What did you read when you were younger?

Rachel_Scope
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I was thinking about the good old days when I used to buy a magazine and put the posters up on my wall and sing along to the chart hits with my newly acquired lyrics. I was a big fan on Smash Hits. I used to love it when they gave out freebies such as a cardboard Peter Andre mask 😂

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Did you read magazines?

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  • egiste2r
    egiste2r Posts: 287 Connected

    What did you read when you were younger?... So you consider yourself not young now?

    I don't think so about myself.

    You can envy me!

    😁

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 5,417 Scope online community team

    I still consider myself somewhat young yes!

  • kreacher
    kreacher Community Member Posts: 702 Empowering

    i used to get a magazine called fast forward

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 5,417 Scope online community team

    Was it this @kreacher? I can't believe how young Ant and Dec look!

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  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 4,299 Championing

    Janet and John books

  • kreacher
    kreacher Community Member Posts: 702 Empowering
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    yes and i loved byker grove

  • Dynamisante
    Dynamisante Community Member Posts: 244 Contributor

    Jackie,

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    oh my lord 😂

  • Rag_793
    Rag_793 Community Member Posts: 841 Empowering
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    three old things that I used to read as a kid, alongside this I also read - Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Hardy Boys, Johnny and The Bomb, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory etc but I also read books such as Bravo Two Zero, Grapes of Wrath and other more grown up books that were above my age group.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,170 Championing
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  • Dynamisante
    Dynamisante Community Member Posts: 244 Contributor
    edited October 25

    @ChrisR777 hahaha, we all had one of those annuals at Christmas love ❤️ it, and the Beano and Dandy.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,170 Championing
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    I have a 1958 Beezer Book, that was the second annual.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 4,299 Championing

    A comic called bunty and tracey

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 6,234 Scope online community team

    I used to enjoy this magazine for the posters!

    A vibrant magazine cover titled "Girl Talk" features Selena Gomez center stage wearing a white graphic tee and a denim vest. The cover is packed with bright text and various inserts, including a picture of Taylor Swift with the headline "12 Funniest Celeb Cringes!", several fashion items like a floral dress and an "NYC" top, a small image of three girls in a blue inflatable pool, and a young girl holding a summer smoothie at the bottom
  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,819 Scope online community team

    Me too @Mary_Scope!

    Then I graduated to Mizz magazine when I was a bit older, especially if it came with a free gift:

    Miss Magazine cover from 00s aimed at young teen girls. Content includes 'rate your best mate', 'real life stories' and 'meet S club 7'

    I guarantee I would have entered that competition to meet S Club 7 😄

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,456 Championing
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    I was a Jackie girl after Bunty @Amberpearl. I think there was Mandy too but Jackie was my fave.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Community Member Posts: 1,681 Championing

    I enjoyed car magazines.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,170 Championing

    We used to find magazines in the bushes, were they hiding them from their wives? 🤣

  • JW77
    JW77 Community Member Posts: 274 Empowering

    Beano for sure..
    I grew up with the Moomins, Roald Dahl, Arthur Ransom, Peanuts,
    Used to be very into computer magazines as well. Sci fi books, there was a Star Trek novel series that came out at WH Smiths (prob worth a bit if I kept them) Star Trek Adventures (1970–1981)

    Novels based on The Original Series.[a] Bantam never applied an official series name to the novels, instead marketing each volume as a new or original "Star Trek Adventure"

    I was really into cooking as well & got one of those cooking magazines where you filll up folders each week.

    In more 'recent years' I did of course read every Harry Potter & still re read read Pratchett. - I just wish he was still around writing - his books still have so much depth & humour

  • Darking
    Darking Community Member Posts: 14 Connected
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    I never read comics as a child just Narnia The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. At the library I got a lot of other books to read. Later on Terry Pratchet

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,170 Championing
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    I first read The Lord of the Rings aged 12, The Hobbit around the same time, The Silmarillion a couple of years later.

    I suppose you read The Cronicles of Prydain? I must admit, I have even re-read them as an adult, the same with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen trilogy. I was pretty impressed with Boneland, the final book, written 50 years later.

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