What’s the first book you remember loving?
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The cat was a bit of an asshole, but figured out how to fit in.
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The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Edit: by Douglas Adams (yeah, like that addition was needed)
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
As crazy as what we've discovered with physics and consciousness in the last two years, I legitimately think there may be something to it.
Like, maybe the scientific pursuit of measuring the tiniest possible details has a butterfly effect that makes everything in a level we notice completely fucking insane.
Like how Google maps when you zoom in it replaces all the pixels. Maybe zooming in anywhere causes a snowball effect where everything everywhere suddenly needs to also be determined at that level, and that's why shit at the "human level" isn't running right.
There's so much in those books that sound so stupid in the surface, but honestly aren't as far fet he'd as they initially seem.
Gives me Philip K Dick vibes but with some of the best comedic writing ever instead of meth induced paranoia like Dick.
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The Mysterious Benedict Society was my childhood. I swear I read the whole series like 8 times. Got me into mystery novels and I've loved them ever since.
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The Magician's Nephew
this was my first introduction to the concept of multiple realities and it blew my little 7 year old mind -
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The one that really struck me was "Starstreak: Stories from space!" It was a collection of short sci-fi stories including The Haunted Spacesuit and Who Goes There.
Turned me into a lifelong SF reader.
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The cat was a bit of an asshole, but figured out how to fit in.
I really like the cover
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Theres A Monster At the End of This Book
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The first book I really enjoyed and got into after high school (as in it wasn't a required reading) was The Hunger Games.
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The Magician's Nephew
this was my first introduction to the concept of multiple realities and it blew my little 7 year old mindYESSS. I loved this as a kid and I was so angry it didn't get a movie adaptation. I think a lot about how the ground made everything grow because the world was new. I still think about the "you can't unring the bell" thing.
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I felt personally offended when my teenage son was like yeah it's OK.
So that's why you gave him up for adoption
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I got really stuck into the Artemis Foul books as a teen. I always thought they'd make a great TV series.
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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen hit me at the right time as a kid.
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The Eye of the World, the first book in the Wheel of Time series. There were other books I really liked prior to that, but I distinctly remember reading that one on a long road trip I was stuck on with my parents, and being just completely enthralled by it. Made a 14 hour car ride feel like nothing.
The series ultimately led to discovering Brandon Sanderson as an author (when he took over for the last 3 books in the series), which led to a lot more really memorable, beloved reads, so that's a nice added bonus.
The climax of the eye of the world was incredible, I've never continued on in the series, is it worth it?
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So you want to be a wizard by Diane Duane.
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YESSS. I loved this as a kid and I was so angry it didn't get a movie adaptation. I think a lot about how the ground made everything grow because the world was new. I still think about the "you can't unring the bell" thing.
the concept of the Deplorable Word spell that kills every living thing except the caster was also terrifying and amazing to me. Took a few years to realize it was probably a metaphor for nuclear weapons
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Theres A Monster At the End of This Book
One of my earliest favorites too.
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The Eye of the World, the first book in the Wheel of Time series. There were other books I really liked prior to that, but I distinctly remember reading that one on a long road trip I was stuck on with my parents, and being just completely enthralled by it. Made a 14 hour car ride feel like nothing.
The series ultimately led to discovering Brandon Sanderson as an author (when he took over for the last 3 books in the series), which led to a lot more really memorable, beloved reads, so that's a nice added bonus.
I really enjoyed Eye of the World, and I faithfully read the next seven or eight books when they came out.
But I tried to read it again a few years ago and it didn't keep my interest.
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The climax of the eye of the world was incredible, I've never continued on in the series, is it worth it?
The next few books are great, but around the middle of the series it really drug for me. There's a huge number of characters to keep track of and a lot of simultaneous storylines going on, and while some of them are great, some of them are rather dry, and the dry ones always seem to get brought up right when the good ones are reaching a climax. Once you get past those few books, it gets good again, and Brandon Sanderson's books at the end are excellent.
If you're in the mood for a fantasy epic (with all the baggage that entails), it's worth the read. There's also audio books of the whole series and the readers are excellent.
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The climax of the eye of the world was incredible, I've never continued on in the series, is it worth it?
I'm a bit over halfway through the series right now, burning through them at a book every week or two.
The series suffers from sprawl. There are 3-4 'a-plots' at any one time, which can be a bit frustrating. I'm loving them though.
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My earliest remembered favorite is The Little Red Car by Bernice Orawski. Cute little kids book with lovely illustrations about a car having the worst day of its life.
