What got you into reading novels?

[AryaX]

Umm... I don't really remember ever reading any big "Novels"... but... some light novels and... web novels... sure...

1st, I discovered Anime or Manga... I don't remember which came first, but anyway... I catch up with the translations of the franchises I found interesting, but didn't want to keep waiting... and waiting... and waiting... and in looking for new chapters, I found the light novels of the franchises and started reading them... and after a while, I catch up with them as well... and instead of waiting... and waiting... and... waiting... I started looking for fanfics and such... and eventually found that, the fanfics and web-novels had something going for them... that is... they weren't as "clean" or "censored", and had a lot more of various "risqué" subject matter... and after a while, I started looking for web novels based on those... and I also found the happy happy realms of hentai and... so on...

 

[Katsuya]

ig writing. I never really loved reading before. Then, a couple years back, i started finding reading not too bad, then after I got into writing and boom.

 

[BlackKnightX]

Umm... I don't really remember ever reading any big "Novels"... but... some light novels and... web novels... sure...

1st, I discovered Anime or Manga... I don't remember which came first, but anyway... I catch up with the translations of the franchises I found interesting, but didn't want to keep waiting... and waiting... and waiting... and in looking for new chapters, I found the light novels of the franchises and started reading them... and after a while, I catch up with them as well... and instead of waiting... and waiting... and... waiting... I started looking for fanfics and such... and eventually found that, the fanfics and web-novels had something going for them... that is... they weren't as "clean" or "censored", and had a lot more of various "risqué" subject matter... and after a while, I started looking for web novels based on those... and I also found the happy happy realms of hentai and... so on...

I see. We have quite similar experiences.

To sum it up: you started by anime and manga, then they ran out of juice and you needed some more, so you went toward the light novels territory, after they ran out of juice as well, you got frustrated and decided that you wanted some real juice, and since you had a plot armor privilege of an experienced reader, you finally stumbled upon a real source of juice, in this source there were a whole lot of juice, juice of different types and flavors, and you got addicted to this juice, sometime you even went and created your own juice—right?

That’s quite a story, huh?

 

[Mellohwa]

When I was in primary school, I used to wait for hours waiting to get picked up by my parents, it was not that boring until all my friends went home. After they left, I kept myself busy reading books in the library. And my first novel(or is it childrenbooks?) is from Enid Blyton, called the Famous Five. And I really love it!

Thus, my journey across the seven seas~