How did you discover the Land?

danlo60 · **Joined:** Thu Mar 28, 2002 2:23 am **Posts:** 3363

..there u go! How far do you fall Pilot?

MsMary · **Joined:** Mon Apr 29, 2002 9:07 pm **Posts:** 1096

So how did you discover the Land?

Let's hear your stories!

~MsMary~

Edit: danlo, this is the only forum not automatically set for HTML disabled, which is why my ezcodes haven't been working. I have to remember the uncheck the HTML box on the bottom of the reply screen each time. "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"Edited by: MsMaryMalone at: 6/13/02 9:39:25 am

danlo60 · **Joined:** Thu Mar 28, 2002 2:23 am **Posts:** 3363

I didn't realize that--will try 2 fix! How far do you fall Pilot?

fightingmyinstincts · **Joined:** Tue Apr 09, 2002 5:20 pm **Posts:** 4

Hey danlo, I came to the board! MMM, love your Nix quote, wrote it down in my quotes book when I read the series, so I did, and is Abhorsen (the third one) ever gonna come out? Or has it already and the library is remiss in its duties? And anyway, here follows my tragic story...

My mom has a habit of buying those two-dollar sacks of used books from the back of the library, and she particularly picked out the first chrons (the copies with the red, blue, and green covers respectively) especially because she new my dad liked those books a lot and I might too...So I read them a couple of times, found the second chrons, read those in one weekend of frantic, bodily-function denying reading,
and then I found the watch... g
\ps cooooooool emoticons! Love the "luke" one....hehheh....

Covenant Jr · **Joined:** Fri Jul 05, 2002 11:08 pm **Posts:** 10

It's all thanks to my dad.....................he was there!

But seriously, it was actually my dad. I was about 16, and he discovered I liked reading fantasy. So he fished out his old copy of LFB (the only book of the Chronicles he still owned). He told me that even though it was a bit thoughtful and deep (Dad likes action-packed books, when he reads at all), even he had enjoyed it. I read it, loved it (though I hated TC himself, of course ) and went in search of more

King Mudd · **Joined:** Sat Jun 29, 2002 2:45 am **Posts:** 111

I was walking thru BN like thee days ago and I recalled everybody's love for Donaldson so I bought Lord Foul's Bane. Its okay so far. Some of the charcters are annoying and I was disappointed b/c Lena and Atiaran both just left the story. Of course I won't be shocked if they come back. Its soewhat predictable, I was yelling at the book that there was gonna be an ambush at Soaring Woodhelven, and sure enuf, there was. What crazy person watches soccer at four in the mornin?

danlo60 · **Joined:** Thu Mar 28, 2002 2:23 am **Posts:** 3363

Hang it there! It gets better and better! Mathematics is a game. It's pieces are the axioms we create, and it's rules our logic. That mathematics is occasionally useful to mechanics and pilots is accidental -Mahavira Lal, third Lord Cantor

King Mudd · **Joined:** Sat Jun 29, 2002 2:45 am **Posts:** 111

Good. I'm sure it does. What crazy person watches soccer at four in the mornin?

MsMary · **Joined:** Mon Apr 29, 2002 9:07 pm **Posts:** 1096

Hey, fightingmyinstincts, glad to see you at the Hangar, and to hear your "finding the Land story" ... :

And glad to see another Nix fan. Check out my Garth Nix thread, I believe it's in the fantasy forum of this board.

~MsMary~ "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"Edited by: danlo60 at: 7/15/02 3:09:20 pm

Turiya Foul · **Joined:** Sun Feb 23, 2003 2:08 am **Posts:** 110

Here's my story. Two years ago I was 10 and one really weird kid. I found the Wounded Land on my mom's bookshelf and started reading. I started writing my own different versions, quoting the books, and singing the songs. I'm pretty good at singing "You Are Mine", if I do say so myself.

~Turiya Foul, Raver and Keeper~

mhoram6910 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 31, 2002 3:45 pm **Posts:** 933

Where did you go from the Wounded Land? He whose desires have been throttled,
who is independent of root,
whose pasture is emptiness-
signless and free-
his path is as unknowable
as the of birds across the heavens.
Dhammapada (93)

Turiya Foul · **Joined:** Sun Feb 23, 2003 2:08 am **Posts:** 110

In this order: TWL, TOT, WWW, LFB, IEW, TPTP

The first Chrons were with one of my cousins at the time when I was reading the second Chrons.

~Turiya Foul, Raver of the Land~

mhoram6910 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 31, 2002 3:45 pm **Posts:** 933

Huh, almost read the backwards,eh? He whose desires have been throttled,
who is independent of root,
whose pasture is emptiness-
signless and free-
his path is as unknowable
as the of birds across the heavens.
Dhammapada (93)

Turiya Foul · **Joined:** Sun Feb 23, 2003 2:08 am **Posts:** 110

Yep. Nearly backwards.

Highdrake · **Joined:** Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:23 am **Posts:** 586

About 22 years ago, I got a copy of Dragonriders of Pern. I told a friend that I was just about to start it, and he said, "Here, try this instead."

And I still haven't read any Pern books! lol ____________
Highdrake's mastery of spells and sorcery was not much greater than his pupil's, but he had clear in his mind the idea of something very much greater, the wholeness of knowledge. And that made him a mage.

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