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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 320936" data-attributes="member: 518">I was in 4th grade. My fave teacher ever (John wood, Mantua Elementary, Fairfax VA, if he's out there), read books to us every few days for an hour or so.He read most of the Narnia books and the Hobbit. Most other kids were bored, but I was fascinated. I then bough the Hobbit and read that...then I moved on to LotR...then I found out about D&D and I was off from there..then I really got into Elric; talk about a rude-awakening compared to the good Professor!To this day Tolkien is my fave, and Middle-earth my fave "mythical" world. Though I enjoy other fantasy, I don't/haven't read much at all ( Ihave a 2 year old...nuff said..). I really enjoyed the Elric series, the first 3 DL books, Eye of the World (1st WoT book), The Thieves' World short stories, and I just finished reading one the Earthdawn novels (lost kaer) that I thought was very entertaining. I've tried reading the FR novels..the Avatar Trilogy, Some of the compilations and some EC's work, and I just thought most of it was pretty bad..Many folks seem to like Salvatore, but I'm just nto a fan of the concept of Drizzt..so I've skipped them..perhaps they are better...I'm itching to pick up some Jack Vance, but it's impossible to find on the shelves around here, and I just never bothered to order it.In the end though, Tolkien is King in my book.</blockquote>