[CatBell]

well I just had to read the thread with the most posts...and voila'
Cait/ Fraud investigator/Calif native living currently in beautiful Vancouver BC..Canada
First touched by fantasy? I read the Oz books when they were written (j/k) but I am near the oldest 49 years 6 months and 9 days. Am so old I can't remember the name of the counter-Oz story that hooked me in here. Maybe the Patchwork Girl?
Anyway..am glad to have caught up with ALL of you in the 5 pages of posts, had to post was beginning to feel like a perv for reading them all. =-)

[alison]

Thanks Catbell for resurrecting this, because it made me read it too!

I'm a decade younger, have three kids, and live off writing (poetry, plays, whatever, and yes, it's a hairy existence). My first fantasy book was LOTR when I was ten, I sat up all night and read it all the next day without sleep, and when it finished I was totally grieved and simply started again... so I guess you can say I was hooked. I guess what attracts me is complex - all the various pleasures of enchantment, the dark as well as the light, the play of imagination.

Best

Alison

[Bond]

I'm from Manila, Philippines. Mid-twenties. First fantasy I can recall reading in elementary school is The Chronicles of Narnia starting with The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Several years later I came back to fantasy with Weis and Hickman's Rose of the Prophet Trilogy. Another hiatus and then Feist's Riftwar Saga and the rest. Mabuhay sa inyong lahat.

[melkor]

hi , my name is sam. Im a 26 year old webmaster from St, albans near london UK...started reading Eddings at uni to fill in the boring parts of my psy degree. Was big into the famous five books as a child ,find "real life" far too boring and like to escape to other places. Love LOR and the silmarillion even more. However Feist is my fav by far, with Eddings not far behind.

Just found this forum and think it's great http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

[estranghero]

Hello to Bond and all!

I'm new to the group, new to the whole discussion thingie, and been lurking since last week. However, saw that there were some people posting all the way from the Philippines, I said why not? =)

I also live in Manila, past my mid-twenties, and seriously into fantasy/ science-fiction.

I started with the basics: Tolkiens, Eddings, Brooks, Weis, Hickman, and Tad Williams (in one breath!). However, I'm basically juggling with serious books like China Melvielle, Gregory Keyes, Tad Williams (again!) to light-hearted fare like David Drake, Richard Jordan, and David Gemmel. Also looking into the 'classics' of fantasy-- ER Eddison's Worm Ourobous, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, etc.

Trying to write, though not right now... =(



[This message has been edited by estranghero (edited December 02, 2001).]

[TripPoinT]

Hi I am 29 from California... My real name is Christian, and I am brand new to the board. My first fantasy/sci-fi was probably A Wrinkle in Time. It was either that or The Black Cauldron. C.S Lewis quickly followed, then Eddings. Well since then I have read just about everything worth reading. Now I am reading boards about people who read fantasy books =) hmmm...

-cb

[MrSquiddy]

Well.. I'm Jake, 18 Year old from Melbourne, Australia.. Don't live too far from Sojourn actually.. My first books were Tad Williams' lot, when i was 12 or 13, my brother who is 10 years my senior starting reading them, so i read them because i was bored. I enjoyed them, my fav author is Raymond E. Feist, i even have both of the games.. yeah it's sad.. =)

[Keyoke]

Just wanted to extended greetings to the all the New Members. Welcome! Stick around, we're a friendly bunch. http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Elan Morin Tedronai]

Yes, but enjoying Goodkind, that's not the best thing I think!

[Canaris]

some of the newies have made a BIIGGG mistake.

They outed themselves as eddings fans.

Boy , youre gonne have a hard time in this forum .

Behold, Eddings will be bashed even more, once you guys start praising his jibbering

wink