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    I can't remember. I really have no idea.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AZ Jim View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cigar View Post
    It was a First Addition Monthly Paper Back and not Full of Advertisements then
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    See Spot Run. First book I remember reading. I don't remember how old I was.


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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    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.

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

    And "Shane".

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    i think i was four

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    Quote Originally Posted by Safety View Post
    "Old yeller", "where the red fern grows".

    And "Shane".
    Very colorful reading...
    I am tired of everyone fighting with each other. This is all by design.

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