What book turned you into a reader?

[meimei]

Well, no idea what the book is about, but I hope you are doing ok. I've read many depressing books in my time but its not good to be in that headspace, trust me. Even if life sucks a lot of time, it is worth living.

ah i am doing okay friend!! for somone who didnt read the book i know what it looks like but its different than that. thanks for the concern though!!

 

[Spyrone]

My favorites (in no particular order because I'm tired right now)

Virtual Light by William Gibson

Dog Blood by David Moody

Mort(e) by Robert Repino

World War Z by Max Brooks

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

1632 by Eric Flint

The Lost Level by Brian Keene

The Running Man by Stephen King

Generation Kill by Evan Wright

Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough

Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell

Everything We Had by Al Santoli

The Last Battle by Stephen Harding

 

[Deleted member 612095]

I like the Harry Potter books

 

[Emerald Flowsion]

Brothers Karamazov - Dostojevsky
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Magic Mountain - Mann
Moby Dick - Melville
World as Will and Representation - Schopenhauer

 

[Strategist Strategist]

If you really read war and peace, you are a champ. I still have work my way through that beast.

 

[Emerald Flowsion]

If you really read war and peace, you are a champ. I still have work my way through that beast.

I have read quite a few of those thick russian books. Big fan of russian literature.

 

[Deleted member 58254]

Heart of a samurai, divergent, diary of a wimpy kid

 

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Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)

 

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the stuff that actually turned me into a reader were comics like "turma da mônica", "mafalda", etc... child's books came naturally from that and later all the other books :)

 

[diet_orange]

Either Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey, Garfield's Pet Force: The Outrageous Origin by Jim Davis, or Attack Of The Mutant by R.L. Stine

Was a very comic book inclined child and these kind of helped me easy into "actual" literature

 

[Jdan-S]

Discovering the Choose Your Own Adventure series got me hooked on interactive fiction. I've been reading (and playing) all sorts of titles from the same genre later on: Give Yourself Goosebumps, Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, Frotz/Z-Machine, etc.

 

[Isegrim]

We had no videogames for a time when we were children and our first game would be a Pong console and that would get old pretty fast since that's all it could play. And course, the Internet was nonexistent.

Our parents bought books and two big encyclopedias for us to peruse. During that time, every family had at least one or more Encylopedias since movies and tv shows were not available at a moment's notice. With nothing better to do especially on rainy days, just reading a random entry or two from the encyclopedia was one of our pastimes. And naturally, that would instill in us a habit for reading. Even up to this day, I still prefer to consult a written article over the Internet than watch a video.

 

[strawberry29]

when i was 13 the book that made me read more is dork dairies, i had the part where nikki teaches you tips on your dairy while reading her story but that didn't lasted until i came across oxford dictionary, the book that made me a total bookworm

 

[Deleted member 906485]

Erotica.

 

[Adachi_08]

Boredom and a book about Half-Life series development.

 

[Bandini]

This is the one that started it all for me. I was 10 years old. First book I read completely. Since then I never stopped reading. Now I am a volunteer at a local public library here in Argentina.

This is the translated version that I actally read back then

 

[Badseed Badseed]

Playboy Magazine. OF COURSE I only read it for the articles

 

[pinetreeneedle56]

The Eragon series is what really made me appreciate books, and reading (period!)

 

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[Crashbandi]

This wasmy favorite Disney movie as a kid. One day I was in the school library and saw there was a book and got it immediately. didn't realize until after I finished the rest of the series there was a book before it.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

When I was in middle school, I read novelizations of Doom and Diablo (lmao) and your typical stock high fantasy stuff. These old goofy novels were entertaining and immersive to me so I kinda got hooked around then. Then, in high school some of my teachers and older friends started putting me on to more idiosyncratic and less genre specific authors covering themes I was wanting more of as I was getting older ha.

 

[Wechseln]

I was a huge reader back in my childhood thanks to the sheer amount of books in my school library but lost the habit after the nice old lady that took care of the place retired, it just wasn't the same anymore.

I got back to it in highschool when I found a few of the X-Files novels in the library, I was a huge fan of the show so I read them all the time during recess, they aren't that good, but I'm very fond of them as they pretty much reignited my love for books as a form of entertainment.

 

[Luxfin]

Dairy of a Wimpy Kid, Cat in the Hat, One of the Nancy Drew books, and The Time Machine.

 

[Viyon]

The Count of Monte Cristo
I was in elementary school and we had to read a book for the summer, we got a list of 20 something titles and while everyone wanted to read easy books, I stumbled upon this 1000+ pages titan and I really wanted to overcome that, my teacher even advised against but I had already set my eyes on it, it was already too late. So I got my first book from the local library and it got me hooked, I absolutely loved the story and the characters, and it's still my favourite book 20 years later, some years ago I got a newer edition that was re-translated in my language and still reread it from time to time.

 

[Mopeybloke]

The Lord of the Rings did it about 20 years ago. However, I've since become again not a reader.