/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19689700]

What book got you into reading anon? What did you like about it?

Be honest.

For me it was a national YA novel I read at 17 named "Bad Vibes" by Albert Fuguet, it was about an upper class kid who used to do shit like drugs and fuck a bunch of girls and was usually a cunt.

He was really cool to me at the time since I was a lonely boring virgin (as I still am today).
I read the book twice in the same year, something I never did before unless I has a test.
There were lots of dialogue with witty sentences, which were really attractive to me over walls of paragraphs.

In retrospective the book was cringy as fuck, last year I bought a more recent novel by Fuguet named Sweat and his writing style is that of a mid 40's male who has warped perceptions about the youth, it hasn't evolved a bit and it's really pathetic honestly, but I'll forever owe him getting me into reading as an actual hobby instead of just schoolwork

[Anonymous No.19689705]

>>19689700
Not a book, but I'll forever be ashamed that Jordan Peterson convinced me to start reading

[Anonymous No.19689708]

>>19689700
A Chilean provincial probably in the pay of the CIA

[Anonymous No.19689725]

I started serial-reading because the school I was in was very cliquish and I didn't have any friends - this was sixth grade middle school, so the first year in a new district. I also came from a troubled background, was also considered to be different, as instead of doing what was popular, I did my own thing. I was called a hippie for liking Pink Floyd.

I read in fourth grade about a logic book, which I can't remember the title. I read the Princess Diaries in fifth among some other books which weren't memorable . The first series I really liked was the Redwall series in sixth grade.

[Anonymous No.19689734]

>>19689700
being a physics grad student means you usually go through at least two ~400 page books in a semester. Reading becomes almost like breathing at that point.

[Anonymous No.19689740]

I read The Count of Monte Cristo at the age of 15 and couldn't believe how good it was. I realized fiction spreads beyond shitty films from the last 3 decades.

[Anonymous No.19689877]

This was my first non-picture book
I can’t for the life of me remember how I got it or why I picked this one
Imagine gang warfare, birds, and a big alpha bird with a giant sword

[Anonymous No.19690413]

>>19689705
How?

[Anonymous No.19690622]

>>19689700
It's hard to remember exactly which book because I've liked reading since I was very young, but Deltora Quest, The Hobbit, and Ergaon were all major ones I remember loving during early primary school. Percy Jackson is another major one but I'm pretty sure I read them after the aforementioned books, in late primary or early secondary. Looking back on them now,
>Deltora Quest is still a fantastic children's series
>The Hobbit is still a fantastic book in general
>Eragon is total fucking dogshit
>Percy Jackson is still a fantastic middle grade series
There are of course many more books than those which may have been the one to really get me into it but I don't want to just list everything I can remember.

[Anonymous No.19690647]

>>19689877
I believe the author was only a teenager - 14 or 15 - when it was published - I remember reading about it in one of my children's magazines when it came out.

[Anonymous No.19690657]

>>19690647
looking it up, she was even younger - fucking 12.

Man. I gotta write this damn book.

[Anonymous No.19690661]

>>19689700
Probably Mossflower. I must have read my copy at least five times

[Anonymous No.19690670]

Probably Mossflower. I must have read my tiny little dick all the way up your moms pussy whiteboi