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At what age did you start reading seriously?
What were your first books?

>> No.17296030

i can't remember ever not reading seriously (whatever that means)
Dr. Seuss?

>> No.17296039

>>17296001
What does reading seriously mean? Taking notes and bothering studying books? Around 27 or something. But I didn't got to any humanities college or anything, I just stumbled upon Adler's book and found that I had more fun 'dissecting' books by myself rather just having lectures about them.

>> No.17296045

>>17296001
I was 19. A girl I was close to made fun of me for not having read any classic lit, so I gave it a try. I think the first book I read was Walden and I loved it a lot

>> No.17296103

>>17296001
At 19 after being a NEET for four years. My first authors were Calvino, Hugo and Grass. I'm still a NEET

>> No.17296132

>>17296001
If you don't count The Very Hungry Caterpiller and shit like that, I used to enjoy reading Goosebumps books as a child.

>> No.17296145

in high school. i checked out some highschoolcore books from the library like Sun Also Rises, Of Mice and Men, and Fountainhead and would read them at lunch and in on the bus

>> No.17296191

Started this year, tried Lolita, Slaughterhouse Five, The Master and Margarita. I couldnt get deep enough to enjoy them. Maybe more luck with other classics, planning on Joyce's Portrait, Steppenwolf and Lord of the Flies. Pretty much trying to grind until it wont feel like a chore.

>> No.17296212

>>17296191
what books have you liked? even if it's Harry Potter or something

>> No.17297143

21. It was because I was browsing /lit/ for a while and I wanted to feel like I was part of /lit/
I started with Moby Dick I think and The Name of the Rose. Oh and with the greeks, of course.

>> No.17297371

19. Started last year and have finished 10 books from my list.

>> No.17297387

>>17296001
Like 1 years old, did your parents teach you nothing?

I honestly pity people who had bad parents, that Molymeme video about "being stranded in the middle of the ocean" is a very fitting analogy for having bad parents.

>> No.17297455

>>17297387
no one reads anymore
and if they do its shit

>> No.17297630

>>17296039
i think op means properly reading a book. i remember when i was 14 i tried reading man in the high castle thinking it was a cool book about nazis but was extremely disappointed it was about trade shit, i read it again at 21 and was able to appreciate it a lot more given the maturity that comes with getting older

>> No.17298355

>>17297630
this. just more invested into it
when I was 14 I read books in like one night but now it takes me longer but I get more out of them.

>> No.17298366

14

I read everything HG Wells and Arthur C Clarke wrote

>> No.17298370

>>17298355
Oh no idea then, OP. But I remember that I got into reading comic books and moved into books. Never had any breaks, besides some years that I was really depressed. So as soon as I learned how to read comic books, probably 6-7 yo.

>> No.17298374

>>17296001
Not embarrassed to admit it. My introduction to "serious" reading was at 14 when I got a collection of Lovecraft stories from the library.

>> No.17298384

>>17298370
And books without pictures, probably around 10.

>> No.17298392

21. For a year I read whatever was hot on goodreads and then understood its all crap. Then read bunch of edgy philosophy stuff along the way I stumbled upon /lit/ two years ago and I've been reading good stuff.

>> No.17298410

>>17296001
My intro to "serious" reading was my older brother showing me Moby Dick at about 13 or 14, before that I just read comics from my school library.

>> No.17299739

>>17296212
Mostly scifi like Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradburry, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson. I would like to think that these authors offer literary value as well, but they arent classics, and I dont want to miss out the biggest literary achievements. Hopefully I can reach a level or find a book which lets me do this.

>> No.17299754

early twenties

bought some carson mccullers stories on a whim because a musician I liked mentioned them and realised I wasn't quite as dumb as I thought (can at least read)

>> No.17299775

>>17296001
Junior year of high school mostly due to my brain saying "hey you used to like reading, maybe give some of that really fancy acclaimed stuff a go" but also wanting to show off to my then gf who had started reading Naked Lunch herself

first books:
Catcher in the Rye
Slaughterhouse 5
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>> No.17299786

lol i don't read

>> No.17299872

high school when i really got into the popular dystopian novels

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>>17296001
As soon as I could read consistently.

>> No.17300033

>>17296001
13 to 14
The Lord of the Rings

>> No.17301369

>>17299786
This

>> No.17301465

>>17296001
16-18 and then again at 25ish

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Honestly? Not till I read F. Gardner's "Horror's Call" series.

>> No.17302319

>>17296001
what does "reading seriously" even mean

>> No.17302870

>>17296001
Around the age of 18, it all began with Crime and Punishment.

>> No.17302907

15
Cien Años de Soledad

>> No.17302929

>>17302319
non-fiction

>> No.17302943

15
after feeling lost at the end of my freshmen year and noticing i gave up reading due to anti-intellectual atmosphere of cringy teenagers I made a conscious decision to read more sophisticated stuff. i then went to the library and picked a book with a famous author and lots of pages. the book was interpretation of dreams by Freud.

>> No.17302998

>>17296001
14. I was into that dull, teenage form of pseudo-philosophic nihilism and watched a School of Life video on Kafka and Camus.I then read the Metamorphis and Outsider

>> No.17303319

>>17296001
Loved reading when I was a kid, assigned English class reading killed my love of it through middle and high school. I hated high school so much and in 12th grade I got myself enrolled in college classes for part of the day but they only actually met twice a week so most of the schoolweek I had to show up for my first class and then I could fuck off for 5 hours until the end of the day, it was during that free time I'd given myself that I became interested in reading and writing. Suttree was the first book I remember really blowing my mind as far as the possibilities of language.

Striving to avoid responsibilities and other external obligations is not easy, but every time I've pulled it off, it has rewarded me. I don't think I've ever learned more than when I was avoiding school.

>> No.17303344

them magic tree house books with the annoying bitch girl and harry potter rip off where they go back in time to various historical events. Man that shit was FIRE. Probably around second grade

>> No.17303353

>>17302929
and what do you call "non-fiction"
is the bible "non-fiction"?

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>>17303353
>is the bible "non-fiction"?
Yes

>> No.17303738

>>17296001
16 when I properly got into philosophy and pretty much what you'd expect, nietzsche, plato, etc then I got into dystopian novels

>> No.17304147

>>17296001
i think 21, i'm 25 now and i have read 83 books, mostly classics and a few non-fiction
Highschool killed reading for me, being forced to read those shitty dry old books from my cunt made me wish for death
>First book was Dune
gotta start light, learn to enjoy it, then learn to learn from it

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>>17303575

>> No.17304560

>>17296001
I was always reading because I didn't have a cell phone or a laptop until I was 14.

As a kid: The Goosebumps books, The Black Lagoon books, The Captain Underpants books, Frog and Toad are Friends, Calvin & Hobbes, The Deptford Mice Trilogy, The Witches, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Giver, The Bible (never finished it), Shonen Jump, Nickelodeon Magazine.

As a teen (14 - 17): 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Lots of Stephen King books, Fahrenheit 451, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Foundation Trilogy, God is not Great, Lots of John Green books, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Will Durant's "History of Philosophy".

The most influential books were Fahrenheit 451, the Foundation Trilogy, The History of Philosophy, God is not Great.

>> No.17305299

I used to love reading when I was younger. My mom used to buy me whatever book i wanted because it encouraged me to read. Then Ms. Claycamp became my teacher. This vile cunt would just make everyone read the whole class time 3 out of 5 days a week so she didn't have to teach. I just remember the reading material was horrible. She also hated men. Any infraction would result in your desk being turned into a isolation cubicle for the rest of the school year. So by mid year half of the classroom was turned into a grade school alcatraz prison hell. No talking or social interaction. At that moment I started to hate reading and women.

Funny enough she moved into my neighborhood years later. I tormented her entire family. I threw rocks at her house at night aiming for your daughter's window. I nigger knocked on her house all of the time. I pissed in her AC unit frequently. I wish I could see her again so I could tell her how much of a piece of shit she was then hate fuck her daughter and never talk to any of them again. I lost 10 years of reading because of her and I'm sure I'm not alone.

>> No.17305760

>>17305299
Holy fucking based.
Did you cause her to move out or did you move out?

>> No.17305850

>>17305760
I moved a few years later so not before then.

>> No.17305867

>>17305299
You didn't lose 10 years of reading because of her lmao, way to absolve yourself of any personal responsibility by blaming a bad experience.

"Oh wow I crashed my car, fuck you inertia I'm never driving again."

>> No.17305951

>>17305867
Do you really think people who live through near-death car wrecks want to drive any more?

>> No.17305972

>>17305951
Being forced to read books you don't like isn't even a hundredth as traumatising as a near death crash - get a grip lad.

>> No.17306000

>>17296001
19. Walden. Until then I would only occasionally read some leftist theory from pdfs on the web or some books I had.

>> No.17306019

>>17305951
>people ... want
Now answer me anon, was it the inertia, or the person who chose never to drive again?

>> No.17306176

>>17305972
Where in my sentence was that even implied you fucking retard? Do YOU even read?

>> No.17306185

>>17306019
Your bullshit arguments are not intelligent. You're not intelligent. Stop pretending to be.

>> No.17306191

>>17296045
>A girl I was close to made fun of me for not having read any classic lit, so I gave it a try.
that's a golden girl. tell us more about her :)

>> No.17306507

>>17303353
>>17303575
The bible is fiction.

>>17305867
You must understand that it's not quite so simple to blame children for how they process things.
That being said, this anon seems pretty fucked up.