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

The Martian Chrinicles is the first adult novel I remember reading where at the end my mind was blown because my entire way of thinking had been shifted.

Sci-fi was forever my genre of choice.

The young adult novels that I read never changed the way I thought. I'd have to say I can thank Ray Bradbury for my love of sci-fi and Arthur C Clarke for my prolific high school library. The highlight of my year was the local library's yearly book sale/fundraiser where I would search through those stacks of paperbacks marked for sale at the price of 25 to 59 cents a piece.

I'd always leave with a box of material that would get me through at least a couple of months if not more.

I discovered Assimov's Robot series as well as his Foundation series (never did finish those).


Sad to say I have never revisited The Martian Chrinicles or Childhood's End.