Aspies discussion

Hey guys, we all know Aspie's enjoy reading, I wanted to know what was your first book you really enjoyed as a kid and as an adult does the book still mean a lot to you as it did when you were a kid? My first book I truly enjoyed was Frankenstein by Mary Shelley when I was eight, a teachers helper who was assigned to help me at that age recommended Frankenstein to me and I read it in a month. To this day I still enjoy the book and Frankenstein inspired my love of reading Classic Literature that I still have today.

Dickens, A Christmas Carol!

Little Women- Louisa May Alcott & What Katy Did

Either Matilda or The Secret Garden. They were my favourite books when I was little, but I don't remember which I read first.

I know I read a lot before 3rd grade, but the first books that stick out in my memory as instant favorites were Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (my book included both stories and I have a hard time thinking of them as distinct books), the Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit, and the Chronicles of Narnia. I got away with doing book reports on Chronicles of Narnia books and the Lord of the Rings trilogy over and over for most of grade school, even though I read both series early in 3rd grade, because my teachers couldn't imagine a kid my age had already read all of those books. :)

Although I don't know if they were my first books, I enjoyed the Famous Five books. I identified with George, the tomboy.

I read Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree series so many times.

Though the book that I remember the most was a World Atlas I got when I was 6. Maps & Geography are my interests, I studied it on a daily basis. They remain my interests now.

I read everything I could get my hands on, but those books, magazines, and encyclopedias felt like preparation for something more. I found Isaac Asimov in 3rd grade and read everything he wrote by the end of 5th grade. The Foundation series was my favorite. I, too, was taken by the maps and geography found in the World Books. I would use the images as overlays in my mind for the Tolkien books, which I read concurrently with Asimov's work. The Dune books came shortly thereafter but I don't remember my seventh-grade year so I was able to read them again in high school. I sensed a great deal of familiarity with the story and characters and I experienced deja-vu-like sensations rereading them but I couldn't tell you a darn thing about the first reading.

Liv wrote: "I read Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree series so many times.

Though the book that I remember the most was a World Atlas I got when I was 6. Maps & Geography are my interests, I ..."

I relate to the attraction to maps and geography. I don't know you of course, but I wonder if you have the same world map I did on my wall, taken from the National Geographic magazine and carefully smoothed out and tacked completely flat and square. A good memory.

The A to Z mysteries were my first chapter book series. Those books were what I read most of my elementary school days

I loved The Secret Garden! As a kid with anxiety, both Mary and her cousin Colin really spoke to me and gave me hope that exploring the world around me could be fun.

Livia wrote: "I read Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree series so many times.

Though the book that I remember the most was a World Atlas I got when I was 6. Maps & Geography are my interests, I ..." I was about to post that too....all the enchanted wood stories from Enid Blyton were the first thing to engage me as a series of books and I couldn't put them down, even rebought the Magic Faraway Tree a couple of years ago to read again. It matches how I tend to regard the world, as a tree of life with all the different layers and with magic and mystery at the top but you never quite know what you're going to get and you have to make sure you can get back.

Tom wrote: "Hey guys, we all know Aspie's enjoy reading, I wanted to know what was your first book you really enjoyed as a kid and as an adult does the book still mean a lot to you as it did when you were a ki..." and I can relate to Frankenstein too Tom, I didn't read it until I did literature later but the curiosity and responsibility of the creative act as a theme has always stayed with me, also the deep loneliness that can come from isolation.

I loved Goodnight Moon.