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First book

Probably The Famous Five series, or Nancy Drew series when I was in primary school. I loved those books!
 
No single book is responsible, but rather my parents' custom of reading to me before I could read for myself. I was particularly fond of The Wizard of Oz. We must have had 14 or 15 books of the series, but I only remember my mother reading the first one.

On the day I realized that I could read for myself I took The Wizard of Oz off the shelf, opened it and found I could read it. Probably not every word, but enough. I remember looking at the row of books and knowing that I could read them all!
 
Different Seasons by Stephen King

Although the Shawshank Redemption was pretty much the only one I liked.
 
Watership Down by Richard Adams. I was 11 or 12 and my Dad got it out of the senior library for me and I was captivated by it. I read it over probably another 4 or 5 times. Never eaten rabbit pie!:)
 
I always read all though my life. In grade school, a teacher found a book i left behind in my desk and called my parents to tell them that my choice of literature was not appropriate for my age. However, I think what really made me go yeah, this is good, I want to read more was "Catcher in the Rye." grade 10, I read it inside my desk during Media English class.

After that i went into Rule of the Bone and such.
 
Ramona and the Pest, at least that is the first one that I can recall reading. I had read quite a bit by the time that I had purchased the book when I was in grade two.
 
I have read a lot as long as I've known how to read (about 12 years). I remember being 7 years old and really excited to read by myself, when my sister still listened to the bedtime stories read by my Mom. I think I first read children's books with big fonts and then moved to such as Nancy Drew and Sweet Valley High and books by Enid Blyton (can't remember the series' name in English..).
Probably one reason why I have always read so much is that since I was very little I remember going to the library with my Mom. It was also great when I started to pick the books myself, when before my Mom pretty much picked them for me :)
 
i think it was third grade
i know it was'the alexander graham bell story',probably gotten from the school library
a real page turner,i recall being caught and chastised by mom for reading under the covers with a flashlight and told i'd go blind

i became a reader for life

a couple of years later i discovered something else and was told by a priest i'd go blind

i became an atheist for life
 
1st book that I really enjoyed as a kid was: Where the red fern grows by Wilson Rawls. I re-read it about two years ago. Still good as the first time I read it.
 
nnicc said:
i became an atheist for life
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The first book I now remember reading over and over again was The Bagel Baker of Mulliner Lane. I'm not even sure who wrote it, but over the holidays my mom pulled it off the shelf and asked me if I remembered it. She said that she had to hide it from me to get me to go outside and play. I think that was an exaggeration, but, upon her reminder, I do recall reading that book so many times I had it memorized.
 
I was one of those kids in school who hated to read. Its funny when i think of it now, but i put it down to the fact of being forced to read a book i wasn't interested in that turned me off.
I left school when i was in year 10, and i was shopping one day with my mother. We went into the bookstore and i picked up a copy of A Perfect Evil - Alex Kava. that was the first book that i read willingly besides children's books when i was in primary school. My eagerness to get through the book surprised me, i read it in a day and a half, which threw me since reading was something i never thought i would put my time into.

Since then (2002) I've followed Alex Kava's work and many other crime fic authors. So needless to day.... A Perfect Evil was the book that got me into reading.
 
What Inspired My Book Addiction

THE HOBBIT + LORD OF THE RINGS

I was in a very bad place in my life and a friend gave me the set and insisted that I read it ... I did and truly was inspired to fight my way out my personal darkness.

Sometimes friends are really FRIENDS!

GERBAM
 
Well, this is a tough one! I remember reading some story about two characters Frog and Toad when I was in Kindergarten. And the Librarian at my Elementary school simply oozed with a love of books that I drank of deeply, even at that young age.

However, there are other steps which built up this love even more. When I was in 4th grade, one of our local tv stations advertised for kids to write in for a free set of Apple/Scholastic books, which I did all by myself. And the joy when they actually arrived in the mail was very much involved with the joy of books in general. During those days I read a lot of Encyclopedia Brown and The Three Investigators series', and the difficult vocabulary of the latter inspired me to increase my own.

However, I also used to watch a lot of Reading Rainbow, and loved the parts where the different children would give little synopses of varied books, and that just enflamed my booklust even further. So, there really isn't any one episode where my booklust began, but rather a whole youth of episodes that created the Bibliophile I am today.
 
I think for me it was Laura Ingalls Wilder (I think I only had one) or the Nancy Drew books (I had quite a few of those).
 
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