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.
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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rosmarinus44 
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I think I was about 39/40 when I discovered Harry Potter. Reply #61. May 04 09, 11:52 PM |
dude_aze
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I was actually 14 when i saw Sorcerers Stone in our School Library and started reading it. :) Reply #62. May 06 09, 12:02 AM |
| goobas
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Whenever the first book came out that is when I read it. So I guess I was 33. Reply #63. May 06 09, 7:33 AM |
yellowlion97
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when the first book came out i 8 it was awesome Reply #64. Jul 12 09, 10:31 AM |
| Sandstar12
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The first time I ever picked it up was when I was ten but I think I started reading them properly a year or two later. I got through the first 4 in a very short while and had to wait for the others to be released. Reply #65. Jul 14 09, 7:29 AM |
Prison
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About 8-9, maybe. I just remember being enthralled fully by it. Reply #66. Jul 14 09, 7:34 AM |
anabanana2015
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I started when 11. Reply #67. Jul 15 09, 8:49 PM |
dj168
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When the first book came out, I read it. Though I don't remember what lured me to read the first book... Reply #68. Jul 15 09, 9:09 PM |
rfcneil
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I was about 8. Reply #69. Dec 02 09, 12:15 PM |
Cymruambyth
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I read the first HP when my youngest grandson was eight. He's now 18, and I'm 72, so I guess Joybaby and were the oldest first-time HP readers. Reply #70. Dec 02 09, 1:18 PM |
diamondback1
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Oh, gosh. I was definitely a "late-bloomer". :D Considering that I'm both a teenager and a long time fantasy reader, anyway. I think I was fourteen—it was after Order of the Phoenix came out in paperback and before HBP. I resisted reading them because I thought they might witchcraft-y in a negative way. Then my mom was watching the second Harry Potter movie on TV and told my sister and me, "I think you'd really enjoy this." I watched the rest of the movie and was completely hooked! I checked the first two out of the library, fell in love, badgered my sister to read them until she fell in love with them also, and that was that. :D It was funny, though—I remember this elderly woman who'd tried to get my sister and I hooked on the series. She was so enthusiastic, it was really cute, but unfortunately all I got out of her garbled account was that in the plot "someone had been breaking the swings, and everyone thought it was neighborhood bullies, but it was really the bad wizards." In retrospect, I can see she was talking about the beginning of OOTP, and that probably what I heard wasn't actually exactly what she said. Sadly, my main impression was "What kind of a bad guy wastes their time breaking park swings? Lame!" Ah, such wasted years. :D Reply #71. Dec 04 09, 1:51 PM |
sarahcateh
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I think I was about 10 when I read the first book, it was in 1998 though, long after it had first come out. Reply #72. Dec 08 09, 10:53 AM |
gillimalta
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My brother bought it for me last birthday - my 39th! Reply #73. Dec 08 09, 11:52 AM |
smartman100
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I was ten and it took me just 2 days to finish it. Reply #74. Dec 21 09, 1:42 PM |
kels_76
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I have just bought the books, I treated myself to them for Christmas. I'm 33. It just goes to show that you can enjoy them at any age. Reply #75. Dec 25 09, 11:52 PM |
astir
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In my fifties, I brought one at a boot sale & was instantly hooked. Reply #76. Feb 09 10, 5:37 PM |
| gpm97457
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i was around 30/31 when i discovered Harry Potter. Reply #77. Mar 02 10, 7:51 PM |
| naughty_trini
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28 Reply #78. Apr 15 10, 5:47 AM |
AdamM7
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I started reading them when I was seven, and finished when I was nine (two days after I got both the sixth and seventh book at the same time!). Reply #79. Jul 24 10, 11:30 AM |
| spamster101
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7 but I did not understand any of it. Reply #80. Jul 28 10, 10:44 PM |
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