You were a non-reader, preferring to watch movies and series rather than touch a book.
But then, someone recommends a novel they think you’ll like, you flip through it and love it!
In case it’s the first part of a trilogy or series, and you decide to read the whole series (or at least read all the parts you get your hands on and, in case you can’t get your hands on the last ones, you decide to look for spoilers on the internet).
That was my experience with Warriors by Erin Hunter.
What’s yours?
Jurassic Park. Back in 92 I think. My reading teacher let us pick anything we wanted.
Read this in 8th grade about a year before the movie came out. It was the first time I ever experienced reading a book that I couldn’t put down. I was an avid reader but after reading JP it felt like everything I had ever read prior was pretty boring.
I remember Jurassic park! My parents were a bit strict about movies and I couldn’t watch pg-13 until I was 12 or so, but they let me watch Jurassic Park at age 8 because I’d already read the book, and they figured if I made it through that, then the movie would be okay. :)