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The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Edit: by Douglas Adams (yeah, like that addition was needed)
I felt personally offended when my teenage son was like yeah it’s OK.
So that’s why you gave him up for adoption ;)
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.
+1
The Hobbit.
First “real” book I read at like 10 or 11 and I just went straight the the whole series after.
I still remember turning the page to start Chapter 5.
Theres A Monster At the End of This Book
One of my earliest favorites too.
A Wrinkle in Time.
The cat was a bit of an asshole, but figured out how to fit in.
I really like the cover :) So so so cute :)
Pickles, aka the fire cat, is born homelss and lives in a barrel before being adopted by a nice lady and then eventually joining the fire department and improving himself to become a better cat.
Here is Pickles being an asshole by chasing a kitten up a tree, because that is something cats do.
If I remember right Pickles wasn’t able to get down either and had to be rescued by the firemen. It leads to his journey to learn how to be nicer to other cats and improve himself.
😀
Picking just one book is really unfair as I fell in love with various books at different times of my life.
But to answer your question, the very first book I remember falling in love with as a little kid is… two books. Jules Verne ‘Michel Strogoff’, and Conan Doyle’s ‘The Lost World’ which I read in French back then as ‘Le monde perdu’.
But I insist, this is absolutely unfair to the many other books I’ve loved and still love to this very day :p
Everyone has always one favourite… always :)
Elfstones of Shannara
Richard Scarry’s “What do people do all day” is such a fun book that even now I wish I had again just to flip through the pages and see the intricacies of the drawings
Hitchhikers Guide, my mom got me to read it really young. I was maybe 8.
Before that, Zoobooks obviously
I got really stuck into the Artemis Foul books as a teen. I always thought they’d make a great TV series.
Hatchet
The first of the Dragonlance books. I loved that trilogy so much as a kid. With Raistlin and Caramon, Tika, and Riverwind, Goldmoon… Thirty years later I still remember it.
Cujo
When I was very young, 10 or under, there was a book I read that I remember almost nothing about, just that there was a kid who found or built a bunch of robots to do various things. The only robot I really remember is the one made to row a boat, named (appropriately) Row-bot. It had a bell built in that would ring every time it made a stroke. At the end of the book all the robots have to leave the boy, and the last scene is him watching them rowing away and hearing the bell fade into the mist. That I even remember any of the book tells me I really liked it.
Besides that, I was gifted a copy of Ender’s Game for my 15th or 16th birthday. I really loved it and it was the first time I can remember being really blown away by a plot twist.
Edit: The first book may be Andy Buckram’s Tin Men.
The first book I really enjoyed and got into after high school (as in it wasn’t a required reading) was The Hunger Games.
If you enjoyed The Hunger Games, check out the author’s other series “The Underland Chronicles”. It’s a slightly younger audience than The Hunger Games, but it also tackles heavy themes. I love both.
The Black Cauldron Series.
By Lloyd Alexander? If so, those were great! I remember reading those to keep me busy at my older sister’s girl scout meetings.
I hadn’t thought about it, but those may have been the first books I absolutely adored.
After that, I got into Perry Rhodan, a German science fiction serial that has been published weekly since 1961 (yes, they are past issue #3,300 now).
They translated about 140 into English, and I had every one, hunting through used book shope to complete my collection.
I have gone back to read some, and at least the early ones really were abysmal in writing, plotting and early 1960s prejudices. At the time, the scope of the space opera – and the fact that there were so many of them – thrilled me.
