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Subject: Your age when you read the first book?

Posted by: debimore
Date: Feb 16 08

I ask this because I ordered the first 3 books from my book club, hoping to get my youngest son to start reading. Instead, I was the one hooked, and my daughter, as well. I finished the last book in September-I'm 43.

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highfells star
I dare say someone else will have been older than I was when I read the first Harry Potter book, but I can top 43! ;-))

I was 50 when I read the first one.

Reply #1. Feb 16 08, 3:06 AM
Eclectic
31 years old (just last year). I thought I was one of the last people to read her books...(I have yet to see any of the movies).

Reply #2. Feb 18 08, 2:38 PM
Cher40 star
I was late 30-something when I read the first one.

It is rather interesting that FT classifies HP in Children's Lit (which I guess it is), but most of us reading it are adults, lol.

Reply #3. Feb 18 08, 5:00 PM
nurseblossom
I was 31 when I first read book 1. I liked to read the books that my children where reading so that we could talk about the story lines and plots.
I have now read and reread all 7 books more times that I care to admit.

Reply #4. Feb 19 08, 6:27 PM
Ringtone1
I was 9 when I first read HP and the PS.

Reply #5. Feb 20 08, 5:00 PM
veronikkamarrz star


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I was 4. I started early, and have not stopped! Winnie the Pooh was my first.

Reply #6. Feb 20 08, 5:13 PM
Silver_Knight star


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I was 27 when I read the first book - on a flight home from Germany. It wasn't until I started talking about it with fellow Americans that I realized that their version was not the Philosopher's Stone but rather the Sorcerer's Stone.

Reply #7. Feb 21 08, 11:53 AM
fungirl111
I read my first HP book when I was in first grade. I finished it in like a week.

Reply #8. Feb 21 08, 12:30 PM
julicat star


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HI Debi , I have always been intrersted in reading from an early age my first books were enid blyton !
I read a lot but cant stand romance or scifi books and have to say not at all interested in harry potter .


Reply #9. Feb 21 08, 1:16 PM
ava_jean
i was about 15. then i was 17 when the first film came out. haha! i pretty much stayed loyal to harry.

Reply #10. Feb 22 08, 11:00 AM
JonLikeSwim
When I was 4 my cousin came over from Chicago and gave me the newest book out at the time: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Needless to say I was more into Barney, Sesame Street, and Babe and Ferdinand than Harry Potter, so I'd say the first book I read was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in the 1st grade. It was pretty darn good!

Reply #11. Mar 03 08, 6:33 PM
RioBR
Well, I read my first nook when I was only 11 and it was a novel. DidnĀ“t understand much, but it was a good reading. But, about Harry Potter, well, I read one and it was last year. I was 35 years old.

Reply #12. Mar 03 08, 6:43 PM
HarryPotter257
I was 12 when I read the book. I got hooked because I read the seventh one first.

Reply #13. Mar 09 08, 9:38 AM
Joybaby


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I can probably top everyone, I was 63 when I read the first Harry Potter, when was when the grandchildren started reading them, I have read every one of them more than once and wish there were more.

Reply #14. Mar 09 08, 10:02 AM
GuiseleyWitch star
I was 25 when I picked up the first one. I'm glad I did!

Reply #15. Mar 09 08, 10:48 AM
TheAtwood4155
what year did the first one come out?

cuz ive been reading them since then.....i got each book the exact day it came out i was so interested in the series.....

Reply #16. Mar 15 08, 11:32 PM
fabulosity20
I was in fourth grade and read the goblet of fire and I got so caught up in it that I read it in two days. I guess thats why I've been in PROBE language arts ever since. :)

Reply #17. Mar 16 08, 4:38 PM
sre
i read this book when i was 12 which is many years back. I am 25 now.

Reply #18. Mar 22 08, 7:24 AM
scruffbags star
I read the first Harry Potter book 2 years ago and have now read all of them at least twice(some more) and I have all the films on video and dvd.

Reply #19. Apr 02 08, 9:46 AM
jmatt13 star
I was 30 something or other for the first one....39 for the last (it was a birthday present)

Reply #20. Apr 02 08, 10:42 AM


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