What book got you into the fantasy genre?
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Hawksong. i read five books in ten days. they kicked ass. it was about a war between hawks and snakes that transform into humans... no wait, vice versa... anyways, so the hawk princess Danica marries Zane, the snake prince, to end the war. the next one is about them being married and shit, the third is about a badass falcon shapeshifter learning to do magic, the forth is about the weird snake-hawk daughter of Danica and Zane's,and her trying to find either a snake boy husband or a hawk boy husband, but really she wants falcon mage more than anyone, but his magic and her strange cross-breededness would fuck with space time or something. and the fifth is about Zane's brother's weird snake-falcon child who badass falcon boy and half-breed princess save and her becoming princess since cross-breed ran off with a wolf women and they got hitched, and because she was Zane's older brother's child and should have been princess anyway. as fucked up as this sounds, it was a fantastic series. seriously, i'm going to have to re-read them now. that was one badass book.
Mine actually wasn't the Hobbit, as so many people seem to say is theirs, but it was a D&D book. "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" from the Dragonlance series go me into fantasy. As it stands, Dragonlance is still my favorite D&D setting because it was packed full of DRAGONS, those things right in the damn name of the game.
The Seven Songs of Merlin back when I was in elementary school. I loved those books so much, and they really opened up a lot of new and different stories for me. I also had a pretty cool librarian who helped me find new fantasy books when I ran out of my own choices.
Not really sure. I want to say it was Bruce Coville's stuff quite a while ago, but standard fantasy wasn't his primary focus. R.A. Salvatore's The Crystal Shard was probably the initial intriguing stereotypical fantasy novel for me.
Of course, I bought that because Baldur's Gate attracted me to D&D, so it's more to blame than any book as far as that breed of fantasy goes.
Of course, I bought that because Baldur's Gate attracted me to D&D, so it's more to blame than any book as far as that breed of fantasy goes.
Mine was probably The Lord Of The Rings, although my interest has been rekindled more recently by A Game Of Thrones from the 'A Song Of Ice And Fire' series.
Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. But before you start flaming me I will point out I was 11 at the time.
I haven't really read that much fantasy though, I've got the Terry Pratchett's Discworld series so I really need to read them. Nothing could be worse then Eragon.
I haven't really read that much fantasy though, I've got the Terry Pratchett's Discworld series so I really need to read them. Nothing could be worse then Eragon.
I tried reading those when I was younger and couldn't get in to them. I might have to give them another shot.R3dF41c0n said:
