I think I was \~10 years old when I visited our local library and I found Robert E. Howards Conan by accident. It had this cool cover of a barbaric swordsman on a snow covered mountain, it felt dangerous and forbidden for me back then. Sure there had been some books before that but that silly Sword & Sorcery book was the first one that I picked up by myself.
I’ve re-read these stories as an adult for nostalgia’s sake, and while they are still entertaining, I don’t consider them as the pinnacle of storytelling, lol. As a somewhat natural progression I’ve steered from fantasy to horror themes, Howard changed to Lovecraft and my taste evolved from there.
What is your “coming of (p)age” -story? What was the book that made you a reader?
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by expert-in-life
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I can’t remember not being a reader. The first book I remember falling in love with is *He Went with Marco Polo: A Story of Venice and Cathay*, by Louise Andrews Kent. The second was *The Lord of the Rings*, by J.R.R. Tolkien, and that’s still one of my favorites.
The Alex Rider series, and then Maximum Ride and Other Extreme Sports, ahhhh nostalgia