It just occurred to me that I have no idea of the reading tastes of any of my family. How odd. I got into science fiction in my teens, when I was trolling the school library for something interesting and was intrigued by A is for Android by Andre Norton. Dear Andre, my gateway drug.
Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.
'Bushwhacked'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Jul 20, 2009 8:05:43 am PDT #9660 of 28400
brillig
DavidS - Jul 20, 2009 8:34:07 am PDT #9661 of 28400
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dear Andre, my gateway drug.
Me too. I think I read Daybreak, 2250 and then the Moonstone first.
My folks weren't readers so I backed into fantasy through comic books. In the early seventies, DC published comic book versions of John Carter, Warlord of Mars and (more importantly) Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.
Then I crossed company lines to buy Conan and soon I was haunting the used bookstores for ERB, Howard and Leiber.
Toddson - Jul 20, 2009 8:58:21 am PDT #9662 of 28400
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
hm ... it just struck me that I was reading '50s SF magazines, but comic books were not allowed (except for Junior Illustrated Classics). My father also had various ER Burroughs books, E.E. "Doc" Smith, the Conan books, Ace SF Doubles ... all of which I was reading. But no comics.
Tom Scola - Jul 20, 2009 9:01:28 am PDT #9663 of 28400
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Beverly - Jul 20, 2009 9:17:55 am PDT #9664 of 28400
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
connie and David are me. Daybreak 2250 AD was my maiden voyage, quickly followed by several years' collections of The Year's Best Science Fiction, plus Analog. Asimov, Heinlein, Sturgeon, Bradbury, Ellison, E.E. "Doc" Smith, so much social commentary at a time my social conscience and consciousness was burgeoning. I don't think I read outside the SF/F genres for several years, only branching into gothics as an offshoot of some of the more romantic fantasies. And from thence into historical romance, always with one foot firmly in space/otherworld. It wasn't until my late thirties that non-fiction even registered on my radar.
erikaj - Jul 20, 2009 9:19:19 am PDT #9665 of 28400
Always Anti-fascist!
At twelve, I read Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and some of my mother's procedurals when I thought she wasn't looking.
Beverly - Jul 20, 2009 9:32:15 am PDT #9666 of 28400
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Poul Anderson, Alfred K. Bester, Herbert, Brian Aldiss, Alan Dean Foster, Niven, Gordon Dickson, Delaney, Zelazny, Clarke, the list is endless.
Oh, I'd forgotten, I also devoured Christie, Allingham, Dorothy Sayers, PD James, Ellis Peters/Edith Pargeter, Barbara Michaels(Mertz)/Elizabeth Peters, the last two being mystery-romance-fantasy crossovers or "fusion" as the kids are calling it these days.
I haven't had the same sense of discovery with authors or genres as I had discovering all these people. You think this means maybe I'm jaded?
Volans - Jul 20, 2009 10:00:13 am PDT #9667 of 28400
move out and draw fire
I was reading SF almost as soon as I could read, but could never get into Foundation for some reason.
Jessica is me. I've read Foundation, but it wasn't my first, and I never caught the bug of it.
DavidS - Jul 20, 2009 10:05:51 am PDT #9668 of 28400
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did the Tolkien fans know there was a Shire Radio on Live365 that plays nothing by Tolkien inspired tracks?
StuntHusband - Jul 20, 2009 10:10:14 am PDT #9669 of 28400
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
YES.
However, streaming media is verboten at work, and at home...I own almost all of it. (hands head in shame)