What was the first book you bought ?

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What was the first book you bought ?

Post by Jolyon Trevelyan »

So what was the first book you bought ?

Or the first book you remember that you bought


I think the first book i bought was End: Cosmic Catastrophe and the Fate of the Universe by Frank Close when i was 13 back in 1996.
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Something by Steven King...Christine or Pet Cemetary (I went through quite a Stephen King phase). Or maybe it was something by Piers Anthony, such as On a Pale Horse (another phase I went through).
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Go ask Alice and PS. your cat is dead....I was 15 years old at the time...now (painfully) 55 years old
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The James Bond books by Ian Fleming. JFK kept talking about how much he liked them.
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It was actually Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone. After I saw the first movie, I was very intrigued to read the books, I saw how many there were and I fell in lobe with every single one. To this day, I read them again. I love anything from Rowling.
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The first one I remember buying is Twilight by Stephenie Meyer... Yes, I have read it 10 times though. :oops:
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The grim tales in French I was ten, and my mother wanted me to perfect my French in reading something appropriate for my age.
But what really got me to read more was pride and prejudice by Jane Austen I purchased it when I was thirteen when I first began to learn English.
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Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn, however I read many books before then that I didn't own.
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I can't remember the exact title, but I'm pretty sure that it was a Star Trek novel, and I was probably about 12 years old. I was what you might call a nerd :lol: :roll: :oops:
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The first book I bought was Harry Potter and Sorcerers Stone when I was like in middle school. I remember how is excited I was to buy my own book.
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The first book I bought was Anne Of The Island by L. M. Montgomery, I was 15 years old! :)
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The first book I bought was Eggs by Robert Spinelli. If I'm being honest I haven't ever read it. My friends and I all bought it at our school book club. It was about friendship, I think. I really can't remember. All I remember about it is its title.

-- 10 Jul 2015, 17:03 --

The first book I bought was Eggs by Robert Spinelli. If I'm being honest I haven't ever read it. My friends and I all bought it at our school book club. It was about friendship, I think. I really can't remember. All I remember about it is its title.
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The first book I remember buying myself was Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, which I added to the collection of books my mom had already bought for me,I was 7 or 8 years old. Good memories :)
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I was 7 and I bought the Harry Potter books. They are what got me into my love for reading!
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Carey Barfield wrote:I was 7 and I bought the Harry Potter books. They are what got me into my love for reading!
Sometimes I wish I could read them again without knowing anything just to experience the magic one more time.
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