Faith 'n Fiction Saturday

I came across Faith 'n Fiction Saturday over at My Friend Amy and decided to join in the fun. I believe it is weekly, and that a question is posted and you write your reply to it. Here's this week's selection:

Today's Question:We all come to faith in Jesus at different times in our lives and we all come to Christian fiction at different times, too! What's the first book in the Christian fiction genre you can remember reading? What was your impression of it? Did it make you want to read more or less?

I think the first Christian book(s) I remember reading is the Left Behind Series. Mind you, I may have read some others prior to that, but I honestly don't remember.

Several of my cousins were reading the series, and one evening at a baby shower they were talking about the current one that they were reading. They explained the series (up to that point) to my mom and me, and even lent us the first three or so books. This would have been late 1999, so I don't know what book the series was up to at that point. I do know there were at least three, because it was by book three that I knew I didn't want to be 'left behind'.

I've read many Christian books since then, and I must say I now prefer them to 'secular' books, basically because I don't have to read soft core porn in the pages, or tons of swearing and whatnot. Whenever I try to read secular books (which really isn't too often anymore), I find there's something missing from them. I have read some good secular books in recent years, but they just don't seem the same to me anymore. I'm not saying I'll stop reading them, but I find I read less and less of them - probably because my taste in books has changed since becoming a Christian nearly nine years ago.