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First book

pangolin

pangolin

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I'm just interested...
What was the first book that began your interest in reading? Not necessarily the first book you read or remember reading, but the one book, if there is one, that truly made you into a book addict.

Mine was Elvenbane by Mercedes Lackey, though it might sound too inspiring but it was the first book I read on my own and sparked my interest in fantasy. It was a book I traded with my brother's friend.
Thanks
 
Mine was a kid's version of Peter Pan. What I loved most about it were the beautiful little pictures along the bottom of the page with writing, opposite the main art. It was the first book I learned to read to myself, mainly because my mother got tired of reading it over and over and over!

I remember the first "adult" book I read, but try as I might, I can't recall the first that really touched me. I'll post back when I do!
 
I remember! It was Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. I read it over and over again over about 3 or 4 years. I wanted so much to live on my own island.
 
I can't remember that book whatever it was that I read 20-odd years ago. Black Pearl maybe? I don't know.
 
Mine has to be "Jeremy Thatcher the Dragon Hatcher" that was the book that got me into reading for fun instead of for knowledge which i thing i read in first or second grade when i decided to see what all the novel hype was about.
 
It is a toss-up for me..either The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder or a biography series called The Childhood of Famous Americans. In that series, I was particularly drawn to Louisa May Alcott. Then there was Indian Captive by Lois Lenski.. I know I read it 6 times before I got out of elementary school.
 
The main one was Tales by Edgar Allen Poe. More specifically, The Masque of the Red Death. The other books that helped to spark my interest further was the Chronicles of Narnia series. Though I remember reading several books prior to these, they were the ones that truly turned me into an avid reader.
 
Umm. I've enjoyed reading since I was a child, but I was never a voracious reader, and I had a phase after college, when I'd come close to having some sort of breakdown, when I couldn't read a book; I'd get a few pages in but then no further. The first books that got me back on the reading road after that were Stephen King novels.

But more recently, in terms of a development in my reading habits, then I'd have to say something like The Tin Drum by Günter Grass and Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. These were certainly amongst the books that started me thinking differently about literature, about its possibilities and powers.

Since then, I've re-read a number of books from my youth (particularly classic works that I was introduced to at school). I've seen them all differently in light of this 'development'.
 
No idea, but it was probably an Enid Blyton when I was eight. Not to say I never read before then. The first one I consciously remember picking for myself (from the school library) and devouring of an evening was, I think, called The Wof (I'd have been, what, five?) and from there it was on to the Vlad The Drac series.
 
Ahhhhhh, the memories

One of my earliest favorites was a book about the Denver Broncos football team. I absolutely loved that book, I read it from cover to cover feverishly. I can still remember the picture of Lyle Alzado and the other members of the "orange crush" defense.:D The number one book every year when I was in elementary school was 13 ways to sink a sub. Sadly, I didn't enjoy it as much, it had nothing to do with the tactics used to destroy an underwater vessel.
 
Anne Rice's vampire series were the first books I read without having too when I was 19 or 20.

Just read the Elvenbane series a few months ago :).
 
This a good question. I remember reading a lot of Nancy Drew and Sweet Vally High, as well as Christopher Pike and R.L Stine when I got older. I don't think there was ever really a point in my life that I wasn't reading. I remember when I was in the younger grades always getting books out of the library. If only I could remember which book it was exactly that sparked my love of it.
 
My parents always bought me children's books and read them to me before I learned how to... If I had to pick one I guess it would a book from a portuguese series called Uma Aventura (An Adventure). I got for my 7th or 8th birthday and when I started it I just couldn't put it aside. Obviously I bought all the other books of the series in the next years and only stopped reading them when I was 14 or 15.
 
As I dig back in the fizzled neurons of my past...

I read a lot of books about insects when I was very young... but what really catapulted me to reading as a teen was "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut (though I read it years after it was released). I don't know what I'd think now, but I know he didn't consider it one of his best. On the non-fiction side, Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" started me down the philosophy path.

But "Breakfast of Champions" made me want to read more.
 
If it wasn't a VC Andrews that I just "picked up" out of nowhere, then it was Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price...both painted places in my mind and I knew I wanted more afterwards.
 
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