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My 1st series that hooked me when I was younger was The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander. I have gone back and re-read them since and feature them proudly on my shelf. It's geared for YA's but still entertaining and a fun read.
Robert Heinlein.
My father has a huge library, and I once asked him who his favorite author was, he said Robert Heinlein.
So I took a RAH book at random (Orphans of the Sky) and the English dictionary and went to town on it.
Didn't really like it, so I took another look at the other books, Stranger in a Strange Land seemed to be the most lauded book, so I decided to keep it till last.
Then it was Space Cadet, Starman Jones, Starship Troopers and Red Planet.
Two years later, I sat down to read SiaSL and haven't regretted keeping it for last.
My foray into fantasy came a little later, with the Icewind Dale trilogy by R.A. Salvatore.
My father has a huge library, and I once asked him who his favorite author was, he said Robert Heinlein.
So I took a RAH book at random (Orphans of the Sky) and the English dictionary and went to town on it.
Didn't really like it, so I took another look at the other books, Stranger in a Strange Land seemed to be the most lauded book, so I decided to keep it till last.
Then it was Space Cadet, Starman Jones, Starship Troopers and Red Planet.
Two years later, I sat down to read SiaSL and haven't regretted keeping it for last.
My foray into fantasy came a little later, with the Icewind Dale trilogy by R.A. Salvatore.
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The Pern Series is what got me hooked
As odd as this may sound, reading the Bible when I was younger got me into Fantasy.
UnknownSoldier wrote:
As odd as this may sound, reading the Bible when I was younger got me into Fantasy.
Huh, interesting.
Ok, I can see that.
Lord of the rings was the first fantasy book i read but it was the Pern Series that really hooked me.
Asimov got me interested in science fiction, I swiftly jumped on all science fiction books I could find in the local libraries (I was a member of three of them at one point), and as they labeled fantasy as the same genre (visual labels, science fiction was a sort of cloud for some reason), I read all I could find of that too.
Regrettably, back in the day, that didn't amount to so many books.
But still, plenty of Zelazny, Asimov, Weis&Hickman, Tolkien,...
Regrettably, back in the day, that didn't amount to so many books.
But still, plenty of Zelazny, Asimov, Weis&Hickman, Tolkien,...
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