Favorite book when you were 12?

[spr1975wshs]

I was 12 in 1969. As I remember, this was my favorite.
I still have my copy, which was the 1964 hardback edition.

 

[Grumpy]

I started reading a ton when I was 10, kept at it until the early 1990s when I discovered the internet. When I was 12, I was probably reading anything by Jack London, and the Mel Martin series of baseball books.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I was weird, I never liked reading "fiction". Yes I put that in quotes because what I did like reading were ghost stories, and books about bigfoot, the loch ness monster etc.

 

[Merlin99]

I was 12 in 1969. As I remember, this was my favorite.
I still have my copy, which was the 1964 hardback edition.
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Same writer, different genre. I was more for the pellucidar series.

 

[Kyle]

Call of the Wild, White Fang, Treasure Island, 20,000 Leagues....

Oh... Journey to the Center of the Earth and Time Machine.

 

[SamSpade]

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. First of many sci-fi books.

 

[DaSDGuy]

I was 12 in 1966. This came out in 1965. I still have the hard back copy

Followed by just about anything by Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison and Robert Heinlein.

 

[phreddyp]

I was 12 in 1969. As I remember, this was my favorite.
I still have my copy, which was the 1964 hardback edition.
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Yeppers I had and loved that one also!

My favorite was " An Otters Story" author Emil E. Liers

 

[my-thyme]

The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

 

[Otter]

Yeppers I had and loved that one also!

My favorite was " An Otters Story" author Emil E. Liers

 

[stgislander]

I don't remember 12.

 

[Kyle]

I'm surprised no one has said a stolen Anthology of Penthouse.

 

[vraiblonde]

Gone With the Wind has been my official favorite book since I first read it when I was maybe 10 or something. But I did and still do read everything, from silly chick books to more serious literature to learn things books.

 

[RoseRed]

Gone With the Wind has been my official favorite book since I first read it when I was maybe 10 or something. But I did and still do read everything, from silly chick books to more serious literature to learn things books.

Reading the book shows how much was left out of the movie.

I used to read all the VC Andrews books until I came to the realization that most of the stories were just recycled with different names and locations.

 

[vraiblonde]

Reading the book shows how much was left out of the movie.

The Godfather is another one like that - way more plot than what was in the movies.

 

[GURPS]

Hmm 1977 ...

I was reading the 1st few Tarzan books, continuing to read The Hardy Boys

Otherwise Comic Books

 

[Kyle]

Reading the book shows how much was left out of the movie.

I used to read all the VC Andrews books until I came to the realization that most of the stories were just recycled with different names and locations.

And sometimes the changes they made to the movie.

Read Fatherland by Robert Harris, then saw the movie with Rutger Hauer. Totally different endings and paths to the end.

Blade Runner was like that too. Not the same story as Do Andriods Dream Of Electric Sheep.

 

[phreddyp]

Hmm 1977 ...

I was reading the 1st few Tarzan books, continuing to read The Hardy Boys

Otherwise Comic Books

Read most of those too, good series both of them!

 

[GURPS]

Read most of those too, good series both of them!

I think I got to the 3rd or 4th Tarzan book, and I don't remember how many Hardy Boys books .... coming in just a few short years my introduction to Fantasy with the Sword of Shanara and the Thomas Covenant Series along with Lester Del Ray and Science Fiction

 

[RoseRed]

The Godfather is another one like that - way more plot than what was in the movies.

I've never read that one, nor have I seen the whole movie.