hello all, i am new, and i apologise if this has been done before.....but what was the first book/series you read that made you fall in love with literature?
i never read as a child if i could help it. i figured i was probably illiterate. then i got to study war poetry at secondary school. and was amazed. and then i found terry pratchett. never looked back since. granted i moved away from the poems of death, but i loved curling up with a book and getting lost in them. as the years past i watched less tv (well, yeah, not like there is much there worth watching) and even my big love of films diminished and now i am content to have a book to get lost in. new worlds to play in and explore. this is in part as reading robert jordans 'wheel of time' was suggested to me last year. my spree of crime novels stopped dead in it's tracks at that point. i am only on book 8 (slow reader) but the enjoyment factor is off the chart. true i will always have a soft spot for star wars novels......may not have bought one in years but they are like a comfort blanket in times of need.

so i wonder, who read what first, what did you all fall for and have your tastes changed over the years?