[Ntschotschi]

I just wanted to bring this topic back:)

Some update information: I'm not living in lovely Bavaria anymore but moved to gritty Berlin.
(Umph...I just noticed that I've already posted this ... now old age is seriously creeping in ... chianti doesn't help ... :( )

I'm having a bit of a break, enjoying city life again and teaching a little philosophy at the Humboldt for a change.

[Hereford Eye]

I'm Dan. At 60, I may well be the oldest living forumite. I started reading sf in 1950 by stealing my brother's Galaxy magazines. The first fantasy I remember reading was a children's story about some blue people lving in stove pipe houses. It was a juvenile picture/story book that I have never been able to find again. The first fantasy novel I remember was LoTR which I read the first time in four days over a long weekend in 1967.

[Shehzad]

Sheesh, is this thread still alive?

[Holbrook]

Yep it is ;)

And I will add my bit.....

Holbrook Adams is one of three names I use for my writing.

Horses for courses I suppose.

My "real" name I use for historical fiction.

Holbrook Adams is for my fantasy work...

and I have another for horror...... Hobson West....

As to way SF and fantasy, why not? I began reading SF in my early teens, hard core SF.... lapped it up. Then early 20's started on the fantasy and historical fiction interwoven by Len Deighton Stephen King and James Hurbert books *g*

Hit my mid 40's and decided it was time to bite the bullet and put all the ideas in my head down on paper. Before old age sucked them up and spilt them out into nothing......

[Stor-All]

Um, well. I'm Jake, and I'm addicted to -- wait wrong forum.
I live in good ole' New England, and have lived here for all 16 years of my life. I've been reading fantasy for about 3 years or so. The first book I really remember pulling me into the genre was Beyond the Pale by Mark Anthony, and it still ranks as one of my favorite. As for why I read fantasy... it's just more entertaining to me than other genres. The descriptions, the action, the almost real-life worlds that I could almost live it... that's just the beginning.

[fluffy bunny]

22 yr old med student. Always loved a good tale. Read books for escapism. Always liked tales of mythology/legend and the supernatural.

Like to ponder the what if... questions

will read anything as long as there's a good tale spun- not just f/sf/horror

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Keep an open mind and don't be afraid to dream

[estranghero]

Say, so who's older, Here or HB? :D

For that matter, who's the eldest around here? (Excepting Hobbit 'coz hobbits have long lives anyway. ;) )

[Kirby]

30 year old animator.
Reads voraciously, ever since small.

Dr Seuss, World Myths/Legends/Fairytales (Grimm, Andersen, Traditional stories, etc), L. Frank Baum, C.S. Lewis.
These are my earliest (pre-teen) remembered influences.

And the "The Famous Five", "Three Investigators", "Hardy Boys", "Nancy Drew", "Trixie Belden" kind of fiction as well.

Egad! I nearly forgot -
Asterix!
How could I forget that! ;)

[SwordMaster]

Hi!

I'm Marco from Finnland, i started with Tolkien when i was 12,
now i am 14 and i have read all Tolkien, Feist, Brooks, Tad Williams, Salvatore, Cunningham, etc. etc.

Anyway i just wanted to say that we are all different in a way or another.

[tearoom]

Hello
I'm also new to these forums, Im 30 living in London...

i never read anything as a kid apart from comics..X-men - Astrix -Tin Tin...
then one day (a long long time ago when I was about 11 yrs old) I was in the library looking around and some guy (old man, with white beard...) suggested i read pawn of prophecy...and that was it. Hooked for life.....
l used to think it was Belgarath himself! (silly I know) but years later when I actually saw a picture of David Eddings...he did look remakably similar!

since then I've read as much as I could get my grubby hands on!
currently waiting on..new books from Martin, Erickson, DeLint, Jordan, Goodkind......

my name is ManDick btw....its chinese!