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First Novel You Ever Read?

Mar 05, 2010 17:35

Mine was 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'. I can only imagine my eyes just glazed over at entire passages full of unfamiliar words like "infusoria" and "cetaceans", but apparently that didn't matter because I thoroughly enjoyed it. I mean, c'mon, they battled a giant squid and visited Atlantis! I remember reaching the end and thinking "I ( Read more... )

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jongibbs March 5 2010, 12:23:42 UTC

Aside from kids' books, I'd have to say The Hobbit, when I was about nine.

scriitor March 5 2010, 20:48:00 UTC

Ah yes, a good'un and a good pick, but one I didn't get to till my mid 20s.

I read Rings first.

jongibbs March 5 2010, 23:27:24 UTC

I read that when I was eleven (my eldest brother is six years older than me and I used to read a lot of his books).

rose_lemberg May 14 2010, 20:18:02 UTC

I think my first 'real' novel must have been the Beetle in the Anthill, a Russian SF masterpiece by the brothers Strugatskii. I read it at age 8, and although I did not understand much of it, it had a profound influence upon me. It is a deeply disturbing and philosophical work, to which I still keep returning.

scriitor May 14 2010, 20:45:11 UTC

The "Noon Universe". I've not heard of these books before. Fascinating.

rose_lemberg May 14 2010, 20:53:11 UTC

The novel that started it all, "Noon: 22th century", was still from their Utopian period. In "Anthill" and "Waves Extinguish the Wind", they are entering their later period and edging into dysthopia, and these two novels are the strongest in the Noon universe.