/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1082590]

First novel you remember reading

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[Anonymous No.1082597]

[Anonymous No.1082601]

Stuart Little. But I hardly remember anything about it.

[Anonymous No.1082618]

Hello, childhood.

[Anonymous No.1082637]

This shit. We read it in groups and I was put in the slow group because I was a dumby.

It was 5th grad IIRC, perhaps earlier.

[Anonymous No.1082643]

Fuck yeah, early Redwall. This is THE story that got me hooked on giant-sized books at an early age.

[Anonymous No.1082646]

>>1082637
Ah! I remember reading that when I was reading through my intermediate school library. Man, that was a while back. I just remember it was about a spanish or something girl and there was a campsite or work camp or something. Wish I had better memory.

[Anonymous No.1082657]

I remember picking this up in like 2nd or 3rd grade but didnt understand it at the time lol

[Anonymous No.1082666]

Everyone bitches about his Christianity, but I grew up reading these books and ended up an atheist. Still love 'em, too.

[Anonymous No.1082667]

I read it during standardized testing week in like fifth grade. Shit was SO cash.

[Anonymous No.1082670]

It's not the first, but it's certainly one of the first full-length novels I ever read. I was kind of an early bloomer when it came to reading, and when I got tired of my kiddie books my mother decided to give me some YA reading material. Thanks, mom, thanks a fucking lot.

[Anonymous No.1082672]

>>1082667
I wished to be the little marooned island girl. ;_;

[Anonymous No.1082681]

>>1082670
dont them books have incest? you read them as a young adult? lol

[Anonymous No.1082698]

>>1082643
This, even though I think I read part #2 first (moss something(?)).

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>>1082618

I nostalgiad hard

[Anonymous No.1082723]

The Mouse and the Motorcycle, 1st grade.

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[Anonymous No.1082743]

How can you even remember things like that? D:

[Trevor !sS3IIIdY12 No.1082753]

>>1082743
How could you forget the first book you read? I usually remember the first of everything I've done if it was something "monumental" to my life. Being able to read a book for the first time was pretty important to me.

[Anonymous No.1082756]

I have no idea man, I read so much as a child.

[Anonymous No.1082781]

>>1082756
same here
can't remember when I went from being read to/reading together/reading alone.

[Anonymous No.1082787]

The Westing Game.

Lot of stuff in there you wouldn't really expect in a kid's novel. Turtle is anon embodied as the little girl.

[Anonymous No.1082799]

The first book I remember reading was some book on the human immune system. That's the sort of thing I mostly read as a kid. Aspie, by the way, though I never learned that until later on in my teenage years.

Did read LotR, so I guess The Fellowship of the Ring would be my first novel.

[Anonymous No.1082817]

BOOK, book? As in, something that is ostensibly a novel? For me it would be that one about the kid who gets two coonhounds and at the end the dogs are critically injured by a mountain lion ... or maybe they freeze to death, or else that's another book, or something.

[Anonymous No.1082944]

op's

[Anonymous No.1082962]

>>1082817

[Anonymous No.1082966]

>>1082681
Yeah, my mom didn't look at the descriptions of the book, she just thought, "Ooh! That looks interesting!" and said so to me. She used to do this shit all the time when I was a kid. Hell, she recommended Watership Down when I was 11 and described the book as "being just about bunnies", because she couldn't be bothered to read the description on the back. IT IS VERY MUCH NOT JUST ABOUT BUNNIES, and she was shocked when I told her so.

[Anonymous No.1082980]

I read it to my mom and she cried. That's the only reason I remember.

[Anonymous No.1083064]

I loved Jack London when I was a kid - It's a miracle I didn't grow up a furry.

[Anonymous No.1083078]

I hope they make an awesome movie out of this one day. But with hand drawn animation and great voice acting.

Also, inb4 Hatchet

[Anonymous No.1083080]

a book with no colors but some nice illustrations of an animal parade through the woods

I still have it boxed up with some old stuff

[Anonymous No.1083097]

>>1083078
Awww, Poppy

You're still the salt of the world :)

[Anonymous No.1083098]

[Anonymous No.1083101]

The Phantom Tollbooth

[Anonymous No.1083567]

[Anonymous No.1083570]

james and the giant peach or Johnny Tremain

[Anonymous No.1083586]

>>1083570

now that I think of it

[Anonymous No.1083596]

This book was just so amazing. I happened to find it with nobody to tend to it at the park near my house. Lost it though... Such a good read.

>>1082643
Yes! :)
So good! :)

[Anonymous No.1083599]

The Hobbit

[Anonymous No.1083612]

It would have been in the first grade, I know that much. I remember getting a proper book about a kid exploring a cave in search of gold that was hardbound, thick and had no pictures. I think I read Henry and Ribsey around then and was comfortable with reading non-picture books, but the first? Dunno.

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[Anonymous No.1083618]

>>1083078
Ughhh I read the sequel to Poppy before I read Poppy because I didn't know.
So I read when her boyfriend or whatever got eaten and I was like wtffff. Then I tried to read Poppy when I found it but I just couldn't do it because her boyfriend was still alive and it was heartbreaking ; ;

Anyway this Bailey School Kids book was the first book I read on my own. I think I just got out of kindergarten and my dad was like "that book is too big it has chapters can you even read it" and then i blew his face off and so I read that shit.

[Anonymous No.1083620]

>>1083567

Hey this was also my first novel! I loved it and feel some kind of deep spiritual connection to it. I talk about it a bunch but no ones read it. Thanks for letting me know that others have too.

[Anonymous No.1083621]

>>1083618
fuck you recaptcha

[Anonymous No.1083628]

Thats called "Where the Red Fern Grows" bro
Thanks for the nostalgia attack btw

[Anonymous No.1083631]

>>1082817
forgot to quote... ur thinking of where the red fern grows

[Anonymous No.1083639]

I remember my mother reading me James & The Giant Peach when I was very little. I think that would probably be my first.

The first non-kids novel I read was This Perfect Day by Ira Levin, I think I first read it when I was 10 or 11. It was my mothers favorite book and to this day it remains one of my favorites as well.

[Anonymous No.1083641]

>>1083620
That's the one with the kid who's homeless or whatever, and he has that weird skill at untying knots, isn't it? I read it in 2nd grade or something.
My first novel I can remember was The Herald-Mage Trilogy. Before that I'd read some kids' books I'm sure, but don't really remember them, I started reading fantasy/sci-fi at a really young age, 6 or 7.

[Anonymous No.1083647]

Robinson Crusoe

Also the first time I pulled an all-nighter

[Anonymous No.1083653]

I can't really remember. :'(
I did read My Father's Dragon over and over though, and that was a great story. ITT: boy who saves and befriends dragon by creatively distracting the various wild animals holding the dragon hostage.

[Anonymous No.1084262]

The Castle in the Attic