Reading on and on and on!

Reading is my passion and here is my story about it. It all started at a young age when I started reading Tinkle Comics.I don't remember who gave us(my elder brother and a younger sister) our first copy of Tinkle comics.Maybe it was our father or maybe it was my aunt.Whoever it was we were hooked on to it.In the later years both my dad and aunt bought us a number of comics.But My dad was the one sole person who influenced us to dig more into this reading.He told us countless stories from the novels he read and these stories were wonderful and as a kid they fascinated me a lot.This slowly developed in me an urge to start reading novels and all this culminated in one fateful day when I borrowed from our awesome school's library in my seventh standard, my first novel 'King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table' from the truly 'Great Illustrated Classics'.The book was great and the tales of ancient knights interested me and I rushed back to library to take my second novel,HG wells' 'The Time Machine'.This was the start of a truly memorable period of my life when I borrowed one book after another.I completed the whole 'Great illustrated classics' series soon.
Now I was well and truly hooked and one book followed another.As I grew up I found new authors and new books.In my 9th class I read 'The Da Vinci Code' which helped me bag the first prize in the Best Reader Contest which was held annually in our school.This started an uninterrupted phase when I bagged the first prize for four consecutive years till I passed out of my junior college in my 12th.
On the way I read books of many authors some of whom are Alistair Maclean,Micheal Crichton,Robert Ludlom and Frederick Forsyth.The names mentioned are also my favorite ones.
Every now and then a book comes along and it influences you in different ways. 'The Da Vinci code' was one for me,then two months back I read 'The Fountain Head' by Ayn Rand.most of it,I admit,went above my head but nevertheless it proved to be an interesting read.The philospohy of the different characters with their actions were something completely new to me and it started a chain reaction to read books of a different kind. Iam following this new thought and I am in the lookout for new books to read.

My Favorite Novel-Icon by Frederick Forsyth.
Favorite Author- Frederick Forsyth
Favorite Horror Authors- Algernon Blackwood and Ambrose Bierce