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Raiztlin  2 stars
Title: Dick Tracy
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Registered: 2002-1-23 08:10:37
Wheel of time book 1.


I had read both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings before I read that one, but wasn't hooked. Read "The eye of the World" and haven't read much other then fantasy since. (Except some sci-fi, including Heinlein )

 

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uglydwarf  1 star
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Registered: 2005-2-4 08:37:07
sci-fi, it was RAH, starship troopers. still one of my favorite reads. if i could, i'd get a dart board with paul verhoven's face on it. for westerns, it was Louis L'amour, the Sackett brand, 3rd of his Sackett family series. fantasy was the hobbit.
Tai-Daishar_MT  2 stars
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First fantasy I read was The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Was hooked before even finishing The Hobbit.

 

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-Foxy-  5 stars
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Registered: 2002-5-29 21:46:17
long ago it was westerns, hopalong cassidy, the sackets, and many many more

now, i like cozies (mild, usually humorous mysteries, as apposed to your more hard boiled mysteries). there are many many authors and i honestly cant remember what first lead me to them.

 

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Hammerhand21  1 star
Title: That's what she said
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Registered: 2002-2-26 14:28:29
The Hobbit, read it when I was 10 or 11.

 

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Ravynmagi  4 stars
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Registered: 2001-12-23 17:10:17
Not sure which started it, read both of these around the same time and kinda got hooked on fantasy books after it...

Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold! by Terry Brooks
The Zork Chronicles by George Effinger

Shortly after that I started reading a lot of Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance books along with Piers Anthony and Robert Jordan.

Maybe they were proceeded by Bunnicula, a childrens book I read years earlier about a vampire rabbit that sucked carrot juice.
sliyurs  3 stars
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Registered: 2003-1-9 21:27:11
Reading the Dragonlance books when I was in 6th grade.

Haven't looked back since.

 

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DunesVladHarkonnen  4 stars
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Frank Herbert's Dune. Was hooked from there.

 

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vn_jurojin  1 star
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Registered: 2001-12-20 03:26:39
Never could have guessed that...Vlad
DunesVladHarkonnen  4 stars
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vn_jurojin posted:

Never could have guessed that...Vlad



 

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