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<blockquote data-quote="Which Tyler" data-source="post: 1065586" data-attributes="member: 73592"><p>Based on the copyright page in my versions (which more or less corresponds with my memory), my reading was Hobbit / Discworld > Shannara > LOTR > Dragonlance > WoT > Pern > ASOIAF</p><p></p><p>We read the Hobbit for English in the mid-80s, school was proud of Tolkein as there was some sort of connection.</p><p>Read my brother's Discworld books somewhere around the publishing of Mort (I remember him waiting for it) so 1987. It's perfectly possible that these 2 came into my life at the same time, I think Hobbit was first, but could easily be wrong.</p><p></p><p>Started Shannara when it was just a trilogy, around 1988/89, so aged 12-13 - it blew my mind. It does NOT stand up to re-reads, and there's so many better options, I wouldn't recommend it to any tweens now.</p><p></p><p>Which led me to LOTR when a teacher saw that I was reading a swords and sorcery book, I can't remember if that was final year at Primary school, or first year at Secondary (I was the 13 intake). Loved it, and my copy has gone past dog-eared, and is largely held together with duck tape.</p><p></p><p>New kid joined our school ahead of GCSEs, and introduced me to Dragonlance, and D&D; but these were always more DD campaign in prose form books, light and throw away - don't think I even tried to re-read them, can't remember anything much about them (some half-elf, a sickly but ruthless wizard and his strong but thick brother). I had 2 anthologies, pretty sure I only finished them for completeness sake.</p><p></p><p>Started WoT in the early 90s, with Lord of Chaos (1994) being my only hardback copy, whilst my Fires of Heaven seems to have been the first paperback run (no "reprinted in"). Which certainly matches my memory of reading these rather than studying for A-levels. It was several steps above anything in the genre that wasn't written by Tolkein - I've re-read these multiple times, but not since Sanderson finished them off with a damp squib.</p><p></p><p>Read through Pern whilst depressed and overcoming heartbreak after being dumped by Fiancée#1 - so 1999/2000</p><p></p><p>I was very much a late-comer to ASOIAF, though I'd read a couple of Dunk and Egg stories in collections I'd bought for other authors (STP). Discovered them in my first year outside of education so, 2003/4. aFfC is my first hardback, and I waited the full 6 years for aDwD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Which Tyler, post: 1065586, member: 73592"] Based on the copyright page in my versions (which more or less corresponds with my memory), my reading was Hobbit / Discworld > Shannara > LOTR > Dragonlance > WoT > Pern > ASOIAF We read the Hobbit for English in the mid-80s, school was proud of Tolkein as there was some sort of connection. Read my brother's Discworld books somewhere around the publishing of Mort (I remember him waiting for it) so 1987. It's perfectly possible that these 2 came into my life at the same time, I think Hobbit was first, but could easily be wrong. Started Shannara when it was just a trilogy, around 1988/89, so aged 12-13 - it blew my mind. It does NOT stand up to re-reads, and there's so many better options, I wouldn't recommend it to any tweens now. Which led me to LOTR when a teacher saw that I was reading a swords and sorcery book, I can't remember if that was final year at Primary school, or first year at Secondary (I was the 13 intake). Loved it, and my copy has gone past dog-eared, and is largely held together with duck tape. New kid joined our school ahead of GCSEs, and introduced me to Dragonlance, and D&D; but these were always more DD campaign in prose form books, light and throw away - don't think I even tried to re-read them, can't remember anything much about them (some half-elf, a sickly but ruthless wizard and his strong but thick brother). I had 2 anthologies, pretty sure I only finished them for completeness sake. Started WoT in the early 90s, with Lord of Chaos (1994) being my only hardback copy, whilst my Fires of Heaven seems to have been the first paperback run (no "reprinted in"). Which certainly matches my memory of reading these rather than studying for A-levels. It was several steps above anything in the genre that wasn't written by Tolkein - I've re-read these multiple times, but not since Sanderson finished them off with a damp squib. Read through Pern whilst depressed and overcoming heartbreak after being dumped by Fiancée#1 - so 1999/2000 I was very much a late-comer to ASOIAF, though I'd read a couple of Dunk and Egg stories in collections I'd bought for other authors (STP). Discovered them in my first year outside of education so, 2003/4. aFfC is my first hardback, and I waited the full 6 years for aDwD. [/QUOTE]
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