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re: What hooked you on reading & what is the first book you remember reading?
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:42 am to Methuselah
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:42 am to Methuselah
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy got me hooked.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 8:30 am to unbeWEAVEable
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For me it was the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. First series I ever read too.
Seems to be a fairly common theme. I remember when my dad bought me Mossflower in the little mom and pop bookshop near our house - little did he know he just signed himself up for a lot of $$$ in books over the years, although it did make shopping for Christmas for me easier.
Posted on 8/23/17 at 12:47 pm to Methuselah
Other than actual kiddie books for babies and toddlers, and non-fiction books such as encyclopedias and WWII books (which I read all I could get my hands on, as early as 6 and 7 years old), I think it was Encylopedia Brown. I guess I identified with the main character.
Posted on 8/23/17 at 10:13 pm to Methuselah
Nancy Drew, Being and Nothingness and Dune got me going.
Posted on 9/2/17 at 12:14 pm to Methuselah
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What hooked you on reading
Where the Red Fern Grows
Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of NIMH
Jurassic Park
The Pocket Book of Boners- Dr Seuss
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what is the first book you remember reading
Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein. Too many memories of lots of them to remember which was first.
Posted on 9/4/17 at 6:58 am to fischd1
Being and nothingness?
Got you into reading?
Got you into reading?
Posted on 9/6/17 at 6:07 am to Methuselah
First books I remember reading are Goosebumps. First real book, Jurassic Park.
Posted on 9/6/17 at 9:51 pm to StrongBackWeakMind
Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Hatchet.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 11:37 am to Methuselah
Never really got hooked on reading. I can't just read anything. But the one series of books that I will never stop reading is The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The LOTR. Silmarillion is the first book I've ever read, and I can't get enough of them all.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 3:34 pm to LSU49er
The first book I really remember a good amount of the content was
Posted on 9/12/17 at 12:32 pm to Iron Sights
This thread reminded me of Hatchet. I just read Brian's Return in two hours at the library.
Posted on 9/12/17 at 2:08 pm to Methuselah
The first book I remember finishing was the great illustrated classics version of Tom Sawyer. I was in Kindergarten.
I don't remember what specifically hooked me on reading though, as I started reading when I was only 3.
The closest thing that I can say hooked me were my favorite books. A collection printed in 1936 called My Book House. There were roughly 15 books designed for kids of all ages from preschool to college, and I read them all a countless number of time before I turned 8.
The books had stories, legends, and poetry from every culture with written classics. For example, just 3 books of the series contain The Divine Comedy, Faust, Lohengrin, excerpts from The Ramayana, The Kalevala, The Odyssey, The Saga of Frithjof, La Chanson De Roland, ShahNameh, Aeneid, El Cantar de Mio Cid, 1001 Arabian Knights, Beowulf, The Tale of Bygone Years aka Primary Chronicle, The Tale of the Rhine-Gold, The Tale of Igor's Campaign, Kraljevich Marko, and Don Quixote. As well as selections from Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Irving, Zangwill, Tennyson, Kipling, Longfellow, Ibsin, Arthur Chapman, Robert Burns, Edward Rowland Sill, Chaucer, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Browning, and Richard Wagner.
How many 7 year olds have read Faust?
I don't remember what specifically hooked me on reading though, as I started reading when I was only 3.
The closest thing that I can say hooked me were my favorite books. A collection printed in 1936 called My Book House. There were roughly 15 books designed for kids of all ages from preschool to college, and I read them all a countless number of time before I turned 8.
The books had stories, legends, and poetry from every culture with written classics. For example, just 3 books of the series contain The Divine Comedy, Faust, Lohengrin, excerpts from The Ramayana, The Kalevala, The Odyssey, The Saga of Frithjof, La Chanson De Roland, ShahNameh, Aeneid, El Cantar de Mio Cid, 1001 Arabian Knights, Beowulf, The Tale of Bygone Years aka Primary Chronicle, The Tale of the Rhine-Gold, The Tale of Igor's Campaign, Kraljevich Marko, and Don Quixote. As well as selections from Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Irving, Zangwill, Tennyson, Kipling, Longfellow, Ibsin, Arthur Chapman, Robert Burns, Edward Rowland Sill, Chaucer, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Browning, and Richard Wagner.
How many 7 year olds have read Faust?
This post was edited on 9/12/17 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 9/17/17 at 11:23 am to Methuselah
Started reading Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins books in the 3rd grade.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 2:12 am to Methuselah
The Little Prince was the first book I remember reading. I told my dad I read it, he didn't believe me, and quizzed me extensively. I passed with flying colors and from that moment on, I was the new man of the house.
I also read it in French (Le Petite Prince) because apparently I could speak fluent French back then (my dad could -- and still can -- and taught me from a young age.) Nowadays, my French is abominable because I switched to learning Southern as I grew up. Y'all.
I also read it in French (Le Petite Prince) because apparently I could speak fluent French back then (my dad could -- and still can -- and taught me from a young age.) Nowadays, my French is abominable because I switched to learning Southern as I grew up. Y'all.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 3:02 pm to Methuselah
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What hooked you on reading & what is the first book you remember
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