What turned you on to reading?

I have never been big on tv and growing up the sidewalks were rolled up at dusk so what else did you have to do but read.

Well growing up my whole family read. My father always had his nose in a book. My brother read me "The Hobbit" when I was little and I loved reading. That is until one teacher turned me off reading. Yes a teacher. I read "The Hobbit" myself for a my third grade book report. I went to do the paper and the teacher told me I could not use it. The book was too complex for me and I had to pick somehting else. That turned me off reading for a long time. When I switched schools half way through fifth grade the new teacher I had read to us every day after lunch. She turned me back on to reading. I have known some who don't like reading but usually it's because they haven't found the right books. They need to find ones that are about their interests. I've turned a lot of people onto reading by finding out what they like and showing them books that deal with that. Also with reading the more you read the faster and easier it gets.

My mom used to read to me all the time when I was little and now I read to my kids.

Mr. Herigan, my 4th grade English teacher. I hated to read before that; now I love it.

Just my imagination and curiosity - always wanting to learn more about whatever was of interest to me. I was never big on TV because it felt too passive and never left much room for deep thought. But reading really gives me a lot of inspiration and deep thought.

I've been reading since I've learned how to. I love it. I love how it transports me into a whole other world that I can't reach unless I read. It isn't made read until I read the words. I think the biggest problem with reading today is that kids are so used to instant gratification with TV and movies, that they just aren't used to having to use their imaginations. They're used to being shown what everything looks like.

I started reading to escape the real world of my rotten childhood. It allowed me to see different worlds. I love reading as much as I love writing. Maybe people just don't take the time to enjoy the written word. A lot of times I will take a book down to the stream at the bottom of our yard and read to my hearts' content. I can spend the whole day down there if the book is good enough.

I got bored a lot as a child. TV wasn't too exciting, so books filled up a lot of time. When I got into high school, I took a class titled "Creative Reading" We chose books for a list (about 150 different titles and degrees of difficulty) to read. That turned me on to some classics. Jules Verne soon became my favorite classical writer--after reading "Around the World in 80 Days." (Still one of my favorite books!) In my grown-up world, I'm still bored watcing TV, and spend time on the computer (myLot) or reading a book. It's such a good life!!! LOL!! Great topic!!

When I was a little girl, my mother would take me to the library to get a book; My father was very well read; He would read some great biographies that are still in our library today though now he doesn't read due to illness. When I got older, I would go to the library myself and check books out. I do it to this day; I am a part of various online book swap groups. I frequent the library and in different book sending clubs. My siblings read as well; My brother who is in the entertainment world has some great selections; My late sister as well;

I don't know why I was turned on to reading but my mother said when I came home from my first day of Kindergarten I was sad, when she aksed me why I was sad I replied, "I didn't learn how to read". I guess I expected it to come so easy. My earliest memories of reading was at the breakfast table. Every morning the first thing I would do is go get a bowl of cereal, after placing it on the table I would immediately go get a book to read, even if I had read it a million times before. My mom always complained that it took me forever to get ready for school in the morning because I would get so engrossed in the book. I got in trouble at school, too, for bringing a book to read. Even now, I am 30 years old with three kids, I run my own farm, plus take care of my house but I am still reading almost every day. Trouble is, when I sit down to read, I'm there for a couple of hours at least!

i have no idea what got me to love reading. my mom and dad never read to me when i was small. i do remember being in first grade and asking my mom to take me to the library all the time. she always took me, and i enjoyed spending so much time over there. it just seemed like i could read about anything and imagine it the way i wanted to. i hope that my kids like to read as they get older. i dont understand why there are so many people who dont enjoy reading. they make it seem like a chore that is to be dreaded. they just dont understand wht they are missing.

I totally agree with you, i like reading and make it an important thing of my life. I started reading when i was a little kid, but reall love of books shaped in the middle school, where i met the most important teacher of my life. She was so kind a ma'am that she tought us the way of life with those beautiful articles she picked for us, sentence by sentence. I started to realize that the language is somthing magic, which could carry so many things, love, life, all the world! I have been keeping reading these years, I do believe i will continue for future. And I'd like to make friends with you who love reading;)

Good topic. My parents too bought me lots of books when I was young and I loved reading them. My grandmother was a great story teller. I loved reading comics too. I was quite good at drawing so I always liked to read books with pictures when I was small. Then I stared writing my own stories and comics. Nothing serious. Not professional by any means just for fun. It was one of favourite hobbies when I was small. It brings me lots of memories when I look at them now. I wrote my own spiderman comics and was very fond of superheroes at that time. I was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Australia 3 years back. So have read many books in my mother tongue as well as English. These days I read newspapers, articles and short stories. I don't read much novels as I used to.

Well I think it stems from the tv available to me when I was growing up. There were two channels we constantly had. Three on a really good day. They played nothing but news and soap operas. So tv wasn't overly interesting to me. Books were easy to get a hold of and I'd always been a good reader.

I love reading very much. I have started to read newspaper since I was 5 years old. It's the cartoon in the paper that I read not the news. I don't know why people don't like to read. Until today, I will read before I go to bed, I even sometimes read until I fall asleep. I don't really care what to read, sometime books, magazine or even comics. As long as I read, I'm happy.

when i was a kid i only enjoy reading comics and cartoon books like peanuts, spy vs. spy, archie. i only became serious in rdg when i was in college & a classmate handed me a perry mason pocketbook to kill time. that's when i've started rdg pocketbooks which i consider a bore before

I've always enjoyed reading for as long as I can remember. My parents are into reading, and I guess I just picked up on that. I can't remember a day that went by they I didn't have my nose stuck in a book when I got home from school. We lived in the middle of nowhere on a farm, and reading was my way of traveling and learning about other places.

My mom taught me the love of reading. She would read to me when I was younger and encouraged me to read as I grew older. She never allowed me to mistreat a book. She would say to me that I would never treat a friend that way and that books are my friends. She never allowed me to ear mark a book. She made sure I had bookmarks to mark the place where I stopped reading. She often told me that I could sit right in a chair at home and go all over the world and learn about different places. Also about the fact the information that I could learn from books. My love of reading comes from my mom and I even to this day do not mistreat a book.

i started at the age of 8.Before that my granny used to read lot of story books and narrated them to me.gradually i got the habit of reading many types of books like stories,.g.k, biographies,ancient stories...

I didn't always like reading. When I was younger, I loathed having to read with a passion. By grade two I still didn't know how to read basic words. Fortunately, by the time grade four rolled around, my teacher noticed that I needed improvement in my writing skills. She gave me a set of books to read called, "The Borrowers." I'm glad she did. After reading through the series, I couldn't stop reading. I read in the morning, at night, when I was supposed to sleep, you name it. Without the help of my concerned teacher, I would still be just about illiterate. My passion for reading has carried on with me until today. As a result of this, my writing skills have improved drastically. I regret not being able to enjoy reading earlier but it's better late than never.