Same here. Although I actually loved the stories. Still do in fact. It is pretty dark at times for a teen series, especially in the final books.

Other than that, my favorite series of all time is the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon, Eldest, Brisngr, Inheritance)

Hitting refresh and then realizing that the post never went through really svcks...

I'll do this again, but shorter:

I loved the Motorcycle Ralph books; Jerry Spinelli stuff (Maniac McGee), and Paul Jennings (Australian author - just wrote bat [censored] crazy stories).

Dinosaur books in the early 1970s when I was liftle. I could name every major dinosaur!

When I was about 10 or so in the late 70s I started reading a series of Star Trek novels. I forget the authors name. He was famous for writing a lot of novels based on Star Trek before 1980.


Edit:.Practicing my Googlefu, I tracked the novels down. The author was Alan Dean Foster.

I spent a crazy amount of time in the school library while the other kids would run out and play with balls during the breaks or whatever. Great place. The first school librarian I had was a very helpful and lovely lady which certainly helped too.

One of my very first books was Little Virgil by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Lund_Kirkegaard which I got when I was 7 and I still enjoy it very much.

I remember reading some of those when I was younger as well. Sure wish I still had some of them, I liked them, but being a Star Trek junkie and all...

I used to read books about ghosts, which would make me scared for days yet for some reason I still read them. I also had a book about tanks which I loved and some book about mysterious disappearances (mostly to do with the Bermuda Triangle) which I found fascinating, but looking back it was mostly [censored]. The first fiction books I read were Andy McNab's Boy Soldier series which I loved. Of course I also had Guinness World Records books. I barely read books at all anymore though which is a shame.