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[scarletts_awry]

I haven't seen Prince Caspian, though I probably will at some point. The talk about it has gotten me thinking though. Well, the talk about it and being back at home where a few of my old books still reside has got me thinking

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[bedlamsbard]

*cough* The Tarzan books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. And the rest of Burroughs' books -- just short Tarzan are the Pellucidar books -- but, well, Tarzan. That is probably the reason it's always been adventure stories with me. Tarzan and the Odyssey. I was a weird kid.

And also the Greek myths. This is a funny story, actually. See, my daddy wanted me to be able to choose any religion I wanted, so he was going to work from the oldest forwards, starting with the Greek myths. I kind of got stuck on the Greek myths, and that is why I'm a pagan.

Now, I read Narnia and LotR and L'Engle as a kid, but they didn't imprint on me as much as Burroughs did. But -- hmm, let me think. Mercedes Lackey and the Valdemar series; and Dianna Wynne Jones, Chrestomanci, Howl, and Dark Lord of Derkholm; Robin McKinley and Harry and Aerin and her big wonderful universe; Tamora Pierce and Alanna of Trebond and the Winding Circle kids; Patricia C. Wrede and Cimorene (at one point, I'd read the first book so much that I practically had it memorized, and I had to put it away for a few years because it wasn't delighting me as much anymore)...and, of course, J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter. Which, as a series itself, didn't change my life -- but HP got me into fandom, and that did.

You said kid and early teens. That was it for me. Now I feel very young.

(As re: Narnia, I just reread/skimmed most of the books in order to write meta and fic, so...I don't remember how much of an impression it left on me.)