What Was Your First read, that made you 'A Reader'

[Sally]

I found a copy of Gone with the Wind on my grandmother's bookshelf when I was about 13. I consumed it and was hooked. This was before the movie. I just was enthralled with the story.

[Jennifer]

Jackie wrote: "The first actual book I read, without having to be forced, was Virginia Andrew's Flowers in the Attic. After that I never looked back.
It's funny actually, now I don't even really enjoy Virginia An..."

Me to! I read it in 6th grade recomended by my english teacher and after that I was always reading a VC Andrews book until I wanted something more adult.

[Nicolas]

Well, mine wasn't a book but an ad about The Phantom of the Opera in the newspaper made me a reader back when I was 4. I remember the reading classes at school that were so boring because I knew how to read already. After the torture of reading books for school (that's right I hated to read back then because they forced us to read) I didn't read almost anything for 6 years (there were only "three comrades" and "the prince by Machiavelli"). The book that got me into being a reading junkie was The Lost Army by Manfredi and from there I haven't stopped.

[Cheryl]

It's funny, I hated to read as a kid. We had a very small library so there was not much to pick from. As a teen I picked up a romance novel at a sale by Kathleen Woodwiss(?). That was the book that got me hooked on reading.

[Cheryl]

I had to go look it up. Kathleen Woodiwiss - The Flower and the Flame

[[deleted user]]

Like many Brits before (and after?) me, it was Enid Blyton (Famous Five, Secret 7, Adventure series......)

[Dorottya]

There were some I really liked as a teen growing up, but I don't remember the order I read them in. I really loved Ros Asquith's Teenage Worrier books, Pride and Prejudice and a bunch of older Hungarian teen books.

[Beatrix]

I honestly hated reading as a kid, until I read Harry Potter, and it sort of took off from there. :D

[Dawn]

I adored reading from the time I learned how. Among my favorites, that just fueled the fire, would be The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek, A Wrinkle in Time, and most importantly, The Wind in the Willows. Before these, I had a hard time at the public library because they didn't want a 7-year-old to take out anything that had more than about 15 or 20 pages..... They did encourage me to read, but only stuff from the children's library. This was in 1962. Things have certainly changed since then.

[Thea]

I truly hated to read until I was In middle school and then I picked up aRL Stine book...then I was a reader but the book the I know started it all for me was Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews. I think I was in seventh grade and to this day I love that book and the rest of the series, I've read it a number of times.

[Humera]

The hunger games and Harry potter trilogy, and then in late years my teacher in school would lend me books and give me books to read. Then I thought I go library to see what else I want to read, and spent a lot of time there.

[Michelle]

For me it was R.L Stine's "Goosebumps" and Barabara Park's "Junie B. Jones" I remember wanting to read them all back when I was in third grade and that's how I became a reader. c:

[Soul, the Book Keeper]

It is the different ways that we all get hooked that inspires me to read that much more.. :p sounds confusing but that's how i feel..

And that's why I never discourage anyone when they come upto me to ask about my 2cents on latest top of the charts book... like Hunger games / 50 shades of Gray were asked for n number of times...

I encourage them to read it and once they are done I just say; that was tip of the iceberg... take the red pill and explore this Matrix.. ;)

[Sofia]

It definitely was 'Hush,Hush' by Becca Fitzpatrick. I had ahuge obsession with it and I remember re-reading it like 3-4 times because I was so in love with Patch and Nora. I read the 4 books in 2 months and I made my friends read it too. Obviously it was a really simple book, easy reading and kind of predictable with cute and corny quotes that madeyou fall in love with it so fast. I'll probably re read it again so I can remember why I started getting so obsessed with books.

[Soul, the Book Keeper]

Sofia wrote: "It definitely was 'Hush,Hush' by Becca Fitzpatrick.."

I do remember pleading I had to do with my book retail shop owner for getting me a copy of 'Hush-Hush' and persuading him that it's gonna be epic in sales.. n stuff... just because I had seen it's Cover image! :p

:)

[[deleted user]]

was the book that really turned me into a reader.

[Ariana]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was definitely the book that turned me into a reader. I am very thankful for that.

[Fera]

I don't exactly remember what, but this one was part of my first read looong time ago :)


But the first book that turned me into an English (e)book reader was this one! XD

[[deleted user]]

Isn't that a sex book, Fera?

[Fera]

@Aaron: ehh what? 'Captivate'? No! it's a book about faerie if I remembered correctly, yes.. it's YA urban fantasy. Although now that you mentioned it, the title and the series name seemed intriguing enough to look like an adult book .__.

[[deleted user]]

My sister read it and said it was full of sex. Must be a different book by the same title. My bad. Here's a song to cheer you up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oKPYe...

[Fera]

@Aaron: Aha, thanks for the song :D Honestly I was a bit shocked back then, but what if it turned out to be what you expected before? :p

[[deleted user]]

Welcome! I wasn't sure what I would have done. You're allowed to read what you want, sex or no sex. :)

[Fera]

Okay, alright then :) happy reading!

[[deleted user]]

Thanks! Same to you.:)

[Vivalee]

oh my first book was it "les trois filles du docteur march" and after it was
i was seven or eight years :)

[Shelby]

Mine was and .

[Kate]

when I was about 8 I loved Nancy Drew :) I also remember reading over and over Charlotte's Web, The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, The Folk of The Faraway Tree, The Wishing Chair Again and Up The Faraway Tree but then all of a sudden I grew up and read Gone with the Wind. I've never looked back!
I was a child in the 70's so I wonder how this compares to others? children/teenagers are so lucky now with the amazing books available to them - there was no John Green in the 70's! Although we did have Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume rocked!

[random name]

The first book that made me a reader was most likely Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus by Barbara Park. I read that book when I was just starting first grade, and I finished the series by the end of second grade.

[Maggie the Muskoka Library Mouse]

White Fang by Jack London

[Emily]

Harry Potter

[Mariam]

Oliver Twist

[Chloe]

From what I remember as a child, I was always reading books. I have always found it to relax me and I can find my true state of mind. Although, as I transitioned into secondary school, I never read quite as often, if at all. It was only when I started my GCSE'S and my English teacher suggested that everyone read to improve on their literature skills that I started to read again. If I were to be honest, there has never been a book which triggered me to start reading and become a so called "bookworm". It has always been a passion of mine.

[Steph]

Harry Potter

[Deepak]

Most Singaporeans would have heard of this fantasy series:Beast Quest. It was the first book that ever gripped me, and made me feel like I was embarking on an actual adventure through the beautiful worlds of the series.

[Lindsey]

I would say it was Virginia Andrews for me too, as a teenager. Not so keen on them as an adult but that’s what got me reading a lot.