Comments on: What do you remember reading first?

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:04:03 +0000

My mom said I was reading the World Book Encyclopedias when I was 2. I remember reading about the human body, aqnd the clear pages with the anatomy illustrations. I remember reading about the dog breeds, and the solar system. I also remeber reading our 1950s Funk and Wagners that didn’t even list Pluto, I guess they are up to date again!

By: Daeng Bo

Daeng Bo — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:15:05 +0000

Green Eggs and Ham. I had the book memorized by three years old and started reading it (from memory first, but eventually working out most of the words) at about four years old. God, I loved Dr. Seuss. Even though I was an avid reader, I also watched Sesame Street until much later than my peers.
My dad gave me his entire Hardy Boys collection when I was eight and I went through those, then he started giving me his Science Fiction Book of the Month Club books. I was hooked and read SciFi until my early twenties.
I stopped reading fiction about fifteen years ago, though. I still read a lot, but it’s all non-fiction.

By: stormy

stormy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:31:44 +0000

That makes sense – a lot of them seem to be written in different voices.

By: sp

sp — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:18:18 +0000

nancy drew and hardy boys were written by a syndicate, the same syndicate, but not necessarily the same authors (though for periods of time, I guess the syndicate hired the same author for both).
see wikipedia.

By: stormy

stormy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:22:43 +0000

Giacomo, Donald, that’s cool that you both remember how you found your first book …

By: Donald Ray Moore Jr. (mindrape)

Donald Ray Moore Jr. (mindrape) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:32:43 +0000

i read my first book at the age of six, it was Nancy Drew and the Red Glowing Eye. Found it in the trash in the alleyway back in 78, still have it on my bookshelf today.
btw, i think a number of different people wrote nancy drew under the same name.

By: Giacomo

Giacomo — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:02:12 +0000

Picking and choosing? Jules Verne’s “The Mysterious Island”, when I was 7 or 8. I found it at the book stand in a summer festival and bugged my parents until they bought it.
My first “real book,” before that I had been reading mostly comics or illustrated books.