• Question: What types of book did you read as a child/teenager?

    Asked by obitom10 to Alison, Hannah, Jonny, MarthaNari, Paul on 19 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Paul Brack

      Paul Brack answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Horrible Histories/Geography/Science and loads of history books about Russia.

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      Martha Havenith answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      As a kid I really liked Astrid Lindgren, and I loved the Harry Potter series as a teenager. Weirdly, between 18 and 20 I also had a crazy Shakespeare phase. I thought the language sounded awesome so I learned a lot of his poems by heart.

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      Alison Whitaker answered on 21 Jun 2015:

      As a child I read lots of comic books (like Tintin). I loved reading. I read lots of books by Enid Blyton, Judy Blume, Paula Danziger, CS Lewis, Roald Dahl, and probably lots more I can’t remember. As a teenager I didn’t read as much, except all the ones you have to do for school like Shakespeare, and some of the American classics. I read lots again now though. 🙂

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      Jonny Brooks-Bartlett answered on 25 Jun 2015:

      I’ve got to admit that as a child I didn’t (voluntarily) read books because I was more interested in computer games.
      The books I had to read for school were The Hobbit and Lord of the Flies (LOTF). I really enjoyed LOTF.

      Now I read lots of popular maths books. That doesn’t mean they are popular in the sense that everyone reads them but it means they are meant for the general public. They tells maths stories rather than just being full of equations. Ian Stewart is my favourite non-fiction writer. Otherwise I also like to read forensic thriller books. Karen Slaughter is my favourite fiction book writer.

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