Childhood nostalgia poll

[rachelmanija]

Please reminisce, fondly or not, about any of these, or other books read in childhood, especially if they seem to have, deservedly or undeservedly, vanished from the shelves. I'd love to hear about non-US, non-British books, too.

[Poll #1720139]

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Ah ha, same here -- in fact I'm really not sure if I ever even read the third one, if I did it didn't stick in my head at all. Tombs of Atuan was the one I reread the most, the ending was a little flat and disappointing but I loved all the stuff leading up to it enough to forgive that.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I remember Tehanu a lot better, and I don't think it's just because I read it later.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I've definitely never read that one, and I'm not entirely sure how I missed it -- I wonder if maybe the library I was using at that point put it in YA, so I just never even saw it? It is a mystery...

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

It was published much later-- I was in college, I think, and so you would've been too, if not out.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I reread Tombs of Atuan most too! "In my next life, I want to be a dancing girl in Awabath."