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What's the first book you ever read and how did it affect you? sm

Posted: Aug 13, 2013

"The Ghost of Dibble Hollow" It made me love ghost stories and want to follow the paranormal and I still have a love of it!

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Dick Whittington and his cat - when I was six

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I loved that old tale, read it over and over.

Gosh you'all can remember the first book you ever read - sm

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I cannot remember the first book I ever read, but I remember the first one that affected me was Tom sawyer and Huck Finn. These books were great for my sense of adventure when I was young.

Do you want to know the first book we ever read - or the first book that had an affect on us?

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There is a difference. The first book we read is probably the same all around Dick and Jane. Then we progressed to the Cat in the Hat. The first book I ever read didn't affect me, except that is how we learned to read. Didn't have a choice.

The first book that ever affected me was as I got older I read To Kill a Mockingbird. I wanted to become a lawyer.

The first - grown-upish books

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were Black Beauty, Treasure Island and Tom Sawyer. I used to enjoy reading more, but now don't seem to have the time, and have been spoiled by TV.

Just for yourself - OP - sm - me

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We all had to read those little books in school that had no actual meaning to pass to the next level, I don't count them, but the first book that looked interesting and you wanted to read it and then got into the characters and the story.

I remember - shipwrecked

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I remember reading a series of books about a nurse named Cherry Ames, and, of course, Nancy Drew.

Hmm. If I recall correctly, 101 Dalmations and - Nancy Drew. sm

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One instilled a love of animals, and the other, solving mysteries. BTW, I still have that original 101 Dalmations and a couple ND books (one from the 1940s) that I still occasional read in the summer.

Charlotte's Web - nm

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"Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels". It was - my dad's book as a kid, and he -sm

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passed it along to me as a 4 or 5-year-old, mainly because of the pictures of many exotic places in the world. I learned to read out of that book, and National Geographic magazines, long before I ever saw a "Dick & Jane" book in the first grade!

One of my favorite stories was about the Blue Grotto on the Island of Capri, off the coast of Italy. When I was 26, I got to see it in person, and it was one of my life's best experiences.

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