First Fantasy Novel/Series You Read?

[EricNoah]

Dad read Narnia to me when I was around 7 years old. I remember crying when it was over -- I didn't want it to end. My wife doesn't understand people who re-read books, but to me it's like making sure it's never over.

 

[Starman]

My wife doesn't understand people who re-read books, but to me it's like making sure it's never over.

Amen. I read a lot and I love returning to old favorites from time to time. It's like seeing an old friend after a long absence. Priceless.

Starman

 

[Shallown]

First fantasy was Sword of Shannara.

First sci fi was, I believe, Heinlen's youg adult books, Star beast, Starman jones and a book called grey planet that I am not sure who wrote. Went on to read andre norton and such after that.

later

 

[Desdichado]

I think the Prydain Chronicles were probably my first foray into what we'd consider true fantasy novels. Followed fairly shortly thereafter by Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Chronicles of Narnia for me... then I found LoTR (but only books two and three - I had no idea what was going on, and stopped mid-way through The Two Towers only to pick it up a few years after when I found FoTR).

 

[IronWolf]

Another one for Chronicles of Narnia. Read that in elementary school, not sure what grade. From there I read The Hobbit and the LotR trilogy. Read Dragons of Autumn Twilight when it was first published from the Dragonlance series.

 

[nakia]

I read the Narnia series in third grade upon recomendation from my speech teacher. I don't remember why I went to a speech teacher (must have been a speech pathologist of some sort. Maybe I had a lisp), or what his name was. But I should give him a shout out for getting me started on fantasy literature (and, I guess, curing my speech problem).

Here's to you, speech pathologist at South Conway Elementary circa 1983!

 

[Richards]

For me, it was Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter of Mars" series, which I started when I was 9 or so and devoured one after the other until I had finished the series.

Johnathan