Many people remember things like their first kiss, their first home run, their first date.... While I remember those too, I think that one of the firsts that really stands out in my life was my first fantasy novel. It was, *drum roll*, Dragons of Autumn Twilight - of the Dragonlance series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Man, was I blown away. I had just been introduced to Led Zeppelin - not the headbanging Led Zeppelin, but the thoughtful myth-oriented Led Zeppelin. I had my walkman on and late into the night I read fist Autumn Twilight and then the other two in succession - crying when Sturm died, laughing with and at Tasselhoff. Wow, those were amazing times. I never realized there was literature out there like that. And I began reading everything like it that I could get my hands on.
There have been certain books that I remember so strongly - and others that just fade into nothingness. But there is nothing like the first. What was yours?
-Lis
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Strangely enough, I was introduced to the genre not through a novel, but through a videogame called Shining Force. I was so fascinated by that kind of medieval fantasy with Magic and elves, I wanted more. I found a copy of Dragonlance "Time of the Twins", and then I had to find out more about this Raistlin badass guy and ended up reading the whole core of Dragonlance novels. Of course that was the start.
Strangely enough, I was introduced to the genre not through a novel, but through a videogame called Shining Force. I was so fascinated by that kind of medieval fantasy with Magic and elves, I wanted more. I found a copy of Dragonlance "Time of the Twins", and then I had to find out more about this Raistlin badass guy and ended up reading the whole core of Dragonlance novels. Of course that was the start.
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