I´ll reread some of the books from my childhood.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230365)
Chile
May 8, 2018 12:20pm CST
Yesterday my sister called. She was going through a stage where she was rereading OLD children´s books. She had bought The Bobbsey Twins, the What Katy did series, but when she got to the Cherry Ames books, Amazon would sell them for too much money. And so she called me.
It took a while to get them out and the dust them. But finally I have the first six books for her to reread. And as I want to remember what I liked so much about them when I was 12, I will reread the first books to see if I can finish them
.
Some books are better not touch them after you grow up. It happened to me when I tried to reread Sandokan by Salgari. I could see that the famous italian writer had never been to India
. It also happened to me when I tried to reread Tarzan. I have never read a more racist book. It was a shame
.
Wish me luck, friends. Maybe I should skip the book about Cherry Ames helping out while the US was fighting against Japan.
Have you read again the books from your childhood?
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Some books are better not touch them after you grow up. It happened to me when I tried to reread Sandokan by Salgari. I could see that the famous italian writer had never been to India. It also happened to me when I tried to reread Tarzan. I have never read a more racist book. It was a shame.
Wish me luck, friends. Maybe I should skip the book about Cherry Ames helping out while the US was fighting against Japan.
Have you read again the books from your childhood?15 people like this
20 responses
@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
8 May 18
Not anymore as some of them were donated or thrown away. But it would be interesting to reread them again and feel that nostalgia.
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@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
8 May 18
@marguicha Yes but libraries here are not as intensive as the ones in the US or other countries. 
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
8 May 18
nice idea though there are too many new books to be read for me to go back and reread earlier ones again
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
8 May 18
I have reread several times some of my most beloved books. I cannot imagine a new book better than Le petit prince.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
8 May 18
@marguicha one of my favourites too, beautiful and rather sad
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
8 May 18
I have. As a matter of fact, I reread the entire 'Little House on the Prairie" series almost every year in the fall. Something about the change of seasons does it. I found an old "Through the Green Gate" reading book at the thrift store and enjoyed going through that!
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
9 May 18
@marguicha Those books are magical, aren't they? I am always surprised to see how many adults read them over and over.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
14 May 18
@peavey They are much more than children´s books. They show a moment in the history of the US.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
9 May 18
I reread some of the Little House books every time I´m sick. It makes me feel better!
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@JudyEv (382693)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 May 18
It's interesting to read these after a few decades. I have an Australian one that is pretty racist too and the station owner grinds up aspirin in their flour ration to try to put them to sleep because he fears an attack on the house. The Billagong series were pretty racist too and full of class distinction type stuff.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
9 May 18
I just could not believe in what I was reading when I had the Tarzan books in my hands! I had seen movies but the books were out of print. So when I was a librarian at a school library here, I found them and though it was a treasure. Not so. In the book, black people were treated as if they were apes by the white people. There are some books that should be banned, at least from schools.
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@JudyEv (382693)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 May 18
@marguicha Children are very impressionable even if the books are ancient. I have an Enid Blyton Five-Minute Tale where the golliwog is given an assurance that the fairy will make him white if he behaves. Honestly!!
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
8 May 18
I read some Hardy Boys which I loved as a kid and they were so juvenile amateurish.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
8 May 18
My brother read those but I was not much interested.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
14 May 18
@lnillerman Wewere fond of books when we were children. We still are.
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@aureliah (24687)
• Kenya
11 May 18
@marguicha To use another one, the things that we read that turns out someone was playing with our minds
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
12 May 18
@aureliah The only way you can be sure that no one is playing with your mind is to bury in a desert with not a single soul as a company. And, by no means, reading posts from mylot.
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@snowy22315 (209252)
• United States
9 May 18
I would probably like to do that sometime. When I was working in an ES school and my desk was near a library, I reread one of the LIttle House on the Prarie books.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
9 May 18
The Little House books have a different reading when you are an adult. They are wonderful documents about life at the time of the pioneers.
@allen0187 (59826)
• Philippines
9 May 18
Not that I can remember.
It is interesting to see if you'd still like a book that you read during your childhood days.
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@allen0187 (59826)
• Philippines
12 May 18
@marguicha 
Experience gives you a new perspective on these childhood classics.
Experience gives you a new perspective on these childhood classics.1 person likes this
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
9 May 18
These I´m reading are good, considering that they were written 70 years ago.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
14 May 18
I´m sure that you can even get some of them for free now.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
14 May 18
@id_peace There´s a free place called Gutenberg project where they have all sorts of free books online and to download.
@LeaPea2417 (40061)
• Toccoa, Georgia
8 May 18
@marguicha The Laura Ingalls Wilder book series.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
8 May 18
@LeaPea2417 Those are books I reread every now and then. They are perfect. I loved the books a lot more that the TV "The little house on the Prairie"
@amadeo (111937)
• United States
8 May 18
@marguicha never read any.As you know I was born in the great depression.Books were a rarity then.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
9 May 18
My father took a lot of our books to be donated. My sister and I never forgave him for that. Fortunately, he did not donate Cherry Ames.
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@rakski (156996)
• Philippines
9 May 18
@marguicha oh okay. That is good for you.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
10 Jun 18
Tom Sawyer is a wonderful book. And it can be enjoyed when one has grown up too.
@oindo_edu (87)
• Eldoret, Kenya
8 May 18
They will help you remember your childhood memories
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
8 May 18
When we get old, childhood memories are always there. New memories do not stay though
@oindo_edu (87)
• Eldoret, Kenya
8 May 18
@marguicha with the childhood books they will help you link more with your past
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
8 May 18
I hope you read many of them.It may bring to mind some forgotten childhood memories.
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@db20747 (43419)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
25 May 18
Was just talking about this today!! And rehashing a couple of my favs from junior high!!! Glad I reread them!! They were good then and put the same smile on my face!!!! And I have a better understanding of the story line!!! R U going to read a book for the summer!!! I want to read something with a little more comedy!!! Can't take too much drama this summer!!!!
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@anikoonline (3250)
• Hungary
8 May 18
Rereading these books is a very good idea. I hope that you will enjoy them.
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@things4gotten (476)
• United States
8 May 18
I enjoy occasionally going back and rereading books from my childhood sometimes. Lately I have been thinking about rereading the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander which was one of my favorites as a kid.
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