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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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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).

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is that the patrick rothfuss series?

yeah that's ever getting finished...patricks too busy reading sanderson, lol

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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

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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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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.

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The Discworld!

And Hitchhikers guide (the 3), tolkien & the hobbit, loads of sci-fi & fantasy... And when that was used up; Eco, Kundera, Bulgakoff, ...

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lemmy.world

it’s where the name is from ^* is just added an extra S cause it’s always taken

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lemmy.world

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.

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A lot of Star Trek novels, always wanted to live in a post scarcity utopian society exploring the universe

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George's secret key to the universe. I wanted to become a scientist, but then I found out how little they get paid.

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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.

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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.

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I didnt read much, but I did really enjoy Enders Game and Raptor Red growing up.

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Wheel of time, me and my siblings would reread all the previous books when a new one was coming out.

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Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators series. Followed by the Lord of the rings with the Hobbit and the Silmarillion.

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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.

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The Venus Equilateral series.

Basically, electrical engineers saving the solar system.

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