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Miralyn05	What was your first fantasy book?		Lead	[-]
07/23/08 8:20 PM crazy asian cat lady	Tags : None Like the title says, I'm curious - What was the first fantasy book you read? What book got you hooked, if they're not the same book? And when was it? (Yes, some of you are old. Admit it. ) Mine was Salamandastron by Brian Jacques back in 4th grade! I remember ordering it from one of those Scholastic book order forms. Still have my original, much loved, much battered copy too. Been hooked on reading ever since - I'm rarely seen without a book in hand if I'm not in the lab. What's yours?
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Sargai		#1	[url]	[-]
07/23/08 8:54 PM Mr. Sargai	First real fantasy? Harry Potter I believe. *"At least."* Robillard: Sargai, when I give an order, you hustle! Sargai: Yes, dear. (Former) Lord of Hate \| President of the Artemis Entreri Fanclub \| Lord of Wrath \| King of 21st Birthdays \| Captain \| The Master
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BurrowWardenBelwar		#2	[url]	[-]
07/23/08 9:02 PM The Bivrip Cometh	The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks was my first I believe back in 9th or 10th grade. The book that really got my hooked, line and sinker, however, was Homeland by R.A. Salvatore. When you see me coming, you better step aside. I've got two hands of Mithril, and their going to collide! To hear the word that enchants them so, means certain death to those who know. And woe to you, oh earth and sea, for the devil sends the beast with wrath because he knows the time is short. Let him who knows, recken the number of the beast. For it is a human number. It's number is six hundred and sixty six. It's the beast within that you should fear, for without the beast, we will have failed.
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Jarlaxle 56		#3	[url]	[-]
07/23/08 9:28 PM	The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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mgoldb2		#4	[url]	[-]
07/23/08 9:32 PM	The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander was first fantasy book I remember reading (around the age of 11-12). I was expose to sci-fi even earlier first sci-fi book I remember is my dad reading me 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke properly when I was 5-6 years old only (yeah a bit of a strange choice to read to a 5 year but it held my attention for what ever reason)
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Sir William		#5	[url]	[-]
07/24/08 6:10 AM Registered Member	The Hobbit by Tolkien. Had to read it for a book report and ended up loving it. "No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
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Dreyzzyn		#6	[url]	[-]
07/24/08 10:50 AM Resident Viking	Mariel of Redwall. I put the Sexy in Dyslexia
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Symphonys Run		#7	[url]	[-]
07/24/08 11:30 AM	Eyes of thr Dragon by Stephen King Victory is mine!
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BeezerMN		#8	[url]	[-]
07/24/08 5:21 PM I'll be your Huckleberry	The First Dragonlance Chronicles book (is it Dragons of an Autumn Twilight?). I read it because my sister's boyfriend said to read it... didn't really want to. But ended up loving it and haven't stopped reading fantasy since. The Beezer Review
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Laethyn		#9	[url]	[-]
07/24/08 7:11 PM Admin	Fellowship of the Ring First sci-fi novel: Rama (Arthur C. Clarke) ~ Let me understand. One woman puts her knee into your cabarachees and the other puts her tongue into your ear, and you prefer the one with the knee? I'm very worried about you. ~ Oliver deBurrows Drizzt books in Chronological Order The Drizzt Do'Urden Movie Discussion Visit my Profile
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Slim The Just		#10	[url]	[-]
07/24/08 11:51 PM	I want to say mine was The Hobbit. Which was quickly followed up by The Lord of the Rings books. I had to do back to back check outs on each book because I was in the 7th grade and wasn't fast enough to read it in two weeks.
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Kirnelle Alatariel		#11	[url]	[-]
07/25/08 12:01 AM	Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone... But it wasn't until I read The Lord of the Rings almost 4 years ago now, that I really fell in love with collecting & reading fantasy. Right after LOTR's... I found my copy of Homeland & fell in love with RAS!!!! "Ye're bats!" Ivan yelled. "Ye can't be one of them!" "Doo-dad!" Pikel replied indignantly. "Ye think they'd have ye?" Ivan roared. "Tell him, boy!" he cried at Cadderly, who had just entered the kitchen. "Tell the fool that dwarves can't be druids!" "You want to be a druid?" Cadderly asked with interest. "Oo-oi!" piped a happy Pikel. "Doo-dad!" ~R.A. Salvatore, The Cleric Quintet ~ Canticle: chapter 11~ Come see the Fantasy Art Collection on 'my profile'... a mixture of AMAZING Artists!!
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mattymoron		#12	[url]	[-]
07/25/08 4:47 AM	The Hobbit http://mattymoron.proboards88.com/index.cgi My forum ^
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Sargai		#13	[url]	[-]
07/25/08 7:11 AM Mr. Sargai	Kirnelle Alatariel wrote: Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone... But it wasn't until I read The Lord of the Rings almost 4 years ago now, that I really fell in love with collecting & reading fantasy. Right after LOTR's... I found my copy of Homeland & fell in love with RAS!!!! It sounds horrible to me that my first fantasy novel is Harry Potter, but when I looked it up I discovered that I would have been ten when I first read it. All of a sudden it doesn't seem so bad. Of course, that comes from the viewpoint of someone who isn't all that much of a fan of the series and considers it a guilty pleasure... Anyway, Bob's The Dark Elf Trilogy got me into fantasy, but it wasn't the second book I read, more like the third. The second, a Dragon Lance novel, almost turned me away from the genre completely. Luckily I found Bob immediately after. *"At least."* Robillard: Sargai, when I give an order, you hustle! Sargai: Yes, dear. (Former) Lord of Hate \| President of the Artemis Entreri Fanclub \| Lord of Wrath \| King of 21st Birthdays \| Captain \| The Master
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pech		#14	[url]	[-]
07/25/08 9:44 AM The Pechster	The Hobbit. We read it in gr. 7 and I liked it. Then read a Dragonlance book that I really like (can't remember the title of it anymore). Then I tried to force myself through the LOTR series, but couldn't read them all. Then, a year later, I was at my dad's and he had a ton of books on his over filled book shelf and I asked if I could have some. He said for me to go ahead, and I grabbed up all the Forgotten Realms books that were up there cause they looked cool. Turned out to be Halflings Gem, The Crystal Shard, Homeland, Exile, Sojourn, and the Legacy. Along with a few other sporadic books from the realms.
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Izeil110		#15	[url]	[-]
07/25/08 9:44 AM	BeezerMN wrote: The First Dragonlance Chronicles book (is it Dragons of an Autumn Twilight?). I read it because my sister's boyfriend said to read it... didn't really want to. But ended up loving it and haven't stopped reading fantasy since. I feel like everybody in the world knows that Beezer's first fantasy novels were Dragonlance Chronicles. He's mentioned it a couple times in all his reviews. I wouldn't be surprised if a ton of his reader's knew this fact as well. But as to the first fantasy book that I read, it would be Bob's Homeland. As to the first novels that got me stuck on fantasy, it would be DL chronicles that kept me wanting to read DL and FR novels. But as to the novel that allowed me to expand my horizons into epic fantasy and the such, would be probably Magician by Feist I suppose.
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IZDemon		#16	[url]	[-]
07/25/08 11:53 AM	I think i got my start by reading books by Rose Estes then Joel Rosenberg. I eventually found my way to Forgotten Realms. Click my link! I need cronies. http://www.centsports.com/?opcode=40436
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Darque Jester		#17	[url]	[-]
07/25/08 11:56 AM	Can't remember which book exactly, but it was from the Dragon Lance series! Dragon Lance got me hooked on Fantasy books. I'm not much of a reader, but Dragon Lance books always kept me interested. http://nofantasytoofinal7.yuku.com http://juju.yuku.com/
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SoulAxe		#18	[url]	[-]
07/25/08 4:17 PM Mithril Wyrm	Been so long..... I think it was Susan Coopers books that got be hooked.... or maybe it was C.S. Lewis and Narnia... anyhow.. I read Earthsea after that... but is like 20+years ago.. who remembers such things "My axe is my soul and because of that it belongs close to me, without it I am incomplete." Quote from Against Inevitability by James Oliver
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Miralyn05		#19	[url]	[-]
07/25/08 4:20 PM crazy asian cat lady	Ahh, another Susan Cooper fan!! She was definitely one of the first authors that I read, and fell in love with!
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Kirnelle Alatariel		#20	[url]	[-]
07/25/08 4:20 PM	Sargai wrote: It sounds horrible to me that my first fantasy novel is Harry Potter, but when I looked it up I discovered that I would have been ten when I first read it. All of a sudden it doesn't seem so bad. Sar, I didn't start reading till way...way... further along in life. I really wish I had started younger like you though. So many books, so little time. When HP first came out around 1997. . . I had already left '10yrs old' in the dust! lol. I just never really liked reading when I was growing up?? Weird huh? I read books as a kid, & for school and what not... but never anything that really made me want to become a devoted reader until I was nearly 30 yrs old! (Man... seems like such a waste of time!!) Izeil wrote: But as to the novel that allowed me to expand my horizons into epic fantasy and the such, would be probably Magician by Feist I suppose. Feist was one of my first few Authors as well. He is amazing! I love all the Riftwar stuff I've read so far! "Ye're bats!" Ivan yelled. "Ye can't be one of them!" "Doo-dad!" Pikel replied indignantly. "Ye think they'd have ye?" Ivan roared. "Tell him, boy!" he cried at Cadderly, who had just entered the kitchen. "Tell the fool that dwarves can't be druids!" "You want to be a druid?" Cadderly asked with interest. "Oo-oi!" piped a happy Pikel. "Doo-dad!" ~R.A. Salvatore, The Cleric Quintet ~ Canticle: chapter 11~ Come see the Fantasy Art Collection on 'my profile'... a mixture of AMAZING Artists!!
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