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re: What book really sparked your love of reading.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 4:56 pm to lsufan9193969700
Posted on 11/29/14 at 4:56 pm to lsufan9193969700
Narnia
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Posted on 11/29/14 at 4:57 pm to lsufan9193969700
20,000 Leagues Beneath The Sea
Posted on 11/29/14 at 5:13 pm to lsufan9193969700
I've loved reading as long as I can remember. So I can't really pinpoint one book that started my love of books. I can remember participating in Pizza Hut's Book It! club and earning many personal pan pizzas due to all the books I read. Remember the thrill of getting that monthly Scholastic catalog each month from my elementary school teachers and poring over all the books on there, using my allowance money to buy books. Can also remember the joy that was the annual book fair in the library ("I'm shopping for books AT school! That I can take home today??!!!"). Remember having every Babysitter's Club book there was. Checking out Sweet Valley High books, Choose Your Own Adventure, and other series from my local library and devouring them. My first "adult" books Stephen King books. Remember learning more about sex as a kid by steamy passages in some of the adult books I read. Giggling with my friends as we would show each other these passages at school without the teacher finding out.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 5:42 pm to lsufan9193969700
My Secret Garden
Posted on 11/29/14 at 5:45 pm to lsufan9193969700
Honestly, it was series of books called The Animorphs. It stoked my love of nature and set me on my career path.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 5:59 pm to lsufan9193969700
Loved reading all my life. My second grade teacher recommended American Educator encyclopedias to my mother and we bought a set. Got a yearbook from them for the next ten years with all the important events of that year.
My dad was a voracious reader, so I read whatever he had just finished. I read 'Ball Four' at age ten and 'Huey Long' soon after, so I was way ahead of my age level.
I have several hundred books in my sight as I type this.
My dad was a voracious reader, so I read whatever he had just finished. I read 'Ball Four' at age ten and 'Huey Long' soon after, so I was way ahead of my age level.
I have several hundred books in my sight as I type this.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 6:12 pm to lsufan9193969700
The notebook
Posted on 11/29/14 at 6:18 pm to Geaux71887
quote:
Honestly, it was series of books called The Animorphs.
This. I even ran a fan site back in the 90s/early 00s with a friend of mine.
Though before that I was all about Goosebumps and Fear Street.
I've never pretended to enjoy high-caliber literature.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 6:23 pm to lsu480
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Same here, I tried years ago and quit and then a couple years after that I started over and finished it. If there was a way to know I would bet good money I have read more books than anyone on here under 40 and I just could not get into that book. On this board people think its one of the all-time greats, I don't know if that sentiment is shared nationwide, but I just didn't get why it gets the praise it does.
I did the same thing. Tried in high school, again in college and finally a few years ago in my late forties just made myself get through it and hated every page. It was like taking medicine.
I read Where the Red Fern Grows when I was 10 and that got me hooked. I read anything from classic to this to the back of a tube of toothpaste. I always have two or three books at various stages as well as a couple audiobooks for driving. Reading Walter Isaacsons The Innovators, Annie Jacobsons Operation Paperclip and listening to Killing Patton, Grishams Sycamore Row and The Smartest Guys in the Room The Enron Story.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 6:25 pm to Martini
Redwall.
That's probably it.
I've been reading as long as i can remember, Calvin and Hobbs, Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstine, etc..., but Redwall was the first book i read that i could not put down and i read every book in the series.
That's probably it.
I've been reading as long as i can remember, Calvin and Hobbs, Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstine, etc..., but Redwall was the first book i read that i could not put down and i read every book in the series.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 7:44 pm to Breesus
I just liked to read as a kid. RL Stein Goosebumps and Boxcar Children.
Most kids would get a toy or candy when they go to the store. I would always want a new Goosebumps book!
Most kids would get a toy or candy when they go to the store. I would always want a new Goosebumps book!
Posted on 11/29/14 at 7:56 pm to lsufan9193969700
Peter Pan when I was about 6.
Posted on 11/29/14 at 8:06 pm to lsufan9193969700
To Kill a Mockingbird
Posted on 11/29/14 at 8:08 pm to chinhoyang
Young Men and Fire
Posted on 11/29/14 at 8:59 pm to lsufan9193969700
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Posted on 11/29/14 at 9:43 pm to lsufan9193969700
Either
The Count of Monte Cristo
or
The Mosquito Coast
The Count of Monte Cristo
or
The Mosquito Coast
Posted on 11/29/14 at 10:03 pm to lsufan9193969700
Of Mice and Men
Posted on 11/29/14 at 10:10 pm to Requiem for a Dream
Great story!
Posted on 11/29/14 at 11:20 pm to lsufan9193969700
We had an Accelerated Reader program where you read books and took an online quiz and got points for them in elementary as well as a great library so that definitely helped spark my interest.
Harry potter came out when I was young and my mom used to read us the first one and I loved it and read all of them non stop each time they came out, so HP series was probably the biggest spark
Harry potter came out when I was young and my mom used to read us the first one and I loved it and read all of them non stop each time they came out, so HP series was probably the biggest spark
Posted on 11/29/14 at 11:26 pm to wrc12
Where the Red Fern Grows
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
I read those over and over as a kid. Had a dog that birthed two Black and Tan pups. They were named Dan and Ann. Turned out not to be good hunters, but oh well.
Later it was Mockingbird and Catcher and all the Mark Twain classics.
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
I read those over and over as a kid. Had a dog that birthed two Black and Tan pups. They were named Dan and Ann. Turned out not to be good hunters, but oh well.
Later it was Mockingbird and Catcher and all the Mark Twain classics.
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