Chaos Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Yeah, that's why I wanted to play it because it was the closest I could get to Ocarina. Anyways, we should probably get back on topic 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zayde Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Video games were also a huge factor in turning me towards fantasy, and though I love Zelda, I feel it was Final Fantasy X that pushed me towards fantasy. Although to be perfectly honest, I don't read as much fantasy as I play fantasy video games. I tried Terry Brooks and he was alright but a bit too formulaic for my tastes. I really enjoyed Stephen King's Dark Tower series and have a smattering of young adult fantasy that I either finished or kind of lost interest in. But other than that Brandon Sanderson and The Wheel of Time mostly comprise my fantasy likes. I have been branching out a little and started Kingkiller Chronicle and I also have plans to start A Song of Ice and Fire after The Name of the Wind. The upcoming tv series for A Game of Thrones piqued my interest and I want to read the novel before I start watching. I love me some fantasy games though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silus - Shard of Flame Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I don't remember my first fantasy novel, which will make this post rather dull. I guess if I think back, there were these Magic Treehouse books... Mind you, this was before I was ten. Hmmm.MAGIC TREE HOUSE! I loved those! That was until I read Animorphs, I never went back.I eventually made my way to Eragon, which seemed good at the time. My defense is that I think if I reread it, I would feel that it's pretty lame. Don't look at me that way.I'm kinda getting the same vibe. Though we'll see what happens when I get to it in my reread. Meq is awesome. I bought a signed(!) copy of Meq from a used book store. I spent seven hours straight reading that book from start to finish; missing Lunch and Dinner in the process. THANK ADONALSIUM ANOTHER MEQ FAN! I've always seen these books as my own sort of special secret series since no one I've talked to has ever heard of it, but I'm so happy to see someone else who likes them! I'm rereading it right now so I can read the third one when I get it from the library, and it's just as good as I remember it. Confession: I have never played Ocarina of Time. I hadn't either until I borrowed a collection edition thing from a friend and then got it on WiiWare, still haven't beaten the final boss yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zayde Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I read Eragon and I thought it was alright, if a bit derivative. I absolutely hated Eldest though. Nothing happened in the book until the end. I didn't bother reading the third one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I read Eragon and I thought it was alright, if a bit derivative. I absolutely hated Eldest though. Nothing happened in the book until the end. I didn't bother reading the third one. Brisingr was the worst book I have actually read through to completion. Maybe if I had read it simultaneously, when I was 15, with the rest of Inheritance, I'd have liked it better. Probably not. It was an atrociously boring book. When I have to read the sentence "Eragon ate a large meal", that means someone screwed up somewhere in this publishing process. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silus - Shard of Flame Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 (edited) Eldest is actually my favorite, though only because of Roran's plotline. It's my favorite part of the series. Brisingr was...not as good. EDIT: I forgot to mention the 300 AWESOME POINTS that Emeralis get for being a Meq fan. Edited March 22, 2011 by Silus - Shard of Flame 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralis00 Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I forgot to mention the 300 AWESOME POINTS that Emeralis get for being a Meq fan. It was actually because of you that I bought it at all. If you hadn't mentioned The Meq in Book Recommendations, I wouldn't have noticed it at the used book store. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eerongal Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 So my original intro in to fantasy was playing D&D with family and friends of the family. Second edition. And, of course, video games. Legend of zelda, final fantasy, dragonwarrior, etc. (all the NES games). I also played adventure games like Zork and other such games. I first read lord of the rings (the first fantasy novel i read) in 3rd grade (early 90's) because i saw the old cartoon version of the hobbit and thought it was awesome, and talked my parents into buying me the box set of 'em. I've basically been a nerd my whole life, as should be obvious with this. The next major series of fantasy books i'd read was the enchanted forest series (which was kind of a step backwards from LoTR). I also read a TON of choose your own adventure books, but i dont know if those count as fantasy proper or not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silus - Shard of Flame Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 It was actually because of you that I bought it at all. If you hadn't mentioned The Meq in Book Recommendations, I wouldn't have noticed it at the used book store. When you said you read it, I thought you meant farther back. But this, this is still very, very awesome. What did you think of it? I take it you enjoyed it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivertongue Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings when I was five. It all went downhill from there. I read The Chronicles of Narnia next, when I was six - and if anyone tells me that The Magician's Nephew is NOT the first book proper, then I will smack them with a shovel. The chronological order is the correct one! Between the ages of six and ten, there were a bunch of fantasy novels I remember little of. The head injury knocked some of those memories out, sadly to say. But then... age eleven, I began The Wheel of Time. That was the end. I was gone. Fantasy had me in it's grips and has yet to let me go. And I don't want it to. Despite having read many others before it, I consider The Wheel of Time to be my true introduction to fantasy, and I consider the books, all of them, among the best fantasy novels I have ever read. Even the ones other people got pissed off with. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralis00 Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 When you said you read it, I thought you meant farther back. But this, this is still very, very awesome. What did you think of it? I take it you enjoyed it? It was REALLY good. If it wasn't I wouldn't have read it in seven hours. I am looking for the second book right now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silus - Shard of Flame Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 I read The Chronicles of Narnia next, when I was six - and if anyone tells me that The Magician's Nephew is NOT the first book proper, then I will smack them with a shovel. The chronological order is the correct one! False, good sir! The order of publication is the BEST order! It was REALLY good. If it wasn't I wouldn't have read it in seven hours. I am looking for the second book right now. It's called Time Dancers. I just got the third one from the library and I can't wait to start it! The back blurb made me really excited. But I'm not going to tell you why as it would spoil the second one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivertongue Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 False, good sir! The order of publication is the BEST order! Wrong! CS Lewis HIMSELF said that chronological order was the best way to read the books. From Wikipedia: "I think I agree with your [chronological] order for reading the books more than with your mother's. The series was not planned beforehand as she thinks. When I wrote The Lion I did not know I was going to write any more. Then I wrote P. Caspian as a sequel and still didn't think there would be any more, and when I had done The Voyage I felt quite sure it would be the last, but I found I was wrong. So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone read them. I’m not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beligaronia Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Probably what started me on fantasy was the Redwall series (although probably what led me to that was the works of Dick-King-Smith but that's not quite Fantasy). I also met and fell in love with the Dragon riders of Pern leading me into the strange world of Science fiction. At this point my course was set, what I read would have Magic or Far off science (or on a good day both). (Despite several well-intentioned english teachers trying to get me to read things about this world.) Redwall remained ensconced as my favourite series for quite some time before finally being displaced in time by a chance introduction to "The Carpet People" by Terry Pratchett. Pratchett has maintained his chokehold on my literary landscape for the past 10 years. At some point in all this Harry Potter caught me but in their turn they were cast by the wayside. (I enjoy the books and occasionally even reread them but still find it more fun to pick holes in them affectionately.) And in no particular order the following authors have been read in their time: Jonathon Stroud (Bartimaeus Trilogy) David Eddings (Belgariad, Mallorean, Elenium and Tamuli) David Weber (Honor Harrington series among others) Brandon Sanderson (You may have heard of him) Mercedes Lackey (Heralds of Valdemar and others) Many many others In summary: Redwall led to Pratchett. Pratchett led to everything else. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EHyde Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 I *think* Narnia was my first fantasy though I'm not positive. I remember we ordered a box set from the Scholastic book club and my mom said "they got the numbers wrong, I guess that's why we got such a good price" so for the longest time I thought that re-ordering them in chronological order was a mistake. But I guess I can see how it could make sense to read them in that order too. It makes more sense than watching Star Wars in chronological order, and I know someone who insisted on that ... But when I read Narnia I was still in the stage of reading books my parents gave me. I'm not sure, but I think the Tamora Pierce Alanna books were my own real introduction to fantasy. And for science fiction it was a book called "The Keeper of the Isis Light" which I expect very few people have heard of. I remember in my fourth-grade class the smart boys were reading Tolkien and Asimov and I wanted to be like them, but I didn't ever quite like their books as much as they seemed to ... I think at that age I needed books about girls to really help me get into the genre. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silus - Shard of Flame Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 @Beligarona Bartimaeus! Woot! I got a box set of the trilogy for Christmas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe ST Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Well, much like Eric, I cant remember anything, but I definitely read the first HP a few times in one night. It might have been The Hobbit, or The Subtle Knife, or Artemis Fowl, or anything really, heh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Squirrely Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Oh good lordy, I can't remember exactly when I became a die-hard fantasy fan.... I grew up watching Star Wars, so I guess that ensured that I turned into something of a nerd.... I think I read some light fantasy here and there but my introduction to it was really Harry Potter, when I was 8 years old. I read the first book in 3 hours, and since then I've read all the books up to Order of the Phoenix a minimum of 10 times each. After that I also really liked Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing books, and I read The Amber Spyglass when I found it at my school library. I can't remember when I discovered Lord of the Rings, but that was somewhere in my past. >.> It was only a matter of time before I stumbled across a friend who was more of a fantasy fan than I was at the time, and who recommended all the books that led me, eventually, to the Wheel of Time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe ST Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Ahh yes, Starwars was a big part of my childhood too, and I read The Phantom Menace before it came out in cinemas >.> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link Von Kelsier Harvey Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Hmm... My third grade teacher gave me The Hobbit. Also read Diana Wynne Jones' Chronicles of Chrestomanci, and Dark Lord of Derkholm. Dungeons and Dragons was essentially a revelation for me. Say what you will, that game is what made me finally realize, "Hey, I think I really like this 'Fantasy' thing." I really like the world-building of 4E. (I know, I know.) Uh... yeah, then I found Elantris. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeatherWriter Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Hmm. Chronicles of Narnia was definitely my first, (Publication > Chronological!) I read it in Kindergarten, though that was mostly just to be able to say that I had. I discovered Eragon in fourth grade. Soooooo addicted it was not even funny. That was probably the first time I've really gotten into a book. But Eldest was eh, the movie was ehhh-er and I never read Brisngr. Because while I floated on Maximum Ride and the Percy Jackson series. It was something far more terrible that caught my attention. Twilight. I got into the books as they were just starting to gain recognition. The second book had just come out, and not too many people knew about them. My English teacher actually reccomended them. Middle School Girl + Sparkly Vampires + Ooh new, unheard of series = No hope whatsoever. It was a dark time. I quoted the books; I owned two copies so that I didn't have to go without when I loaned them out; I HAD A BLOG OF FANFICTION. Dark times indeed. By the time the first wave of Hype Backlash started to hit, I was so deeply ingrained in the fandom, I fought back. I read other peoples blogs, I stalked the author's page for news, I woke up at 3 AM on a school day to get a ticket to see her. The third book, Eclipse didn't help at all, because I thought it was the epitome of writing at the time. There seemed to be no hope in sight. And then, Wheel of Time. *cue angelic singing* A woman at my church recommended them to me, and I read them just about straight through. When the fourth book came out, it was the kiss of death for that addiction. From Wheel of Time it was a short hop to Brandon, and I haven't gone back. Wow. Sorry for the narritive of my fiction-reading life there. Wall-o-text much? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycoltbug Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 What got me into fantasy, well that is very long and kind of funny story. My entire school carrer K-12 I never read a single fantasy book. I was you A-Typical jock that abhored anything that required the use of imagination. Heck I even remember making fun of fellow student for reading DragonLance. It wasn't until my Senior Prom when a buddy of mine whose dad is also a critic for movies had a copy of the first LoftR movie that we could watch. Something in that movie captured me and my mind to something greater than myself. I went out that morning when the Barnes and Noble opened up and bought The Hobbit and all 3 books in the series. I managed to finish all 4 only days before leaving on an LDS mission (which further fueled my imagination living in the world of the Maya.) After returning I picked up for my passion and have always been had my nose down in a book ever since. So long story short a book inspired movie peeked my first interest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eerongal Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 y'all make me feel old. I had like just started in highschool when the harry potter BOOKS started coming out, midway through my highschool career for the beginning of the new star wars movies, and out of highschool and in college when eragon was published 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firiel Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 If we're talking about things other than books that got us into fantasy, for me, a huge part of it was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It sounds really bizarre to say this, but that game changed my life. If not for that, I would have never started writing fanfiction or got into half the things I enjoy today, and who knows where I'd be without the people I met at conventions and on ff.n? Zelda FTW! My first introduction to fantasy was also a Zelda game... Zelda: Link's Awakening on the original black and white gameboy. I think I started playing that game in kindergarten or first grade... so I was young. Then in second and third grade, Chronicles of Narnia. But what REALLY got me was reading The Hobbit in fifth grade. Then again, I believe I was writing a "fantasy novel" (entitled Good Girls, Bad Boys ) before then, so maybe Chronicles of Narnia influenced me more than I realize... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeatherWriter Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 I think what really got me into trying to write fantasy was actually the game Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. After playing that game, (which is awesome by the way, go get it!) I created my own world, that was half-ripped off from that game. For a while, my friends and I would just kind of play pretend (roleplaying I suppose, though we didn't call it that) and we each had our own characters, races, and classes. After that I tried to write a cliche-fest of a novel set in the world, because I figured if I had all this worldbuilding, why waste it? But by then I was kind of starting to see how derivitive it was and how much work it would take to actually make it work and how not-cool my story was and ooh-look-sparkly-vampires. And that was pretty much the end of that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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