/lit/ - Literature

I read the Harry Potter series when I was 14 and am glad I did. Before that I hated reading, and English was my worst subject (my first language isn't English so pardon my bad expressions). One of my classmates forced me to read the Potter series together with her, and after being pestered again and again I thought why not, since it was popular and almost every other kid was reading it.

After reading the Harry Potter series, it was as if something unlocked inside me - I figured that reading was actually fun and I wanted to read more. So I went looking for books that were popular or adapted into movies, like Memoirs of a Geisha, The Time Traveller's Wife, The Road, Twilight series, The saga of Darren Shan, Dan Brown's books, The Reader, Q&A (Slumdog Millionaire), etc because they were easy to find. /lit/ will most probably cringe at the titles I mentioned, but for a 14 year old kid at that time who didn't even bother to pick up a book before, it was surely a good sign.

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