What was the first book you read?

[AZ Jim]

I don't mean what Mom read to you, "the little train that could" or any of the children books. I read a book in 1948 which was hot off the press and It held me captive. It had a scary mystery and plenty of suspense. Just for kicks I looked it up and Amazon still sells it. I read it as a 12 year old. What was your first book?

[zelmo1234]

Mine was likely the Hardy Boys Mystery's or the Great Brain!

I liked those.

[Private Pickle]

Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, Judy BLume. Read it in 2nd Grade.

[Cigar]

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[AZ Jim]

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[hanger4]

I'm sure comic books don't count, but they were Superman and Justice League of America.

Real books were Jack London's Call of the Wild and White Fang. First ones I can remember. Afterward it was a number of the classics.

[Cigar]

Book! Book! Not masturbation mags.


It was a First Addition Monthly Paper Back :grin: and not Full of Advertisements then

[midcan5]

Lots of soft core porn novels stolen from Korvettes. First serious reading, Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot.'

[Peter1469]

Various books on Greek and Roman mythology that I got from the library.

[AZ Jim]

Want to put the world and you into prospective? Read an old best Seller by a then Hollywood star who threw in all away in a quest of self discovery. Sterling Haden's "The wanderer". http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6599390

[Mister D]

I can't remember. I really have no idea.

[Archer0915]

I don't mean what Mom read to you, "the little train that could" or any of the children books. I read a book in 1948 which was hot off the press and It held me captive. It had a scary mystery and plenty of suspense. Just for kicks I looked it up and Amazon still sells it. I read it as a 12 year old. What was your first book?

The first one I remember was Moby Dick.

[AZ Jim]

It was a First Addition Monthly Paper Back :grin: and not Full of Advertisements thenOk! Ok! ok! We'll consider it "fine literature". Peace....

[Chris]

See Spot Run. First book I remember reading. I don't remember how old I was.

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[Adelaide]

The "Dawn" series by V.C. Andrews (before she died and got a ghost writer) is what stands out in my mind. I was 7 or 8, I think, and the themes were pretty dark. Once I could read I stole romance novels from my mother and the occasional Robert Ludlum or other spy novelist from my dad. I also found a handful of Stephen King novels and the original Amityville book. My aunt and grandmother would sneak me books by Iris Johansen and Nora Roberts, (more romance and mystery novels). I would read about a book per day by the time I was 13. At some point my parents decided I should be reading age appropriate material and bought me things like the entire Little House on the Prairie series for Christmas. Pft...

It wasn't until my teens that I started buying my own books and went for non-fiction.

Whenever I feel stressed out, though, I revert back to reading a romance/mystery novel because it feels like I'm not using my brain. I find it relaxing.

[Archer0915]

The "Dawn" series by V.C. Andrews (before she died and got a ghost writer) is what stands out in my mind. I was 7 or 8, I think, and the themes were pretty dark. Once I could read I stole romance novels from my mother and the occasional Robert Ludlum or other spy novelist from my dad. I also found a handful of Stephen King novels and the original Amityville book. My aunt and grandmother would sneak me books by Iris Johansen and Nora Roberts, (more romance and mystery novels). I would read about a book per day by the time I was 13. At some point my parents decided I should be reading age appropriate material and bought me things like the entire Little House on the Prairie series for Christmas. Pft...

It wasn't until my teens that I started buying my own books and went for non-fiction.

Whenever I feel stressed out, though, I revert back to reading a romance/mystery novel because it feels like I'm not using my brain. I find it relaxing.

My wife read those when she was younger! How she did not turn into a screwed up, sex fiend, bisexual, liberal, I will never know.

[texan]

I honestly hated reading until I was an adult. I cliff noted everything. I would say really and truly I started reading biography type stuff. So I went to sports first since I had an interest and read Mike Ditka's.......Then the first other category was tom Clancy's Patriot Games.

[Safety]

"Old yeller", "where the red fern grows".

And "Shane".

[del]

summa theologica

i think i was four

[texan]

"Old yeller", "where the red fern grows".

And "Shane".

Very colorful reading...

[Hal Jordan]

I started reading books when I was 4. I don't remember what they were.

[Dr. Who]

When I was 6 it was various fairy tales, then Ann of Green Gables when I was about seven, along with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. After that, I recall reading Black Beauty, Jack London's Call of the Wild and Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf, but when I was 10 or 11 we ended up with a box of paperbacks from a friend of my Dad's who was storing some stuff in our basement. I recall reading the Valachi Papers, Valley of the Dolls, a bunch of spy thrillers - I no longer recall the titles. My mother didn't know I was reading them. After that, I moved on to science fiction - Asimov, Heinlein, E.E. Doc Smith....

[Dr. Who]

I started reading books when I was 4. I don't remember what they were.
I was also reading at 4. This was the first book I ever read:
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[Cthulhu]

Pretty sure the first actual book I remember reading was Frog and Toad. Which one I don't know.

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[Hal Jordan]

When I was 6 it was various fairy tales, then Ann of Green Gables when I was about seven, along with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. After that, I recall reading Black Beauty, Jack London's Call of the Wild and Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf, but when I was 10 or 11 we ended up with a box of paperbacks from a friend of my Dad's who was storing some stuff in our basement. I recall reading the Valachi Papers, Valley of the Dolls, a bunch of spy thrillers - I no longer recall the titles. My mother didn't know I was reading them. After that, I moved on to science fiction - Asimov, Heinlein, E.E. Doc Smith....

I've been told to check out E.E. Doc Smith...

[Dr. Who]

I've been told to check out E.E. Doc Smith...
I always enjoyed his stories.

[sachem]

The Bobbsey Twins.

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[Oboe]

I don't mean what Mom read to you, "the little train that could" or any of the children books. I read a book in 1948 which was hot off the press and It held me captive. It had a scary mystery and plenty of suspense. Just for kicks I looked it up and Amazon still sells it. I read it as a 12 year old. What was your first book?

Storm over Warlock

[AeonPax]

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Tom Swift and His Electric Yo-Yo.

[gamewell45]

Henry Reed, Inc. By Keith Robertson

[decedent]

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[AZ Jim]

http://thepoliticalforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15534&stc=1I started that but couldn't stay interested.

[maineman]

A Tale of Two Cities...

I read a lot of Dr. Suess and Munro Leaf... but that was my first adult book.

[sachem]

A Tale of Two CitiesIn the first grade?

[Cthulhu]

I've been told to check out E.E. Doc Smith...
Lensmen all the way.

But to really understand you need to read the rather dry back drop that is Triplanetary.

Sent from my evil, baby seal-clubbing cellphone.

[maineman]

In the first grade? I think in 2nd...I read it in Minnesota at summer camp.

[Cigar]

I can't remember. I really have no idea.


I'm sure it was a subject that you're now the expert on.

[maineman]

and my older sister was going to the girl's camp that was across the lake, and that summer she suggested that I also read Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys by Alcott. Good stories.

[kilgram]

Not able to remember. Probably "el Camino" of Miguel Delibes at school.

[nathanbforrest45]

A Critique of Pure Reason by Emanuel Kant. I read it in the 2nd grade.


Actually, I think the first book I read was "The Five Chinese Brothers". I was in the 3rd or 4th grade. I recently found it and bought it for my grandson. The first book I ever checked out of the library was Robert Heinlein's "Rolling Stones". I was in the 4th Grade.

[Standing Wolf]

Probably something from my father's library. I remember reading the Sherlock Holmes stories when I was very young. Books about dinosaurs from the library. As discussed in another thread, 'Space Prison' by Tom Godwin. I think the first book I bought with my own money was E.R. Burroughs' 'Tarzan and the Ant Men'. I, too, read 'Doc' Smith's Lensman series and the Henry Reed books.

[Standing Wolf]

A bit off-topic. All-time favorite children's book, whether you remember it from your own childhood or it's something you read your kids or grandkids. I fell in love with Shel Silverstein's 'The Giving Tree' when my children were small, but my very favorite kids' book is called 'Mouse and Tim'.

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It's a book about compassion and friendship and about letting wild things go.

[nathanbforrest45]

My favorite children's book is "How to prepare wild game"

[Adelaide]

My wife read those when she was younger! How she did not turn into a screwed up, sex fiend, bisexual, liberal, I will never know.

Are you implying I am a screwed up, sex fiend, bisexual liberal? I think I only meet two of those criteria.

[Bethere]

I don't mean what Mom read to you, "the little train that could" or any of the children books. I read a book in 1948 which was hot off the press and It held me captive. It had a scary mystery and plenty of suspense. Just for kicks I looked it up and Amazon still sells it. I read it as a 12 year old. What was your first book?

I didn't really do books until 4th grade. My dad was an editor at the Dayton Daily News and he brought home two newspapers every day. One would be the DDN, and the other would be another great American paper. If I cut out an article and was prepared to discuss it with him and my mother the English teacher at dinner? That was worth cash on the spot.

Dad knew that I would grow up to be a troll, and this was my preparation.

I also was the proud owner of more comic books than any child should ever be allowed to own. I liked DC, but make mine Marvell!

When I fell in love with books my mom gave me a list of the 100 greatest American novels. A challenge to complete, it became the sturdy backbone of my liberal arts education.

[Captain Obvious]

The first book I read because I wanted to read it vs. because I had to? I read the Grapes of Wrath, Scarlet Letter, stuff like that because I had to but the first book I picked up on my own in High School was The Hobbit.

I remember, I had a free period and I was goofing off in the Library. Sr. Francine (who was kind of cool but was getting annoyed with me) said "why don't you read a book since you're here" and I reached over to the book return cart not even looking and picked up a coverless paperback version of The Hobbit. Started reading it there.

I was up until after midnight and finished it in that one sitting.

Ever since I've been a Tolkein fan and I felt kind of violated when the movies came out, like Hollywood bastardized for the ignorant masses something that was sacred to me.

[PeoplePower]

"Where the sidewalk ends"
Next is probably "Huckleberry Finn"

[waltky]

One of those with 'Jip' the dog in it...

... I don't remember which one...

... I was only 5 years old.

[Chris]

One of those with 'Jip' the dog in it...

... I don't remember which one...

... I was only 5 years old.


"See Jip. See Jip jump."

That one?

I grew up with "See Spot. See Spot run."

They woulda had fun together, Jip and Spot.

[Tahuyaman]

The first book I read was either a novel called Fielder From Nowhere, or a collection of short biographies titled Champions all the way.

[Docthehun]

My passion was the encyclopedia and I started with "A" and made it through the end, although there was much I passed over. Still, it created a thirst for knowledge that I've yet to lose. I suppose I fit the description of a lifetime student. I've also discovered, the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know and the gap continues to widen.


Book wise, my first real recollection was the entire Hardy Boys series.

Only book I read more than once; "Catcher in the Rye".

[resister]

My passion was the encyclopedia and I started with "A" and made it through the end, although there was much I passed over. Still, it created a thirst for knowledge that I've yet to lose. I suppose I fit the description of a lifetime student. I've also discovered, the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know and the gap continues to widen.


Book wise, my first real recollection was the entire Hardy Boys series.

Only book I read more than once; "Catcher in the Rye".Agree with everything, but you forgot Nat Geo

[exploited]

Hmm... The first book I read, fully, I read to my mom. It was called the Gang of... Something? I remember the plot centered around a group of Jewish kids, whose dad was an intelligence officer. They fought off terrorists?

I can't really remember.

[resister]

Agree with everything, but you forgot Nat Geo
Saw my first boobies there also(note, not the birds):laugh:

[resister]

Hmm... The first book I read, fully, I read to my mom. It was called the Gang of... Something? I remember the plot centered around a group of Jewish kids, whose dad was an intelligence officer. They fought off terrorists?

I can't really remember.Sounds like possible propaganda?

[exploited]

Sounds like possible propaganda?

Possibly. I picked it out myself though, thought it sounded interesting, and it was. I also read Goosebumps, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, back in the day.

My first serious book was Catcher in the Rye.

[resister]

Possibly. I picked it out myself though, thought it sounded interesting, and it was. I also read Goosebumps, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, back in the day.

My first serious book was Catcher in the Rye.
Cool beans

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd's was Lolita...

... by dat Nabakov guy...

... when he was 15.

[jigglepete]

I'm pretty sure that the first book I read was Roger Staubacks biography...which is the main reason I can't stand the Cowboys LOL.