Well, when I was younger I seldom read books, however when my mom bought me the whole series of sweet valley high/ jr. high at the age of 10, I started reading them like mad. Afterwards, I started to beg my parents to buy me similar books to them. However, there were other books that inspire me to read different genre such as reading The Wooing of Beppo since the 8th grade allowed me to appreciate Caribbean writers more and Scary Stories to tell in the dark by Alvin Schwartz help me appreciate folklore tales. My brothers would read this story to us when we were extremely young to scare us (it always did) and after a while I started reading the book on my own.

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Screams from the haters, got a nice ring to it. I guess every superhero need her theme music...

Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon. How can a horror writer create such a delightful, engrossing, and incredibly funny fantasy-adventure? Really opened my eyes to the range of the author, which in turn opened my eyes to several other fantastic authors of various genres.

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The book that got me reading was probably the Sherlock Holmes series. Thanks to the literature lessons at school I had the misconception that literature consisted of poetry, which had no entertaining value to me, kids story's, that had lost it's value at that age, and novels which were boring recounting's of some kind of events. Then when I was in 7th grade I chanced upon Holmes and got addicted to mystery and detective stories.

Some time later I found the Sword of truth series and found that I really like fantasy adventure type stories.

Not sure I can say exactly but it would have to be The Shapeshifter series by Ali Sparkes.

It was fab. I still love reading it now, over and over. Brilliant work - had everything I was looking for in a supernatural series. Guy awakens to a myserious power, guy gets taken to special facility where there are others like him. Great adventures ensue. Power becomes more awesome.

At that time I got into a habit of buying a book or two a week. Was glorious.
After that it was manga.

One of these days I hope people will be picking my books off the shelves...

don't laugh. it was Harry Potter. I've never read books before, maybe one or two a year(!) but after I finished all HP books in two weeks I started reading more. I'm sure any good book would do that time, I just happened to read the bad ones.

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I've forgotten the tittle of the books because i read it in my native language rather than english.
but it is an english adaptation.. the main characs is julian, anne, and some more. the author is enid blyton (which i thought was a man lol)...
but now i've move on from that and targets on a more mature novels..
the first english novel i've read is 'the house of hostile women' and i have to admit, i love the male lead soooo much... he's sexyyy... lmAO

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i think i was around 13 years old, if i remember correctly, when my love for books began

my mom always reads those thick books so captivating, absorbing & i couldn't stop wondering why the heck is she reading them all the time so one day i just took one of them, it was "Kat Martin - Silk & Steel", and i couldn't stop reading it myself then

it was a historical romance set in 18th or so century ya know dukes, England, nobles etc & since that day i've been lost in the world of books, you're not gonna get me out, never

thou it wasn't exactly the appropriate um reading material for 13 year old i guess but since then i love books, especially the thick ones o yeah, my favorites are of course historical romances cant get enough of them, fantasy, duh who doesn't, supernatural, adventures, detective novels, psychological etc all kinds of stuff but not biographies, don't really like those unless it's like a book based on real events, then yes

and of course around the same time i found the real world of manga, not gonna get me out of there either


ah, and as for when reading it's like i'm actually there or like i'm watching a movie thou i do remember the actual words aswell, i can actually re-tell the whole book by heart after having read it just once, i've got a good memory moreover a photographic memory so it's like seeing in real life

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I think it was the second Redwall book I read, and the one that really got me into reading. I reread it so many times that it fell apart and had to buy a new one. Naturally, by that time, it had spurred me to buy most of the available Redwall books.

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It was a book with fairy tales from my country big one with big letters and bigger pictures....I still remember some of the stories

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So, I have a love-hate relationship with novels. I have several learning disabilities including 2 different types of dyslexia, so I couldn't read anything at all until 3rd grade. It was very frustrating, because I liked stories but couldn't read them myself. Once I finally made sense of the alphabet, I would spend all my time at the library. The first book I ever read by myself was Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. It made me cry, and I was fascinated by how much it moved me.

Then I read The Giver.



I love that book too, actually all three of the books The Giver, Gathering Blue, and The Messenger by Lois Lowry were very influential to me.

Oh! And one last series to which I must pay tribute: A Wrinkle in Time and the succeeding novels by Madeleine L'Engle

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famous five by any chance?

and to commit sth to the thread...I can't remember some book tha made me love reading and I don't think it was one in particular. some day when I was arouond ten or eleven I just started reading less comics and more books.

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The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. I've lost my copy though...

There's nothing wrong with Harry Potter. 500 million copies doesn't lie. The people who say they're bad books are butthurt because the series defies their elitist paradigm that claims all good books must be literary masterpieces. It is actually quite the opposite. The best books are books that anyone can pick up and read. They touch the most people, and don't spoil the fun by bogging down the reader with an over-saturation of literary devices.


As for me, I don't know what the first book was that really got me into reading. I loved it from the day I learned how to do it. I guess the first series I discovered though, would probably be Goosebumps, Animorphs, or Spooksville. All three had just been released around the time I began reading.

As for the sidenote--I see the pictures in my head. If I haven't read anything for a few weeks, it takes a chapter or two to get rolling again. But once I do, the words become pictures of their own accord.

Never worked with textbooks though. Maybe that's why I'm a Sci-Fi/Fantasy junkie.

when i was 8 the first Harry Potter book came out in swedish and my mother bought it to reed to me and my brother as a bed time story and we both loved it and my mom continued to by Harry Potter books and reed them to oss until she thout we were big enough to reed them on our own then my brother stopt reding them but i continued reeding them, thats what made me start to love reeding but what made realy love reeding was a series of books by Steven Donalson cald Mordant's need that are my favorit books of all time