Reading

At what age did you start reading Veeky Forums and what has it done to change your life?

10. This is the life I'm used to so I really can't say. Though the road's been bumpy I love life.

>he gives the age at which he literally started to read the alphabet.
in all seriousness, good for you user, though it's a pretty innocuous statement, saying one loves life is not common these days.

In elementary school where I would finish my work and read under my table so I didn’t have to talk to anyone

16... that's when i discovered dr jordan b peterson... he thought me how to think, how to see past the feminist lies and i will always consider him a friend for that

I actually had difficulty reading at an early age. In second grade my school decided to put me in a class were the teacher works one on one with you to improve you're reading ability. Within about a year of taking that class I had fallen in love with reading, and kept at it ever since.

17. Count of Monte Cristo. Literature has me simultaneously more pretentious and soul crushingly depressed at my inadequacy.

>Reading since as early as I could remember
>Through elementary+middle school always had excellent vocabulary and strong writing skills, credit it to YA trash
>Obsessive, borderline autistic fascination with crafting worlds - would spend time imagining them play out, took autistic pleasure in having a realistic set of rules governing them.
>Took extended reading hiatus during high school, was too cool for it or something.
>Began reading 'serious' literature in college. 1984, BNW, Vonnegut, all that Reddit-core shit. Kind of deluded myself into liking them because they were 'real, important' books.
>Started to sincerely enjoy literature when I read David Copperfield, then read most of Dickens' oeuvre.
>Reading becomes something where thoughts and feelings I had become manifest
>Begin reading Proust
>Sincerely feel like every difficulty or trouble I've ever had was perfectly rendered into being within ISOLT
>Wish I could be reading Proust when I feel anxious or upset
>Learn French to read him in original form

I don't know if it's changed my life, but sincere enjoyment of literature, as opposed to reading books you're 'meant' to read (albeit Reddit-core), enriched my life desu.

Been reading for as long as I’ve been able to read. I think it has made me more empathetic, critical, and well-spoken over all. But on the other hand it has made me quite lonely - there’s absolutely no one my age who wants to talk about old books. I also think it’s those old book’s fault that I can’t enjoy superhero movies and whatever, which makes it even worse. Not that I’d have it any other way, but, you know.

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Nothing

I was reading everything I could get my hands on since I was 6. I became an extremely introverted, developmentally stunted manchild. Reading is great.

Can anyone else remember when they learned to read? I distinctly remember the first time I looked at text and was able to read it. It all came together in a flash.
I started reading Veeky Forums stuff when I was 17 or so, but there have been times when I've lost the thread and didn't read much for long periods of time. When I'm reading good literature I feel happier and more alive. On the flip side, there have been times when I feel like it can alienate me a bit because I dive into things that no one else around me enjoys.

17, I had always read fiction but never the classics. It gave my life the purpose I desperately needed.

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t. 18 year old

Your progression is extremely similar to mine and Proust is basically the only writer to have ever really blown me away and changed my life. What was most helpful in learning French for him?

Been reading since elementary, but only started reading seriously at 14.

I didn’t read much until 5th grade. So I was about 9. I read a ton of Goosebumps books.

I Wish I Was Back Home Reading Proust Right Now

Somewhere between 1st and 2nd grade I was given Call of the Wild by my aunt. Been suicidal ever since.

3, lucky for me my mom is a teacher and a very good mother with expertise in early childhood education.
I only really wanted to read animal encyclopedias and that trend continues, now I have a very broad knowledge of the life sciences and an accumulating specialist knowledge in a number of fields. I also took to philsophy early on and that also continues. I don't read fiction despite my mom's best efforts.

I was in fifth year of secondary school, my English teacher was inspiring.
It has made me want to become a better individual, someone whom people can talk to and feel either understood or that they had an enriching conversation.

I've read lit sporadically since sometime in primary school. Only stopped reading YA and got into the Veeky Forums mindset when I was 18.

6 yrs old. I used to read almost all the books from my aunt's library, and I was seen as a weirdo for doing so. Not only I enjoyed reading, I loved the smell of the books.

started reading at age 3, transitioned to serious literature somewhere in my early teens?

As soon as I learned how. Since I grew up oscillating between america and germany, it was probably later than most; 5 or 6. I read absolutely everything, and started raiding my dad's library immediately. It has been... I wouldn't exist as I am today if I didn't read, and all the tropes I love can be retraced back to the first novel I ever read.
Ships, nature, pirates, people adapting, living in the wild, the ocean, historical novels, almost pedantic descriptions of people doing shit, especially improvising or building things- god, I just... I fucking love reading.

same

Started reading around 4
Didn't really have a big event when I became interested in "real literature," I just enjoyed books. We didn't have cable growing up
In high school I became more interested in films and pop music and comic books and television, and I only read outside of class occasionally. Inside class I would do the assigned reading if something interested me, which it sometimes did but usually didn't.
But what I was most interested in was films, and if you dig into movies deep enough you'll eventually end up reading Scorsese on Scorsese, Pauline Kael, Sculpting in Time, screenplays... It always goes back to books