I wouldn't say I hyperfixated, but Lord of the Rings was my first in a long line of fantasy crushes 😁
I wouldn't say I hyperfixated, but Lord of the Rings was my first in a long line of fantasy crushes 😁
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Kingkiller Chronicles taught me why one should never do this.
is that the patrick rothfuss series?
yeah that's ever getting finished...patricks too busy reading sanderson, lol
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The Name of the Wind etc. rekindled my love for fantasy at a time when I’d become quite jaded about it, so yeah I hear you… I can’t hate the guy, he’s entitled to live his own life and doesn’t owe me anything, but at the same time it’s hard not to at least feel disappointed. 🤷♂️
@imalcolm @9bananas @ivanafterall I think he wrote himself into a corner
Lord of the Rings which is why I now have a 850 sq ft garden in the back, and a side yard filled with trees and bushes. I'm trying to grow an entire year of fruits and veggies. Feels very Hobbit-coded
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I still read or listen to the five part trilogy about once a year.
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Ender's game, followed immediately by an unhealthy and unrealistic fixation on the power of intelligence
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@desmosthenes HOLY SHIT lol
it’s where the name is from ^* is just added an extra S cause it’s always taken
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Growing up I loved the Dragonriders of Pern books
The Discworld!
And Hitchhikers guide (the 3), tolkien & the hobbit, loads of sci-fi & fantasy... And when that was used up; Eco, Kundera, Bulgakoff, ...
Growing up? Why not more recently?
Yeah, I still do it and I'm 38. Reality bites.
All started with Harry Potter for me, what, 1996? 1997? And fantasy is the genre I will always go back to. I've dabble in scifi, espionage, nonsense (House of Leaves), whatever Cormac McCarthy writes, but I always come back to fantasy, because reading relaxes me before bed, and something similar to the world we live in is not relaxing.
Yeah it was Harry Potter for me as well
Yeah. I'm hyper fixated on webnovels and manhua now.
the Amber chronicles
Any luck shifting shadows?
No, but I do have a Tarot deck:
Dragonlance saga by Weis and Hickman, plus all the secondary books in the series.
George's secret key to the universe. I wanted to become a scientist, but then I found out how little they get paid.
A lot of Star Trek novels, always wanted to live in a post scarcity utopian society exploring the universe
Goosebumps when I was really young, and Redwall until around grade 5 or 6. Then the golden compass/his dark materials books in grade 5. Then just a bunch of different fantasy books in grade 5 through 8, I read the Hobbit a bunch of times during this period too, then high school was lord of the rings and then wheel of time.
Harry potter, Eragon (Inheritance Cycle), and Pendragon
Not fantasy, but there was a book about this weird entity eating a raven, followed by increasingly larger things like donkeys and children etc. It was all written in a poetic way.
I do remember the happy ending when the thing wanted to eat an old grandma whole along with her food, so she asks protagonist to wait until some food is ready, and then she stabs them in their sleep with a knife.
There is another, unrelated book by the same name that's more popular so searching online was pain. I could not find any pdfs, but here's the cover jpeg in low resolution and the author's name if anyone wants to continue from there.
Oburcuk by Selçuk Taykutgül.
Wheel of time, me and my siblings would reread all the previous books when a new one was coming out.
Hahaha
ALL OF THEM
Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators series. Followed by the Lord of the rings with the Hobbit and the Silmarillion.
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The mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley...read it when i was sixteen
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Oh my god I had forgotten about Mists of Avalon! Blast from my past. Might have to reread that as an adult.
I remember in the fourth grade I crushed an escape sci fi fantasy series written by Bruce Coville. I can't remember the titles of the books, or even any significant plot points... but bizarrely the authors name is still right there.
Wraeththru Chronicles
Percy Jackson was my shit growing up
I didnt read much, but I did really enjoy Enders Game and Raptor Red growing up.
Conan - I read all the novels by L. Sprague DeCamp, some multiple times. Elf quest. Belgariad. Lensmen and other EE Doc Smith stuff. Tons of comics. X-Men freak. Michael Moorcock stuff. Foundation. Robotech, so much Robotech. Had all the novelizations, vinyl album, movies, comics, art books... And one toy (which was actually Jetfire from transformers).
Lotr, xanth, dragonlance, foundation, the dark tower... hard to pick just one
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
I got my first Dragonlance novel around age 10 or 11 and read every book they published up until the late '90s.
Most of my reading now is more learning (either the actual material or something in a language I'm learning more related to my level than the genre/content).
@farmgineer I read a few Dragonlance but I was too old for them then so I can't say I thought they were good, but the Drizzt series from the forgotten realms I thought was really good 🤔
Yeah, I don't think I would have been as into them had I started when older. I never read any of the Forgotten Realms novels that I can remember. I did read some other series that Hickman and Weiss worked on, but I couldn't tell you what it was called off the top of my head anymore so it must not have made too much of an impression.
The Venus Equilateral series.
Basically, electrical engineers saving the solar system.
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Definitely LoTR. I was reading that during the great war between Ballantine Books and Ace Books.
@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @[email protected] @[email protected] @aiop @joinin Dragonriders of Pern, and Doctor Who. Yes I know that’s not a book. I had a dream as a preteen of the TARDIS landing in between the temporary buildings where I had fifth grade and I was going to fly away with the Doctor. So I don’t care that it’s a show and not a book. I wish I’d found Ursula Le Guin and Iain Banks sooner.
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Hitichikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Travel, wit, and digital watches. What's not to wish you could escape into?