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

My Dad had a huge Hardy Boys collection from when he was younger. It seemed to me that he must have had them all. Who knows. I think my grand mother used to give him a dime or quarter or whatever small denomination to buy them when they would go shopping on magazine st in the 60's. I remember reading one of them about I think it was some kind of Chinese pirate ship that the boys restored. This was probably like 20 years ago that I read it, so I guess I could be completely misremembering it. I wonder what ever happened to those books.