Books I Loved as a Kid

[brobear]

The Jungle Book
The Second Jungle Book
TARZAN OF THE APES
THE RETURN OF TARZAN
THE BEASTS OF TARZAN
THE SON OF TARZAN
TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR
JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN
TARZAN THE UNTAMED
TARZAN THE TERRIBLE
TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION
TARZAN AND THE ANT MEN
TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE
TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE
TARZAN THE INVINCIBLE
TARZAN TRIUMPHANT
TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD
TARZAN AND THE LION MAN
TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN  
TARZAN AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY
TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT
TARZAN AND THE FOREIGN LEGION
TARZAN AND THE MADMEN
TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS
TARZAN AT THE EARTH’S CORE
TARZAN’S QUEST
( a long list of other Edgar Rice Burroughs novels ) 
The Doc Savage books.
The Conan Books by Robert E. Howard.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood 
The Three Musketeers
Treasure Island  
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Dracula
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
( to name a few )

[OldGreenGrolar]

Good books. I will post my list later. Moby Dick was among my favourites. I wished there was a book called Tarzan and the Silver grizzly. Sadly that book does not exist.

[brobear]

Aug 10, 2020 3:33:07 GMT -5 OldGreenGrolar said:

Good books. I will post my list later. Moby Dick was among my favourites. I wished there was a book called Tarzan and the Silver grizzly. Sadly that book does not exist.

TARZAN AT THE EARTH’S CORE... the ape-man fights with a cave bear. Only bear of the 24 novels. There is not a single book in the set that I read only once.

[OldGreenGrolar]

/\ Who won between the ape man and cave bear ?

[brobear]

Aug 10, 2020 4:29:05 GMT -5 OldGreenGrolar said:

/\ Who won between the ape man and cave bear ?

In the vast inner-earth land of prehistoric beasts ( Pellucidar ) Tarzan was being chased by a huge cave bear. As a kid, I remember thinking, "Tarzan never ran from a lion". But he was running from the bear until his pride got the better of him. So he managed to climb up above the bear ( on the side of a mountain ) and ambushed the bear from above, killing the bear with his hunting knife. 
                                                                                                      

[OldGreenGrolar]

Alright. There is definitely some fiction there. Attacking a much larger and stronger cave bear is dangerous even by ambush given cave bears have flexible forearms.

[OldGreenGrolar]

• Moby Dick
• White Fang
• Tarzan
• Jungle Book
• Free Willy

[brobear]

Aug 10, 2020 6:14:16 GMT -5 OldGreenGrolar said:

• Moby Dick
• White Fang
• Tarzan
• Jungle Book
• Free Willy

I read both "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" by Jack London. Great Books. Also "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twin.  

[brobear]

I've been wrong a time or two. I remember seeing this book on the bookshelf at the bookstore. On the cover was this skinny kid holding a magic wand. I thought to myself, "that book will never sell". Several years later, everyone is talking about Harry Potter.
I remember seeing this book on the bookshelf at the bookstore. On the cover was this big shark swimming straight-up towards a young lady swimming. I thought to myself, "how scary can a shark be? Its a fish". Next thing I know, everyone is talking about Jaws.

I little more recently I read a book titled, "Flint and Silver" which ( IMO ) should be a popular novel and a movie. Very well written. It is a prequel to "Treasure Island". In Robert Lewis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" the story is pretty much just a middle portion of a story. "Flint and Silver" answers a lot of questions such as, "why is the pirate called 'Long John?', how did he lose his leg?, how does he happen to own a parrot named 'Capt. Flint?", how did he become a pirate?, why did he bury the treasure on the island?" and other questions answered.

[tom]

Brobear may be the only one to remember this book series called "The Hardy Boys". Read many of the series books. Once started they were hard to put down.

[OldGreenGrolar]

I used to read this book as a child over and over again.

[brobear]

Sept 3, 2020 11:07:03 GMT -5 tom said:

Brobear may be the only one to remember this book series called "The Hardy Boys". Read many of the series books. Once started they were hard to put down.

And for the girls there was Nancy Drew. 

[brobear]

My Dad only read two categories of books; Westerns and War ( Cowboys and Combat ). He had a really nice set of hardback Zane Grey novels. I read quite a few of those. But mostly he was reading paperback novels; some by Louis L'Amour. So yeah, I read my share of those.

[OldGreenGrolar]

[OldGreenGrolar]

[brobear]

I also read "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and "The Time Machine".

[brobear]

Sept 24, 2020 5:14:38 GMT -5 brobear said:

I also read "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and "The Time Machine".

Remembering more:
I read; "Peter and Wendy" by J.M. Barrie. Actually not a bad read.
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" - ( IMO ) the book sucked; the movie is much better. They used only the best parts of an over-long story. 
"Swiss Family Robinson" - ( IMO ) the book sucked; the Disney movie much better. 
"Alice in Wonderland" - I enjoyed this one. 
I read the Roy Rockwood's "Bomba, the Jungle boy" series of 20 books. As a boy, I enjoyed. But not so great a writer as Kipling or Burroughs. 
During the 1970s, I enjoyed paperback novels of "Doc Savage", "The Shadow", and Lee Falk's "The Phantom". ( all Pulp Fiction heroes ). 
"Old Yeller" - the movie pretty-much mirrored the book.
I also read "Black Beauty", "The Black Stallion", and other horse and dog stories that I cannot remember the titles to. 

[brobear]

I think every boy ( or young man ) should read the classics such as Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Old Yeller, Black Beauty, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and so much more. To not read the classics is like living with Amnesia; because you're missing out on a huge piece of culture ( never having the experience is no different than an amnesia victim forgetting ). You are left with an unfilled void. 
 
*Note: comic book versions and movies are not acceptable replacements.    
                                

[brobear]

Bomba the Jungle Boy by Roy Rockwood. A 20-book series. I had nearly forgot about these.

[brobear]

Sept 24, 2020 5:14:38 GMT -5 brobear said:

I also read "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and "The Time Machine".

BORN ON THIS DAY:

Jules Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).