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 tommy_san tommy_san February 26, 2013 February 26, 2013 at 3:51:43 PM UTC link Permalink

This sentence might not wrong, but I can improve it.

"子どもの頃" sounds much more natural than "少年の頃".
I prefer putting a comma after "頃" to make the entence easier to read.
"推理小説" is a more common word for "detective story".
"読みふけっていた" means "I was absorbed in reading", and I feel that "when I was a boy" is too long a period of time to use this verb. I suggest "はまっていた".
I added a new one: http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2261608

Incidentally, according to 『広辞苑』 (one of the most authoritative dictionary), "読みふける" is an intransitive verb and should be used with "に", and I prefer saying "～に読みふける"; but some other dictionary say you can also say "～を読みふける", and this form seems to be actually more popular these days.

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少年の頃私は探偵小説を読みふけっていた。

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➜ #267961When I was a boy, I was addicted to reading detective stories.

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