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What was the first books you read to really create a love of reading

#21 caladanbrood

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 06:10 PM

The Minpins!! Awesome stuff

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 07:46 PM

Hatchet, Indian in the Cupboard, HObbit/LoTR, Choose your own adventure, Phantom Tollbooth, Watership Down, to name a few.

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 07:50 PM

caladanbrood;303410 said:

The Minpins!! Awesome stuff

I was just about to say that! I couldn't rmember the name of the book I had read, so I was googling it, and when I got back to this page you beat me. I read the Gammage Cup, loved it as a kid. Was there a whole series? That was the only one i read.

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:03 PM

Raymond Luxury Yacht;303476 said:

Brood didn't beat you to it. I did

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:09 PM

^^^^ What stupid said;)

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:17 PM

Oh yeah. I need to pay closer attention.

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 04:14 AM

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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, THE HOBBIT (yes, me too) and CALL OF THE WILD.

The Prydain Chronicles and The Dark is Rising series (ignore the movie, it never happened) followed shortly after, all interspersed with assorted greek and norse mythology books.

- Abyss, did love those wacky tales of a Hobbit and his dog on the island of monsters...

ahhh yes... The Hobbit... very good book..

The Dark is rising was awesome for a kid, just serious enough to make you feel not like a kid but light enough to not give you nightmares.

@Abyss

did you ever read any of Susan Coopers other books... I tried the Bogart... and while it wasnt terrible it was deff. more kidish then DIR sequence.

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 08:18 AM

Mr. Poppers Penguins. I'm going quite young here, but that's when I started to read all the time.

Sport was a great book, written by the same author as Harriet the Spy.

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 09:00 AM

Really can't remember, as I have loved reading since I was very little. However, one of the big points was Kringla Heimsin when I was 10. Also various Robin Hood books, Davy Crockett, Timemachine and so on.

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 09:07 AM

and Morgan Kane!!

..I think you'd have to be Norwegian though

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 09:08 AM

First book that really got me into reading was Jurassic Park, by Micheal Chrichton.
I realised at that time that books are indeed much more descriptive and enjoyable.

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 09:12 AM

I can't recall the first book I read, because I've started reading when I was 6 or 7 years old. But I can tell you where the love for my favorite genres comes from. First books that got me in their genre are:
Fantasy: "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
SF: "The Overlords of War" by Gerard Klein
Horror: "Salem's Lot" by Stephen King.
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Posted 09 May 2008 - 03:30 PM

I kind of liked reading when I was younger, but in fifth grade I had a teacher who introduced John Bellairs mysteries and Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series. After I devoured all the books by both authors, he recommended I read the Hobbit and that was that.

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Posted 10 May 2008 - 03:32 AM

When i was a kid i accompanied my mother to the library (she was after some cooking books or something boring like that) and stumbled across a version of le morte dArthur. That was the first book i remember reading that really captured my imagination and interest.

Looking back on it, i don't know how i managed to get into that at such a young age. It must have been one of the contemporary translations.

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Posted 10 May 2008 - 05:34 AM

I remember reading "The Stand" by Stephen King at a young age. That book really freaked me out. That and it was like 2,000 pages in paperback

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Posted 10 May 2008 - 06:02 AM

I was Stephen King too, mine was "Firestarter."

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Posted 10 May 2008 - 06:08 AM

I read It when I was about 10 or 11. Freaked me right out.

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Posted 10 May 2008 - 06:09 AM

Another book, and you guys will probably ream me for it, was Pride and Prejudice. I really love that book.

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Posted 10 May 2008 - 12:26 PM

It was probably Eddings's Belgariad and Enid Blyton's The Five.

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Posted 10 May 2008 - 03:01 PM

I always loved reading, but in fifth grade I read Lord of the Rings--the series taught me that reading is the greatest of all pleasures (that OTHER pleasure, let's face it, is a bit too transitory. I must be getting old).

I must have read the series a dozen times. Funny how a re-read years later revealed how poor a writer Tolkien really is, especially when he resorts to fantasy-epic speak.