re: What hooked you on reading & what is the first book you remember reading?

First book I really remember reading, if it counts as a book, were the garfield books on the crapper. Used to read those over and over again, and use that time to read.

I liked some of the early goosebumps books when I was young, but probably the book that got me "hooked" was either Ender's Game or The Crimson Shadow series by Salvatore. That highway halfman still cracks me up. My older brother is 4 1/2 years older so i was reading them in my pre-teen years at the beach house in the summer. My mom used to force us to read (she didn't care what we read so it wasn't too bad)