Did you read when you were a kid?

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I didn’t read but a few books as a boy and I regret it. I had a good imagination and little to no intellect. As a middle aged man I have grown to despise the imagination. Maybe had I read early on I could have used it for world building in novels. I can’t help thinking it’s too late for me :disappointed:.

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I have to disagree with you.
Reading books is never too late.
:slight_smile: Please be more positive about yourself…
Books are literally for everyone. And no right time to start reading.
as though I also regret some things about reading.
When I was a child a read way more, but now… somehow I cannot force myself to read. I do it very rarely now

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I read a lot as a kid, it helped in school. People may forget but in elementary school, spelling and reading were two of the subjects. I was usually ahead of everybody else in those two subjects; when I was in fourth grade they put me in with the 5th graders for reading. That was all kid stuff though, I don’t know if it’s helping me now as an adult but I was a good writer in college. Reading probably helped me when I skipped 8th grade.

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I loved reading as a kid. It let me escape a miserable childhood.

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I read a lot as a kid. I was particularly into Harry Potter.

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I read a lot of comic books, my favorite was Spiderman

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Age 10 I liked the beano and wizzer and chips and short stories then I was into Enid blyton then Virginia Andrews
I have done lots of reading but these last few months I’ve not been reading I’ve got a small section of a book I have yet to finish im not in the right form of mind

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Yes. I read a lot as a kid. :duck::duck::duck:

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Once I learned to read (I was a late bloomer in this area) once that happened I almost always had my nose in a book

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Yes I read a lot up until I finished university.

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I read constantly as a kid.

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I read a lot as a child

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What did you like reading?

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I read an awful lot when I was a kid. I seem to remember losing interest in reading at about 26 though.

Now I can only listen to audiobooks, as I can’t do walls of text.

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Fantasy. Some science fiction but mostly fantasy. I read a crapload of Piers Anthony

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Walls of text here scare me I run away and don’t read them lol

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Love the feeling of getting into a good read. Makes me feel like a kid again.

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I collected Swamp Thing and horror comic books and read a lot of ray bradbury.

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I read two books over and over in elementary school - “White Falcon” and “Saber Jet Ace”. When I got to seventh grade my reading branched out. I saw on the internet that some dufus was saying that George Orwell’s book “1984” was too intense for kids. I guess it is okay for them to see movies like “Friday 13th”. We don’t need some nanny state looking over our shoulders telling us what we can read.

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I couldn’t read properly until I was 15. Then I started reading goosebumps books from the prison liberty and with proper tuition from the prison school learned how to read.

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