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What’s the first book you remember loving? (literature.cafe)

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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

As a child my favorite books(and thus the first ones I remember loving) were:
Harold and his Purple Crayon
The Monster at the End of the Book
and The Giving Tree (which admittedly has a much different meaning to me now)

The first “grown up” book I remember reading and loving (at ~11) was Watchers by Dean R. Koontz

My favorite books as an adult are:
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
and The Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, I was going to say the Monster at the End of this Book too! Such a brilliant bit of writing for kids, Grover's expressions are priceless 😁