For me it was The Hatchet, and I think I was ten.
ok I will go die in a corner now
My parents read it to me as a child, and I learned to read specifically so I could read it for myself.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Most recently, though, what's rekindled my love affair with good novels has been the Terry Pratchett Discworld series, especially the books dealing with the Ankh-Morpork Watch. Also read "Good Omens" that Pratchett did with Neil Gaiman.
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I think I was 6 or 7. Fantasy has been a lifestyle for me since then. 
The Mirror, the Xanthe series, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Illustrated Man..but all those were when I was a teenager. I was already a rabid reader by then.
Dr Suess when I was very young, and still today.
I can't say it was just one book, it was a culmination of things when I was learning to read, and when my parents and grandmother would read to me.
And I read Piers Anthony's "Incarnations of Immortality" series. Kicked ass.
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Roald Dahl.
Ah-ha!
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory was also great 
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Piers Anthony
Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Anne Rice
R.A. Salvatore
Douglas Adams
Harlan Ellison
Clive Barker
Edgar Allen Poe
Argh, to many to list...
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Terry Pratchett - My brother got me onto his work.
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding - It got me reading again after a long time when i was about 14
But when i was much younger i picked up a book in the school library called Dragon's Blood. I can't remember the author but i loved the book so much I read it about twice in primary school and asked my secondary school librarian to get a copy for their library.
I only started Reading Xanth and the like in the last few years. Also, Discworld books by Terry Pratchet are great. And I'm a Clancy addict.
If I didn't rememeber that agony of learning to read at the distressingly slow pace my classmates required, I would think I was born knowing how to read. 
And Roald Dahl, Like, his short stories, such as "Lucky break" And "Piece of Cake"
Really good, btw.
I was 5 at the time
Never had a book that ade me say 'reading rocks!', I've always known that
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The Hobbit.
Didn't you just read that for the first time?
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Vorago wrote this stupid crap:
I've always loved reading... first 'actual' book I read was Stephen King's ItI was 5 at the time
Dude thats way fuct.... Anyways... I was the born reading type too.. My mom read to me alot and i was required to pick up where she left off... I can definately say if you want your kids to be smart read to them at an early age... As for my first "Real" book as in a serious paperback... i read it in the third grade... Cant remember the name but It is about a boy who is enticed by another boy who is floating outside his window to come to the park where there is a wonderful house... Of course as the story required the bow went to the house and discovered to his delight that when at the house everyday was "Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc
... After about 3 days he decides he wants to go see his parents... When he tries to leave he has to pass through a wall of fog... but upon ent3ering loses all sense of diection... and eventually escapes to find that each "Day" he was in the house was a year in the real world... Then things begin to happen =) Anyone know the title of this book? I desperately want to re-read it.
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What book caused you to say "Hey, this reading thing is pretty cool" and how old were you at the time?For me it was The Hatchet, and I think I was ten.
Chronicles of Narnia I was 6.
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D had this to say about Duck Tales:
Didn't you just read that for the first time?
Read it when I was 5.
Lord of the Rings at 10.
Thanks for the un-informed post though, they're getting more and more coherent.
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Gork had this to say about Duck Tales:
Dude thats way fuct.... Anyways... I was the born reading type too.. My mom read to me alot and i was required to pick up where she left off... I can definately say if you want your kids to be smart read to them at an early age... As for my first "Real" book as in a serious paperback... i read it in the third grade... Cant remember the name but It is about a boy who is enticed by another boy who is floating outside his window to come to the park where there is a wonderful house... Of course as the story required the bow went to the house and discovered to his delight that when at the house everyday was "Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc
... After about 3 days he decides he wants to go see his parents... When he tries to leave he has to pass through a wall of fog... but upon ent3ering loses all sense of diection... and eventually escapes to find that each "Day" he was in the house was a year in the real world... Then things begin to happen =) Anyone know the title of this book? I desperately want to re-read it.
That sounds like The Thief of Always by Clive Barker.
I'd have to find my copy and start re-reading it to be sure though.
The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) and The Witches by Dahl.
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Chronicles of Narnia I was 6.
about the same, I think it was hmmm, second grade when I read alla them. But the series that really got me, was David Eddings' the Belgariad, 5 books in 4 days, they consumed my existance, I have now mudded on one of the only 2 eddings based muds for goin on 7 years. heh.
I loved that book. Was the first book I ever read. I still have the entire series in my closet somewhere, heh.
The book that got me into reading... without beind told to read
....
Leck, that book title sounds very familiar to me. But I can't quite place the book.
I've read a lot over the past 20 years. I couldn't name them all. But my favorite young adult author was John Bellairs. He writes about kids in the 50s going through supernatural things, like ghosts, witches, madmen trying to make comets hit the earth using chess sets, cults, possession, etc. They're not really scary. They're young adult, after all. And they're very academic, full of interesting puzzles and facts as the teenagers and their adult friends solve the mysteries.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Gork had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Dude thats way fuct.... Anyways... I was the born reading type too.. My mom read to me alot and i was required to pick up where she left off... I can definately say if you want your kids to be smart read to them at an early age... As for my first "Real" book as in a serious paperback... i read it in the third grade... Cant remember the name but It is about a boy who is enticed by another boy who is floating outside his window to come to the park where there is a wonderful house... Of course as the story required the bow went to the house and discovered to his delight that when at the house everyday was "Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc
... After about 3 days he decides he wants to go see his parents... When he tries to leave he has to pass through a wall of fog... but upon ent3ering loses all sense of diection... and eventually escapes to find that each "Day" he was in the house was a year in the real world... Then things begin to happen =) Anyone know the title of this book? I desperately want to re-read it.
I still have it too... bought it for 50 cents at a flea market
50 cents is big money when you are 5
It's mangled and can seperate into several smaller parts, but it's still functional
Mostly, a few pages have gone missing, heh
