What's the book that got you reading and loving fantasy?

Question

Q is in the title. & what is your approximate age (teens, 20s, 30s, wiser, whatever you want to use)?

BQ: Do you also read sci-fi?


This Q is for you fantasy lovers.

Answer 1

harry potter.number one.i started reading it when i was eleven.one thing i can never forget is that it was the first novel i ever read.i've read nice children books like goerges marvellous medicine in the past but i never knew,the magic of harry potter binded me.i was reading the chapter one and i was like,oh this is crap!but chapter two.it became a page turner.i could picture everything and hermione was the best i could imagine.i drew a picture of her even before i saw the movie and knew it was emma watson that played the part.it was the first book i ever became obsessed that my earliers months of obsession kept me thinking it was real.then i was always googling stuff.i wanted to buy wands and robes and hedwig and almost everyone at school were calling me weird potfan.i was really crazy about it but now i'm fourteen and i'm not as weird but i'm still a huge potter fan.it's my best fantasy so far.it gave me my best friends.for sci fi-hunger games.it got me crying when rue died.i like twilight too.

Answer 2

I'm a teen, and what probably got me into reading and loving fantasy books were the Percy Jackson series and the Harry Potter series.

I don't read much sci-fi, but if there is a really good sci-fi novel that has high ratings, I would check it out.

Answer 3

I guess it's The Hobbit that first got me interested in Fantasy. My aunt read it to my cousin and I when I'd stay the night and LotR a little but I don't think I caught as much of that when she read it to him. It sort came to me on its own really. I also love Sci-fi. I find writing sci fi harder though because you have to have some stuff scientifically make sense.



I'm 30...

Answer 4

I fell in love with fantasy by watching The Lord Of The Rings. I haven't get the opportunity to read the books yet ( because they are expensive here, and I don't like reading books online ) but they have to be awesome :D

That made me get into the Harry Potter books, and all other less famous fantasy books and movies also :)

Fantasy is my favourite genre when it comes to books or movies :)

Answer 5

I started liking fantasy after reading Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality. I do like Sci-Fi, and my favorite science fiction series is Vampire Earth by E. E. Knight.

Answer 6

Probably the picture books Mom read to me at bedtime. I remember Peter Pan, The Tale of Peter Rabbit followed by The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, but I can't say which one stuck enough for me to keep reading them.



I can tell you it's over 50 years later and I read Watership Down earlier this year, so I haven't changed that much since Peter Rabbit. lol



As for sci-fi? Not really my cup of tea for reading, but I watch most sci-fi TV shows from Star Trek (all of them) to Stargate (all of them too) to Fringe, The Pretender and Lost. (Still angry with the ending for Lost. lol)

Answer 7

What got me into reading were fairy-tales and Roald Dahl. The Hobbit itself got me into fantasy. I'm 19.



BQ: No, sorry D:

Answer 8

Mine was The Hobbit too. The Lord of the Rings cemented my love of the genre. I'm in my 40s and yes, I read science fiction too.

Answer 9

i'm 17. I actually never use to read for pleasure until I read the Hunger games.. now i'm in love with dystopian fantasy books!!

Answer 10

I actually don't read fantasy. I write fantasy, but I don't really read it. I read more folktales and fairy tales, but modern high fantasy, not particularly. I am more into Sci Fi novels than fantasy novels.

Answer 11

immmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 15 and i got into fantasy by twilight, interitance series(eragon books) hunger games, and percy jackson..also some dragon books, about ping and dragons..forgot name though, was years sgo.

Answer 12

Raymond E Feist's "Magician"

Answer 13

I think it was "Split Infinity" by Piers Anthony, although I don't remember specifically.



My gateway drug into SF/F was "The Star Beast" by Heinlein.