Which author started it all for you?

[Lady Countryrose]

I think it was Charles Dickins. It was poetry on the page.

[etherealxadj]

Reading has always been a passion of mine. I've been reading since I was small. I think the book "Bleed Like Me," is the first book that has really gotten to me. The author is C. Desir I recommend it highly. It's very different, but that's the best part.

[ebeth]

The author who started it all for me is not alive today. The first series of books I read when I was younger was the Little House on the Prarie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I could not put those down. I also think that is what started for me for enjoying reading more of the thicker books and series. They keep going and going.

[Whos_that20]

A few for me.I liked reading the Tarzan books by Edgar Rice Burroughs.The first book was long winded at first,but after I got past the first part of the book it was very interesting.I got caught up in them but had to stop after I couldn't find a book in the series and I didn`t wanna skip any because I would easily be lost.I also liked C.S. Lewis and how he painted whole other worlds in his books which sucked me in.Dean Koontz books I could not put down once I started reading them .My only dissapointment with his books are that they seem to be set in California,but I was used to reading books about other worlds by the time I got to him .

[Sanda Milinkovic]

According to my mum, the first book I laid my hands on was Bambi, when I was five, from Disney. After that, when I was around eight or nine, I got completely hooked up on the series "The Famous Five". Those were children's adventure novels written by Enid Blyton. I think she got me. After that, I started to write some adventures by myself. Her style was easy for me in that age to read. Her novels were light and they had a great message about friendship. Something that we are all looking for. Later when I was much older, I bought some of those books. Now they are on a shelf reminding me how a book can have a great impact on you.

[LaceyKHarrison]

Karen Kingsbury!

I have always somewhat enjoyed reading but never really made much time for it. When I was pregnant with my first child, I was put on bed rest for a couple of weeks and somebody loaned me Redemption by Karen Kingsbury. I spent the last few weeks of my pregnancy and my maternity leave reading all of her Baxter Family series. Once I completed that series, I could not wait to get my hands on her other books as well. My love for books quickly grew and I have pretty much had some type of book going ever since then.

[teres_major]

I have always loved reading even as a child. I remember being given a box of books(crossword books, novels, etc) as a child by my godfather and till that it has remained my best gift ever.
I got hooked into reading by Enid blyton with famous five series, then Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle with sherlock Holmes.

[SerendipityThree]

There was a time when I read a lot of romance novels. Sidney Sheldon was a favorite that got me going. As time passed, my interests changed, I found myself reading motivational and self improvement leadership type of books by authors such as Norman Vince Peale, Stephen Covey and Napoleon Hill.

[Abby131]

Alyson Noel started it all for me. When I discovered her books, I fell in love. I have always enjoyed reading since I was a small child, but I really got into it after I picked up Noel's books. After that, it just kept rolling. I would find book after book I would want to read. Now I have more books on my to read list than I can count!

[PacerMac88]

J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, everyone else hated reading it in English class.

[BookWormBri]

Definitely SE Hinton! The outsiders was the first book I read independent from school. I laughed and cried, then read every other book she wrote! I will say, though The outsiders was definitely the best of them and they were all very similar, I enjoyed them and began my treck through the lovely world of books.

[sandra tomko]

As a young girl, I couldn't read books by Judy Blume fast enough. I would always wait for a new arrival to come out and use my allowance to be the first one to buy it and read it.

[SarahNewtown]

I have loved to read since childhood. I don't remember any particular author that started my childhood reading journey. I just loved books. However, as a juvenile, I discovered Harry Potter and that did it for me. So you could say J.K. Rowling began my reading fanaticism.

[Chris Manning]

The book that's had the biggest impact on me (so far) and has, consequently, turned me into a life-long reader is "Roots" by Alex Haley. I think I read it when I was 17 or 18, and I finished it in three or four days. It was one those books. Of course, I'd read books for school and for enjoyment, but this one was different. It not only transported me to a different place, but it hit me emotionally as well, right in the gut. I'd never encountered that in a book before and I'm not sure I have since (at least not to that level). I've been a reading fanatic ever since. So, thank you very much Mr. Haley (wherever you are).

[AnitaCox]

At first, it was John Grisham...but then I felt like I was reading the same book over and over. Now I'm a huge David Baldacci fan.