First Fantasy Novel You Read

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2003-07-10 09:08pm

This will date me, the first fanatsy novel I ever read was the screenplay novel for Dragonslayer. I was in Junior High at the Time.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-07-10 09:14pm

A Russian translation of the Hobbit. I was in the 5th grade at the time.

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-fgalkin

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-07-10 09:14pm

Depends on how you define fantasy. I couldn't tell you the first one that I read.

But classical fantasy? The Hobbit.

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2003-07-10 09:19pm

I cannot remeber when I first read the Hobbit. I know I read the Novel "Star Wars" in Junior Highschool but I cannopt remember when. Before Dragonslayer, I used to read Hardy Boys and that other similar series about the three kids who had a secret base in a salvage yard

Sindai · Post by **Sindai** » 2003-07-10 09:23pm

I haven't got a clue. Whenever it was, it was a long time ago...I probably read The Hobbit when I was 10 or so, and Lord of the Rings at 12.

I read the Xanth books at a pretty young age too...and the whole Conan series in sequence...Yeah, my house had a kickass library in its basement.

TheFeniX · Post by **TheFeniX** » 2003-07-10 09:24pm

Probably the original Dragonlance trilogy.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-07-10 09:29pm

A novelization of Arthurian myths for young readers by Roger Lancelyn Green. Great book, really got me into Arthurian literature.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-07-10 09:35pm

I think it was Mort by Terry Pratchett...i'm not sure. Some time in primary school.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-07-10 10:11pm

Good grief... that was a LONG time ago. My best guess is that it was probably Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. What a beautiful story.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-07-10 10:17pm

oi...uh...probably either Wrinkle in Time or Hobbit

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-07-10 10:18pm

*Whistles* I have no idea, first one I remember reading is DragonLance.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-07-10 10:29pm

One of the Narnia books when I was very, very young(probably read to me, actually), and the Hobbit in 4th grade.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-07-10 10:40pm

A Wrinkle in Time, 5th grade.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-07-10 10:47pm

Dragons Milk I was in 3rd grade at the time... I was all non-fiction before then(never set foot in the kids section of the library)

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-07-11 04:04am

The True Game
Probably nobody's heard of it, but I think it was the first. Pretty long too, also the first book I read that was in english.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-11 04:06am

Probably The Hobbit.

Equinox2003 · Post by **Equinox2003** » 2003-07-11 05:04am

Mine was The lion the witch and the wardrobe. I must have been about 14
at the time.

Post by **Edi** » 2003-07-11 05:05am

The Hobbit, only it happened to be the Dragon Mountain translation (the first translation into Finnish was titled Lohikäärmevuori, literally Dragon Mountain), where every single name had been mangled beyond recognition and dumbed down to Teletubby level (e.g. Bifur, Bofur and Bombur are Pihnu, Puhnu and Kuhnu, which would be something like Wheezy, Gaspy and Tardy in English). Urrrgh! Where the hell is the vomit smiley when you need one? Fortunately my first experience with that was my father reading the book to us, and he substitued the actual names as they are in the later translation (and all the originals) for the mangled ones.

Edi

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-07-11 05:28am

I believe it was 'A Wizard of Earthsea." I don't remember when, but it was a long time ago. It was 1:00am and I was bored, so I read it. It was finished shortly. Soon after that I had the rest of its series ordered.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-07-11 06:53am

I honsestly can't remember if it was "Once and Future King" or "The Hobbit" it was 25 years ago at least....

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-07-11 07:30am

The Hobbit. While my group in the 5th grade reading class got it, the other class had "The Phantom Tollbooth". After reading(I finished it in three hours) and comparisons(Not many similarities), we watched the movies. My ears have still not completely recovered.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-07-11 07:40am

There might have been others before (L'Engle, Lewis) but the first fantasy book that I clearly remember reading was The Source of Magic by Piers Anthony. Not the most auspicious start.

Sindai · Post by **Sindai** » 2003-07-11 07:57pm

Oh yeah, I read the Earthsea trilogy and the Narnia books ridiculously early too...

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-07-11 09:22pm

Do Tarzan books count. I suppose they were intended to be sci-fi but...?

Otherwise it was probably the Hobitt followed closely by The Sword of Shannara

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-07-11 09:42pm

Kitsune wrote: I used to read Hardy Boys and that other similar series about the three kids who had a secret base in a salvage yard

Yes... they had something to do with Alfred Hitchcock... and were far less contrived for endings than Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew books.

My first Fantasy novel? Hard to recall... but among the first ones were "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" and "A Wizard Of EarthSea"