tell me a story, game!

[solo_sword]

So with the new kids coming in and showing off their shiny new fandoms, I'm curious.

How'd you get into your canon?

Did you just pick it up one day and found yourself unable to put it down, or did someone (maybe from this game) drag you into it? How long have you been into it? Was there any one thing or character that hooked you on it? This is your chance to wax nostalgic and go on about what made your canon so cool for you. If there's a story behind it, tell us! And if there's not... tell us anyway!

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[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

I read ridiculously fast and always have (My mom stopped buying me Babysitters Club books because I'd have it finished in the 20 minute car ride between the store and home), so I'm always looking for books that are thick that will last me more than a few hours.

While loitering in the sci-fi section, seeing if there was a new Star Wars book (in a time before I had internet. OMG dark ages), I saw the Wheel of Time. And the books were ridiculously thick. Like, breaks the front cover off of the paperback thick. And the cover art was absolutely ridiculous (there's a website devoted to mocking them (http://linuxmafia.com/~pam/cover_art.html)), but I was in college majoring in poli sci and if I didn't find something other than Aristotle and de Toqueville to read my head was going to explode. So I picked up the first book, was kind of "eh" about it until the boys got separated and then hoooooooooly cow. I was up until 4 in the morning three nights running trying to finish it and went back to the store to get the next one not a week later.

I read fast enough that I caught up to where Robert Jordan was still writing them, so I waited anxiously for Winter's Heart to come out (finding my very first online chat group along the way), and bemoaning how nothing was happening for books at a time.

And this year the latest book came out, things are actually Happening, and we might get a genuine End to this Damn Story.

[glacial_queen]

That's how I got into Mercedes Lackey! My mom brought me to a bookstore for my 11th birthday, and I was debating between Winds of Change and some other random book. I was bringing other random book to the counter when I stopped to check the page count for that one and then went back to check Winds of Change.

WoC was longer (by, like, 4 pages) so I set other random book down and got WoC instead.

And then had to buy ever Misty book EVER.