re: What book really sparked your love of reading.

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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.

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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.