#BookLoversDay! What was the first book that got you hooked on reading?

Rushcourt71

To tell you the truth, I grew up in a world of books. I used to frequent libraries and devour books as a child the way boys my age would play football. Like many others I tested adventures through child fiction from the Asterix comics, TinTin and others before moving on to Jules Verne, Sherlock Holmes and the like to Non Fiction in general by the time I reached my teens.

I had a huge collection of Encyclopaedia Britannica (1943 edition) along with other very old versions in my twenties and now I just collect all kinds of books on my kindle, hard drives and computers.

As to my first real passion in Non Fiction as a young adult, I would say it was books like Ripleys and the Guinness Book of Records.     

soothsayer

does anyone miss Phantom comics

cynic

soothsayer 15-8-2018 09:40 AM
does anyone miss Phantom comics

ME! Loved Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, but Asterix and Tintin were favorites.

soothsayer

Phew! So great to hear that !Me too. Reminds me much more of What i miss now

Don_tgomez

John Grisham's legal thriller The Firm got the best of me and started me off that path.

anisojaru7981

Enid Blyton and Stayajit Ray books...

Ananya10

I basically was a strictly non reader...and found out that reading was so waste of time...but once I accidentally found a novel dropped by my crush..that novel was I TOO HAD A LOVE STORY..for a book which I received for free...i started reading..n to the storyline i went through i something special..n so I decided to give him something in return..as he expressed his affection in such a beautiful way!!! I didn't know then who dropped it for me..but soon i tricked him into admitting n that was something great...coz of that book i felt an urge to read

Ananya10

cynic 15-8-2018 03:24 PM
ME! Loved Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, but Asterix and Tintin were favorites.

Yes iItoo miss them..do YOU have them???

cynic

Ananya10 20-8-2018 10:19 PM
Yes iItoo miss them..do YOU have them???

They are available in the Reading Room section. You can access them by applying for the Readers user level.

kitabikida

Kidnapped by RLS at the age of 12