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First Book You Ever Read 18:45 - Aug 31 with 1905 views

Okay, Janet and John white book definitely not allowed. For the more pretentious..Das Kapital, Beyond Good and Evil, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. No no because you will be fibbing :)
Here's mine. The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway. Brilliant short novel and still resonates with me now.

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onehunglow

Pilgrims Progress

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Sirjohnalot

Something like Enid Blyton or Roald Dahl. Faraway Tree, Secret 7, Famous Five or George’s Marvelous Medicine. Probably Faraway Tree

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Catullus

There wee a few I had to read in school,but the first voluntarily was, I think, The Hobbit, then quickly onto LOTR.

In school, fahrenheit 451.

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First Book You Ever Read on 19:05 - Aug 31 with 1878 views

Togg

First Book You Ever Read on 18:47 - Aug 31 by onehunglow
Pilgrims Progress

John Bunyon. One of my first memories of the late 60's is the hymn in assembly. I don't know what it is (and I'm very open minded to any belief) but I always felt uncomfortable with organised religion. Whether that was school, Sunday School or just going to Church. Luckily my late mother a Roman Catholic, my dad Chapel never forced anything on us. My parents married at the Registry Office and all the kids Christened in Chapel.
We were just brought up to be good people and work hard, no matter what you do for a living.

First Book You Ever Read on 19:07 - Aug 31 with 1874 views

union_jack

First Book You Ever Read on 19:05 - Aug 31 by Togg

SS-GB by Len Deighton
Tom Brown’s School Days
Papillon
These were some of the first I read.

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Togg

First Book You Ever Read on 19:01 - Aug 31 by Sirjohnalot
Something like Enid Blyton or Roald Dahl. Faraway Tree, Secret 7, Famous Five or George’s Marvelous Medicine. Probably Faraway Tree

I remember Brer Rabbit being read to us in the Infants and thinking even then...what the fork that was all about

First Book You Ever Read on 19:10 - Aug 31 with 1859 views

Togg

First Book You Ever Read on 19:02 - Aug 31 by Catullus
There wee a few I had to read in school,but the first voluntarily was, I think, The Hobbit, then quickly onto LOTR. In school, fahrenheit 451. [Post edited 31 Aug 2022 19:09]

Great book but struggled with Lord of the Rings who many I know loved.

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Togg

First Book You Ever Read on 19:07 - Aug 31 by union_jack
SS-GB by Len Deighton Tom Brown’s School Days Papillon These were some of the first I read.

I read Papillon when I was 23. Some good few years back. Absolutely loved it , what a great novel. I obviously saw the film first which was great but the novel is nearly always better.

First Book You Ever Read on 19:21 - Aug 31 with 1842 views

Togg

Novels and short stories written are normally always better. Some years back and I am a massive fan of a lot of Stephen King but not all, I read 'Different Seasons ' I think it was four short stories. One was the Body, which became the film Stand By Me. Apt Pupil... wow!! about a boy who recognises an ex Nazi on the bus in the US... absolutely brilliant and Rita Heywood and the Shawshank Redemption.Which became Shawshank Redemption. The story was great but the film was an absolute classic! That was one of the exceptions to the rule.

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onehunglow

First Book You Ever Read on 19:05 - Aug 31 by Togg

You were well blessed

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Boundy

Biggles Captain WE John are the ones I remember the most, along with Janet & John , I was an avid reader as a child with topics much varied from autobiographies and history my favourites

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First Book You Ever Read on 19:51 - Aug 31 with 1822 views

YrAlarch

Shadow the Sheep Dog Enid Blyton

First Book You Ever Read on 19:59 - Aug 31 with 1820 views

Lohengrin

My very first book would have been Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, at a very young age, apparently. After that, and I can remember the thrill of discovery all these decades later, would have been working my way through the old boy next door’s leather bound Jack London collection.

I’ve been an obsessive, voracious reader all my life; fanatical, really.

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lifelong

The junior book of British birds.

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britferry

Peter & Jane, I was about 4

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Treforys_Jack

The first grown up books I'd have read were my father's Sven Hassel collection, bit of an eye opener for a youngish lad. A bit of a step up from the secret seven or famous five which was my usual fayre at the time.

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majorraglan

Probably an Enid Blyton book, most likely the Valley of Adventure which was one of fathers old books. Also had some of the famous five books.

In terms of adult books, I can remember reading some Sven Hassle books when I was about 13.

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union_jack

First Book You Ever Read on 20:39 - Aug 31 by lifelong
The junior book of British birds.

Wow, they wouldn’t get away with publishing that these daysðŸ˜‚

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First Book You Ever Read on 10:24 - Sep 1 with 1681 views

Sirjohnalot

First Book You Ever Read on 10:19 - Sep 1 by union_jack
Wow, they wouldn’t get away with publishing that these daysðŸ˜‚

You're on fire today.

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YrAlarch

First Book You Ever Read on 10:19 - Sep 1 by union_jack
Wow, they wouldn’t get away with publishing that these daysðŸ˜‚

Brilliant!

First Book You Ever Read on 12:41 - Sep 1 with 1638 views

shandyjack

To kill a mockingbird always sticks out in my memories.

Got ono the LOTR and Hobbit early on to.

Recently i've been binge reading The Jack Reacher books, 8 books deep so far, many more to go

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