At what age did u start reading? and what was your first book?

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King Fang wrote: "Numey♥{Gifted~Cats*Books}☮ wrote: "I think I started reading at 5, all those thin picture books and comics....

Then when I was 8 years old I started reading short books like Goosebumps and Disney...."

You still are!

[Ahtims]

continuing the "sibling rivalry" here ? :P

[Yunoth]

from feb 2012(5 months before), my first book was Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. so far read 10 books

[Kriti]

14
six graves to munich

[Rajuda]

I was 9, and the book was 'Tenali Raman' stories. I am sure I will get the same joy out of reading it even today.

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Smitha wrote: "continuing the "sibling rivalry" here ? :P"

Yeah, I guess but don't worry, we are going to agree on a 'Truce' :)

[Karan]

I actually started very early... I remember reading those simple Ladybird books when I was around 3 or 4 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Puss'n'boots, Thumbelina, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc. My first "real" books were The Magician's Nephew by C.S Lewis (prequel to the Chronicles of Narnia) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when I was 7... still love both series!

[Ahtims]

Harry Potter at 7! I was preening on the fact that my son at 8 would be the youngest HP reader.
Kudos to you Karan.

[Achuthan]

Well I started reading somewhat late. I read a lot of Blyton's book when I was around 12. Then I didn't read much for about 5 years and started again when I was about 17. The author who got me going was Coelho

[Sibikaran]

i guess i am the only person to start reading at the age of 22.. All the persons over here are good readers than me.. my first novel was harry potter... but now i feel that i have wasted my childhood without reading any novels:-(

[Yunoth]

Sibikaran wrote: "i guess i am the only person to start reading at the age of 22.. All the persons over here are good readers than me.. my first novel was harry potter... but now i feel that i have wasted my childho..."

sibi i started at 24 oly.

[Prasan]

I guess i started of with Noddy (My fav ;-))tinkel (another fav of mine),Archies ,Tintin & Asterix . These are to name a few. Actually i was not a real reader if i can consider in comparison with my friends.It so happen i got books as gifts. Hence some how pushed myself to read. That way got into the habit of reading novels.Tho this happened pretty late may be when i was 19 or so. Now i guess i try to read as much as possible as time permits. I should also admit there were times when i have not read a single book for a year or so.Ken Follet who i discovered of late has got me hooked again i just love the way he narrates a story............

[Ahtims]

Hi Sibikaran and Yunoth - my motto is 'better late than never' :D

[Achuthan]

Smitha wrote: "Hi Sibikaran and Yunoth - my motto is 'better late than never' :D"

Agree totally with you :)

The fact that a person has started reading is what counts, not the age when one started reading.

[Inigo]

oliver twist when i was 9. Actually the whole class had to read it. They even made us watch the movie and asked us to note down the differences.

[Bhargav]

9,enid blyton,famous five!!

[Ahtims]

Inigo wrote: "oliver twist when i was 9. Actually the whole class had to read it. They even made us watch the movie and asked us to note down the differences."

my nine year old son has just completed Oliver Twist, Hounds of Baskervilles and Gulliver's travels (all Indiana abridged classics for children) and am proud of him

[King☚☠☛ℱα₪ℊ ☄ ℒïካ₭ïᾔ ℘αℜⓀ ♬]

@Smitha, hasn't your son joined GR? I mean, he could keep track of his books ^^

[Ahtims]

he has, but nowadays he is busy with school and homework, and whatever time available on computer he prefers to play games.

[King☚☠☛ℱα₪ℊ ☄ ℒïካ₭ïᾔ ℘αℜⓀ ♬]

Thats good, more kids should start reading...

[Shriya]

Since childhood, Bindi Babes collection, Jacqueline Wilson, No Harry Potter! Recently matured into a proper book worm.

[Gurdeesh]

Started very late with Noddy at 8.then Short story version of Shakespeares plays.Archies comics at 15.then mills n boons and no looking back

[Srishti]

Haha...nice thread...hmmm...i think it was Secret Seven by Enid Blyton...must have been 7 then :D

[Ritu]

6 or 7 and I think I was hooked to Cinderella as I read it all the time ( it had really pretty pics :D ) well then I got into serious reading from when I was 12 and I started with harry potter series

[Umang]

DOn't even remember when.. bt yeah would be in class 4th-5th when i had my hands over comics... a proper book? secret 7, famous 5, great expectations arnd 9-10th class.

[Shreya]

I just remember the first book I had in my hands was Hardy Boys. I so much loved them !!! But before that I had read 'Julius Caesar', an abridged version ... So u can guess how versatile I had been :P:P:P

[Zana!!! Wings of Pages♥]

I started reading at the age of 10 and the first book was the Little Mermaid ♥

[Sandeep]

I read 'my' first book probably @ 17...it was 'Gaban' by Premchand.

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Shyam wrote: "I started reading at age nine in my vernacular, after that Hindi which I learned because there were no books in my spoken language and I loved Hindi noveists and poets. Now I read only English book..."

Thank you Shyam for admiring our reading skills :)

[Adithyan]

I started reading when I was 11. my first book was "the three musketeers" followed by "David copperfield"...

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Adithyan wrote: "I started reading when I was 11. my first book was "the three musketeers" followed by "David copperfield"..."

David Copperfield? :\ I wonder how your experience with that book was...

[Adithyan]

I really liked it at that age. Charles Dickens starts off sadly and ends on a happy note. So as a kid, I was happy at the end :)

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Adithyan wrote: "I really liked it at that age. Charles Dickens starts off sadly and ends on a happy note. So as a kid, I was happy at the end :)"

I was happy it ended. :) A long book and I would have never read it if not for it being my English review project...

[Rupesh]

Started reading "English" books at the age of 19 years and "Five Point Someone" was the first book.

[Adithyan]

@Numey :) In fact it made me read Oliver Twist with more interest in my English subject :),Not a big fan of Charles Dickens these days though.

[Gayatri]

I started reading at the age of 15. My first book was You can win by Shiv Khera

[Amit]

I can't recollect when I started reading but surely sometime in college and it started with alister Maclean series "night without an end" and a lot of other ones. Then was dale Carnegie series and then I left reading !! Untill "alchemist" happened, and then I started off on paulo cohelo series and before I realised I was writing too! That's what a book like alchemist can do to you. Books can change life, if not they atleast end up changing the way you look at it..

[Phani]

The first book I remember reading at the age of 11 is Vishakantam which is in Telugu. Before that I remember some other stories but can't remember their names. First novel for me in English is Stars Shine Down by Sidney Sheldon.

[harshini]

When I was 4 I think I read short chapter series like Dinosaurs Before Dark

[Sandeep]

I started my first novel at 20, it was 'Split Second' by David Baldacci..

[Gatha]

I started reading when I was about 4,5 years old,I don't remember which books though.

[Shilpa]

I remember borrowing english books from other grade kids during my primary school days. I think a full book must be Ponniyin Selvan, when I was around 11.

[Craig]

I started reading somewhere in my pre-teens. The first book I remember reading was The Hobbit and subsequently, The Lord of the Rings. I have little love for my brother, but it was he who bought me those books one Christmas and for that at least I should be grateful to him.

[Rahul Nath]

Used to read Aesop's Fables when I was 4-5 years old, but really got started with novels on my 9th birthday. Someone gifted me "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and from there I picked one book after the other.

[Pritam]

I started reading at the very age, when I had just learned to read! And have grown the appetite for reading that my parents couldn't fulfill most of the time..so I devised a trick, to write myself :)
I still remember the first story I wrote in which I have miss-spelled the joint words, as I still didn't know how to write such words!

[Nithin]

I don't know when I started reading.
but the only book I read in my childhood was bible :)

[Vishal]

I started reading when I was 4 or 5, don't remember the exact first book I read, but I loved reading Aesop's fables and Panchtantra over and over in that age.

[Chandrapal]

From the age of 8. Panchtantra !

[Millo]

9 Yrs old. Little Women.

[Shalini]

i dont really remember which one i read first or when i did but i started reading in my school library. The first book was probably a classic or a childrens' thriller. Something like the famous five.