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Who got you into reading /lit/?

For me it was my Dad, he used to read stories from history - Khan, Romans, Greeks etc. - to me every night before bed.

>tfw hes the main reason I read history and books today
>tfw he has a full collection of books at home that I can read anytime
>tfw I realise he never had the advantage I had because his Father died when he was seven

>> No.5153547

>>5153546
>Who got you into reading /lit/?

MYSELF.

>> No.5153552

>>5153547
surely you had a role model who influenced you

>> No.5153561

>>5153552

HOW DOES ONE READING FOR PLEASURE RELATE TO ONE HAVING A "ROLE MODEL"?

>> No.5153563

>>5153561
meh, whatever floats your boat i spose

>> No.5153573

>>5153563

JUST ADMIT THAT YOU COMMITTED A LOGICAL FALLACY.

>> No.5153577

>>5153546
I guess it was my mom. She used to read to me all the time (mostly US history, I think). It's weird though - now that I'm an adult and we can read the same things, we don't really talk about reading much anymore.

>> No.5153579

>>5153547
>>5153561
>>5153573
hide and move along

>> No.5153582

>>5153547
>>5153561
>>5153573
lol

>OP status: neutralized

>> No.5153586

>>5153546
bump

>> No.5153592

>>5153586
REI publicly embarrassed you, your thread is uncomfortable now so nobody will post in it. Delete it.

>> No.5153615

>>5153592
I'm neither the OP nor the one who talked with REI. I just like this thread (I guess that was OP?)

>> No.5153631

My onee-chan used to read me DFW and HP fanfiction when I was little.

>> No.5153696

nobody. my mother reads but she reads terrible crime and legal thrillers. i started reading because i realized i was (and still am) super stupid, and i thought reading would fix that.

i'm still really dumb but i know some stories now.

>> No.5153806

OP here, granted I've been made a fool of, can we continue with the thread now?

>> No.5154384

my dad. I remember him giving me some fantasy books and saying, "Go have an adventure." I now own all his books. it's kinda sad.

>> No.5154389

I lived next to a library and taught myself how to read around 3 or 4. My mom had a bunch of medical textbooks that I used to read as well. I think my first adult book was Jurassic Park which I read when I was either 8 or 9.

>> No.5154400

I guess I have my entire family to thank for that. Living in the middle of nowhere with no other children around, no television, no internet, parents who both worked long hours and didn't interact with us anyway, and my brother for violently refusing to have anything to do with me. Not a lot else to do but sit, read and listen to the rain.

>> No.5154412

My dad, I guess. My friends and my mom always talked about how fabulous reading was, but they always recommended shit like Harry Potter. I didn't find out that I actually liked reading until my dad had me read The Sirens of Titan.

>> No.5154677

>>5153546
My mother. My father was always away for work but my mother used to stop at the bookstore regularly as far back as I can remember and have me pick out one or two or three things. Started out with things lime Animorphs, The Boxcar Children, and Goosebumps when I was really young. By the time I hit 7 or 8 she started compelling me to choose at least one from the Great Illustrates Classics. She picked out the first one for me, the Last of the Mohicans which I fucking hated. Then I selected Oliver Twist the next time and my love for true literature was born.

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5154718

Both of my parents, really. I was homeschooled so I spent a lot of time by myself and my mother would always buy me books when we went to the bookstore. I'd go with my dad to business meetings in this local cafe and they had a few Calvin and Hobbes books that I'd sit there and read for hours. For Christmas one year my parents bought me the huge complete Calvin and Hobbes collection and I read through it at least twice.

Now there's a wall in my parent's house lined with all the YA fiction, and horror books that I used to read.

>> No.5154723

TV and movies taught me that books = smart and since I was made fun of a lot in school, I turned to appearing smart as a last refuge.

>> No.5155082

>>5154677
Multiple typos, but I am posting while driving around town working my illustrious food delivery job so proofreading kind of takes a backseat (horrible pun totally intended).