Thorts.
I'm reading Polgara the Sorceress and Mimi made an offhand comment about "going back to my roots" and it got me thinking...
What are my fantasy roots? What got me started on this obsession with the genre? What was the first fantasy book I read that got me hooked? And I realized that I have no idea. It might have been Eddings...but even earlier than that I was reading fantasy in the juvenile fiction section. But I think it was really Tamora Pierce's Wild Magic series that got me hooked on fantasy and had me looking for more...and from there I just kept branching out.
But my introduction to the world of adult fantasy...that's a little harder to pin down. I think, however, that it was the Darkangel trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, though some count that as young adult...if so, it would have to be Wheel of Time. Which is funny...and makes Robert Jordan's death all the more sad. The man who really introduced me to what fantasy can be just died.
It was months ago, and saying that still seems surreal. I can't believe he's really dead. I just can't. It's the weirdest thing.
No, wait...it wasn't Wheel of Time. Never mind. It was David Eddings that got me hooked. And even now, his voice is still one of the most engaging, fourth-wall breaking ones I've found. It's not quality, but it's incredibly fun to read.
And <3333Silk.
Meanwhile, the NaNo creeps along at a glacial pace...sounds familiar, don't it?
What are my fantasy roots? What got me started on this obsession with the genre? What was the first fantasy book I read that got me hooked? And I realized that I have no idea. It might have been Eddings...but even earlier than that I was reading fantasy in the juvenile fiction section. But I think it was really Tamora Pierce's Wild Magic series that got me hooked on fantasy and had me looking for more...and from there I just kept branching out.
But my introduction to the world of adult fantasy...that's a little harder to pin down. I think, however, that it was the Darkangel trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, though some count that as young adult...if so, it would have to be Wheel of Time. Which is funny...and makes Robert Jordan's death all the more sad. The man who really introduced me to what fantasy can be just died.
It was months ago, and saying that still seems surreal. I can't believe he's really dead. I just can't. It's the weirdest thing.
No, wait...it wasn't Wheel of Time. Never mind. It was David Eddings that got me hooked. And even now, his voice is still one of the most engaging, fourth-wall breaking ones I've found. It's not quality, but it's incredibly fun to read.
And <3333Silk.
Meanwhile, the NaNo creeps along at a glacial pace...sounds familiar, don't it?