hated Ender's Game then, don't like it now either.
I liked The Hobbit + LOTR as a kid, still like it.
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