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>>8242723
The first one I read, of my own choosing.
>>8242723
The first one I reread, of my own choosing.
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. So thankful for the book and author. Reading it started a domino effect that is still going strong for four years and has changed my life.
Infinite Jest
>>8242723 (OP)
The first one I unread, of my own choosing.
>>8242723
Little Bear's soup. That shit was a chapter book.
>>8242723
Fahrenheit 451, so thought provoking.
>>8242723
Goosebumps when I was 10. I've always had a library since then.
I loved stuff from Otfried Preußler and Michael Ende as a kid.
The Giver
>>8242723
Kokoro.
If you mean which book sparked my interest in reading, it was definetely "The Hobbit", when I was 10. Sadly I never had the chance to ask my father why he got me that specific book.
Anyways, thanks dad.
>>8242723
Can't remember because I was a small child, but it was my mommy that got me into reading.
Either Starship Troopers or Ender's Game i was about 8 years old. They were the first books that gave me total immerssion
I love them. The Films are trash
I hadn't read a book in years when I came here. Naturally I bought Infinite Jest and Gravitys rainbow. I was so bewildered, kinda like losing your virginity in a thugish gangbang.
>>8242723
The Stranger, after that I read exile and kingdom
>>8242723
I don't remember. There wasn't some sort of event where I decided to started reading books; I've enjoyed reading ever since I learnt how
>>8242723
The Dark Tower books made me a casual reader, Ulysses made me become a serious reader. I decided one day that I wanted to read it and that led me down the Greeks, earlier Joyce, the lost generation, and Shakespeare in preparation. It's all just grown from there.
>>8242723
The complete stories of flannery o conner
Kafka's short stories
literally decided to get off drugs so i could read
The Satanic Verses
A Doll's House got me going.
The A to Z Mysteries made me a book worm.
It was freshman year when my roommate gave me The Sun Also Rises, and my life was forever changed since.
>>8245486
his short stories are pretty comfy, desu
glad he helped you find your way, friend :^)
>/lit/
>"readers"
No one here actually reads, we're all just here for the soggy dank maims
My dad used to read the hobbit to me every night before i went to sleep when I was still illiterate. Farenheit 451 when I was a freshman in highschool.
Ironically I got suspended senior year for being intoxicated and sent to the bad kid school and started reading simple stuff like game of thrones.
The real catalyst was when I tore my ACL and started reading "serious" lit high as shit on hydrocodone during the recovery.
inexplicable angst.
Probably Ender's Game
lol you guise are a bunch of assholes
Boxcar Children #1 or The Time Machine
>>8245440
This. I think my first "chapter" book was one of the Magic Treehouse books, but I had always read for enjoyment for as long as I could read
>>8242723
One Hundred Years of Solitude
I just couldn't stop. Also, the first book I reread. Thinking about reading it for the third time now.
>>8246103
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
I found the Redditor, everyone!
Augustus by Anthony Everitt. It caused me to read Plutarch, which then led me to read the rest of the Classics canon.
>>8246106
Found the retard. Only pseuds that haven't read him but want to have contrarian opinions think GGM is a bad writer.
>>8246128
he is bad.
>now this happened. there was a weird kid with a big dick. then this happened. there was a girl who ate handfuls of dirt. then this happened. now this happened.
>>8246128
I literally dropped One Hundred Years of Memes after 70 pages.
>muh magical surrealism
This is honestly worse than the Pynchon and DFW memes.
>>8242734
is this book good for adults as well
im wondering as a kike comic nerd, so if nothing else itll be relatable
>>8242723
>>8242728
>>8242732
The first book I read that I chose myself, and I still remember so much about it to this day
>>8246360
yes it's written for adults, the title just sounds childish cuz of the comic book theme
Do you mean the first book that made me realize reading was a fun and rewarding hobby or the one that made me realize that books offer something to be gained and experienced that are just impossible from any other medium?
The first would probably be The Hobbit or one of those Eoin Colfer (fuck off with Irish names) books, the second is Infinite Jest or 1984.
>>8246413
cool imma read it
Youth in Revolt when I was in 6th grade.
Notes From Underground
>>8246479
Good choice
i've been an avid reader ever since 10 years ago when i was 15 and i read infinite jest
Blood Meridian. Never did I think words could be composed together so lyrically and evocatively.
To Kill a Mockingbird in middle school. I still reread it now and then. It's a comfy read imagining the town of Maycomb and just how small and alien it was to me as an asian immigrant was fun.
The part where Atticus has sex with the dying old lady to teach his son about the dignity of morphine addiction really made me think.
pic related
>>8242723
Green Eggs and Ham.
It's hard to remember what the earliest actual books I read were, but this is definitely one of the early ones that I really distinctly remember loving. I would have been about 8 or 9 when I first read it.
I suppose this would count? One of the collection books, at least.
When I was about 7 or something, I wanted to understand what Calvin was talking about when he talked in fancy words and sentiments, and my parents weren't so much the readin' sorts, so I just started reading more and more difficult books.
>>8246900
>7
>calvin and hobbes
underage b&
>>8245413
I got those suggestions off here too. They completely blew my mind and transitioned me from the modernist books i read in high school to current novel and all the complexities possible in story-telling.
>>8245404
I liked the starship troopers movie before I read the book, but still the movie is interesting and has it's place among Paul Verhoeven's work
>>8242723
Candide, until then I thought movies were insurmountable vessels of story.
The Pale King
>>8242723
It was a short story anthology, Best of the 20th Century or something like that it was called. There were two pieces by Virginia Woolf, two by Nabokov, one Ballard, one Le Clezio, one Mishima, three or four very short vignettes by Kawabata, one by Isaac Singer, two by Calvino, one Malcolm Lowry, and a bunch of others I can't remember.
This was in the early 80s and we were a socialist country back then, so there were a handful of socialist realist Russians in there too but they weren't all awful.
I remember also this weird Borges-like story by a Belgian author that I haven't heard of since.
Oh, now I remember one of the pieces by a Russian author--I think I should say "Soviet author" because the name sounded Armenian, though I can't remember it precisely--it wasn't socialist realist at all, it was this weird fantastical allegory about a hermit living in a desert in a timeless setting, who is confronted by three mysterious characters with all sorts of supernatural powers.
Fuck, I wish I had that book with me right now.
Catcher in the Rye
Moby-Dick
I was probably 19 or 20.
