[Niamh.]

Roald Dahl was my favourite, I loved the Anne Rice Vampire series too probably a little bit older when i moved on to that. Black Beauty was my favourite book at one point as a child too

[user104658]

I remember reading my sister's crappy "Point Horror" books and Roald Dahl, not sure from actualy childhood other than that. I read a lot of Terry Pratchett in my early teens but tbh by about 15 I was a pretentious little **** and had started on stuff like Plato/classic philosophy, Sartre and Camus, Carlos Castaneda, various other surrealist and existential fiction, I also was fascinated with social contract/human nature theory (Hobbes, Locke/Rousseau, Hume... for you Lost fans out there...)

I read **** like that for fun, I barely read at all these days - luckily I packed a lot of learning in from 15 - 21?

[Ammi]

...back in the day, a book that terrified me was Treasure Island...there were lots of reasons why it did, the whole pirate thing didn’t sit well with me anyway but it was also the Black Spot...that it could be passed on so easily by contact...a bit ironic I guess...but after I’d read it, I’d check people’s hand palms for Black Spot...