/lit/ - Literature

No one in particular, I've never gotten this sort of absent father worship some philosophers get. It's also very harmful: You end up relating every philosophy work you read to the first few you ever read.
If the general question is what first got me into reading literature, it would be my parents buying me a gas station copy of Romeo & Juliet when I was 8
If the question is what first got me to into philosophy instead, it would be reading 1984 when I was 10, near the end during Winston's torture scene the word "Metaphysics" is mentioned, and being 10yo I didnt know what it meant, so I looked it up, and then I asked my parents to buy Aristotles 'Metaphysics' for me, but being 10yo it utterly filtered me, but I kept at it