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Hello anons, I'm curious, what was the first book you really got into and read, and what is the book you'd consider is the best for getting into literature as a child or young teen, obviously I don't mean books for five year old to teach them how to read, but how to make them want to read more, and enjoy reading?

My father gave me the hobbit, and I believe that worked well for me personally speaking.

>> No.10845207

>>10845173
My diary, desu.

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>>10845173
Small Child
>Roald Dahl stories

Child
>The Hobbit by Tolkien

Young Teen
>Northern Lights by Pullman

Regular Teenager
>Assassin's Apprentice by Hobb

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>>10845173
I got into reading by reading books that I saw the film adaptations to. My school had 2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, A Kestral for a Knave, etc and because I loved those movies I read each of them (A Clockwork Orange was a slog initially as I was 14 and expected nothing but shock value but afterwards I loved the book and it sort of made me appreciate the film even more).

I also read some YA fiction on holidays and Chuck Palahniuk. Probably not the best way to get into reading in hindsight but my 16 year old mind thought this stuff was amazing at the time.

I think Lovecraft helped me get into more literary authors, even if he is quite pulpy but that introduced me to weird fiction, which introduced me to dystopian novels like 1984, which introduced me to Down and Out in Paris (both by Orwell) and I kinda just got sucked into it.

I wish I read books like The Hobbit as a kid. I know when I have kids I'll want them to have The Hobbit, Watership Down and Wind in the Willows.

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>>10845252
Whoa that's a spooky picture.

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>>10845173
I read a lot as a kid, but then my parents bought me this set used for $20 and changed my life.

>> No.10845713

Some entertaining YA shit. The first books I read were stuff like Harry Potter and Artemis Foul.

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>>10845713
>Artemis Foul

>> No.10845752

I read plenty as a kid, but I never actually got into reading until 7th grade, when I read Jurassic Park.

>> No.10845789

>>10845173
When I was a kid my dad used to read the hobbit to me. Good choice OP

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>>10845744
i really, really like that lit meme

>> No.10848456

Harry Potter,
Lord of the Rings,
The Bone graphic novel series

>> No.10848479

Dino takes a Bath: A Flintstones Story