I joined back in '95, when I got my very first internet connection (a dial-up SLIP account through Northern Arizona University). Life intrudes every couple of years and I go for an extended period of time without checking this particular mail folder, but I always wind up coming back.
I was about 12 years old when I discovered Magician. It was around the same time Magician had been split into two paperback volumes here in the U.S. As a person of refined literary taste, I had only two criteria for buying a new paperback: 1. It MUST have "cool cover art". 2. It MUST be one of a series. None of that "standalone" crap. REAL fantasy readers read series, after all. Not too bad of a list for a 12 year old :) That's about as "refined" as it got back then :) I walked into the local B. Dalton book store in Prescott, Arizona, and headed straight for the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section. I immediately saw "Magician: Apprentice" and "Magician: Master". So, criterion #2 was satisfied. I was even more excited when I opened "Magician: Master" to the final pages and saw the teaser for "Silverthorn". I gave the books a quick once-over and loved the cover art. So, criterion #1 was satisfied. I left the store with both books and I've been a fan ever since. That being said...I am SERIOUSLY behind in my Feist reading! Nat On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Ray Chiang <[email protected]> wrote: > I used to buy new books based on the cover and reading the first and last > 10 pages or so. If it was enough to catch my interest, I'd buy it. That's > happened with Magician:Apprentice back in a B. Dalton's Bookseller in a > nearby shopping center. I'm not 100% certain of the date, but it had to be > before 1987, since I had to wait for the paperback version of A Darkness at > Sethanon. > > I joined the mailing list either Fall 95 (my recollection) or Fall 96 (the > earliest emails I can find in my archives). > > And finally, I'm still waiting on the first Riftwar Saga for the Kindle. > I've got two of the books in the entire Midkemia series, but hoping to > eventually get the rest at some point... > > -Ray > > > On 10/21/2011 12:22 PM, Tim Hickey wrote: > >> >> I've been a member of the list for a while, but I haven't posted... I was >> wondering how everyone found Magician when you read it the first time. >> >> I went to Marist High School in Chicago and my freshman literature >> teacher, Mrs. Littleton had us read both, Apprentice and Master, for >> class... I have been in love with the story ever since. It is now 17 years >> later and it is the only series of books (really the only books) that I >> read... I always read the newest book in 1-2 days (which causes some rough >> mornings the next day). >> >> > >
