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Question: Do you remember the book that turned you into a reader? I don't mean the first book you ever read, but the one that made you go "I love this" and you just kept on reading afterwards?
For me it was when I was eleven and I was gifted a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, which was for the longest time my go to for "favorite book" and still likely would be on my top ten.
— Apr 14, 2022 05:57PM
For me it was when I was eleven and I was gifted a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, which was for the longest time my go to for "favorite book" and still likely would be on my top ten.
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Apr 14, 2022 06:16PM
Strangely enough, the Bible.
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For me it wasn’t really a book that I remember, but more the feeling of going to the library and getting to discover a new book. I really loved the Sweet Valley Kids series and The Sleepover Club or something like that. And it really helped me want to devour as many books as I could
My aunties kept buying Little Golden books in the US and sending them to us in the Philippines. I enjoyed seeing my collection grow and reading them over and over.
Glad to see I'm not the only one asking questions about books and readings. Nice! I was four and a half and it was the afternoon of the first day in school. I read all the Janet and John's in the morning and the teacher had only two other books in the classroom, The Swiss Family Robinson and Treasure Island. I don't remember which I read first, but that was it... I loved reading.
I think mine were Nancy Drew. In elementary school, I used to check out an armful at a time. My grandfather also bought me these little paperbacks called Illustrated Classics. They were abridged versions of Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen, everything really. I still have them!
No joke Dr Suess planted the seed if books when I was 2. Also the Sweet Valley High and Babysitter’s Club books as a young child. That plus my love of the library and my growing interest in RL Stine type horror for youths. As well as my dad’s collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs, EE Doc Smith and others. Books have always been my constant companions
An excellent question, and such a difficult one. I think The Fairy Tales of Wilhelm Hauff were the ones that I kept rereading every few months. I loved their unique blend of realism and fantasy.I've read a whole host of "classic" fairy tales, but there was just something different about the creepy feel of Hauff's stories. They felt like they could even happen to me, if I wasn't careful. I must've re-read them dozens of times. To the point that the book started falling apart. And it's was a hard-cover edition :P
To this day, I don't understand how none of my friends seem to have heard of these stories.
