When I was a kid I didn't read books. Books were boring things my teacher asked us to read, usually some socio-realistic depiction of life in Copenhagen or a historical fiction about some turd farmer in the 1800s
I read comic books instead. I read anything I could find at the Library. Lucky Luke, Asterix, Garfield, Calvin and Hobs, Tin Tin, Spirou & Fantasio, Footrot Flats, etc. All the weird stuff that came out of Europe in the 70s and 80s.
Later around age ten I started reading and collecting Marvel comics (Not DC, they suck). In the late 90s I'd managed to collect pretty much every Marvel Comic that had been published in Danish between the late 60s and 90s.
That created an interest in reading books because a lot of good comic stories reference older literature that was formative for their authors.
I remember in my teens reading all the Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Tom Clancy and other stuff I could find. Mixed with what ever was popular in pop culture. I remember reading things like American Psycho at the age of 17 and being completely freaked out by this disgusting but quite fascinating book. Anne Rice' Interview with a Vampire was awesome. I read Dan Simmons first two Hyperion books around 1999 I think and they were mind-blowing. There was some Danish stuff that doesn't matter in this context.
It was only when I was in my early 20s and read Lord of the Rings, that I became aware of the Fantasy And Sci-fi section in the library.
This post has been edited by Incredible Aptorian: 16 November 2020 - 04:19 AM