I wouldn't say I hyperfixated, but Lord of the Rings was my first in a long line of fantasy crushes 😁
2 days ago by Nick East (Indie Writer) to c/humor
I wouldn't say I hyperfixated, but Lord of the Rings was my first in a long line of fantasy crushes 😁
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Lord of the Rings which is why I now have a 850 sq ft garden in the back, and a side yard filled with trees and bushes. I'm trying to grow an entire year of fruits and veggies. Feels very Hobbit-coded
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I still read or listen to the five part trilogy about once a year.
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Ender's game, followed immediately by an unhealthy and unrealistic fixation on the power of intelligence
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@desmosthenes HOLY SHIT lol
it’s where the name is from ^* is just added an extra S cause it’s always taken
@desmosthenes Trust me, I'm aware lol
Yeah, I still do it and I'm 38. Reality bites.
All started with Harry Potter for me, what, 1996? 1997? And fantasy is the genre I will always go back to. I've dabble in scifi, espionage, nonsense (House of Leaves), whatever Cormac McCarthy writes, but I always come back to fantasy, because reading relaxes me before bed, and something similar to the world we live in is not relaxing.
Any luck shifting shadows?
Growing up I loved the Dragonriders of Pern books
A lot of Star Trek novels, always wanted to live in a post scarcity utopian society exploring the universe
Harry potter, Eragon (Inheritance Cycle), and Pendragon
Dragonlance saga by Weis and Hickman, plus all the secondary books in the series.
Goosebumps when I was really young, and Redwall until around grade 5 or 6. Then the golden compass/his dark materials books in grade 5. Then just a bunch of different fantasy books in grade 5 through 8, I read the Hobbit a bunch of times during this period too, then high school was lord of the rings and then wheel of time.
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The mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley...read it when i was sixteen
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Oh my god I had forgotten about Mists of Avalon! Blast from my past. Might have to reread that as an adult.
Not fantasy, but there was a book about this weird entity eating a raven, followed by increasingly larger things like donkeys and children etc. It was all written in a poetic way.
I do remember the happy ending when the thing wanted to eat an old grandma whole along with her food, so she asks protagonist to wait until some food is ready, and then she stabs them in their sleep with a knife.
There is another, unrelated book by the same name that's more popular so searching online was pain. I could not find any pdfs, but here's the cover jpeg in low resolution and the author's name if anyone wants to continue from there.
Oburcuk by Selçuk Taykutgül.
Percy Jackson was my shit growing up
I remember in the fourth grade I crushed an escape sci fi fantasy series written by Bruce Coville. I can't remember the titles of the books, or even any significant plot points... but bizarrely the authors name is still right there.
Lotr, xanth, dragonlance, foundation, the dark tower... hard to pick just one
Wraeththru Chronicles
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Definitely LoTR. I was reading that during the great war between Ballantine Books and Ace Books.
The Venus Equilateral series.
Basically, electrical engineers saving the solar system.
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