Where did everyone find these books?

[Birdhead]

Well, I don't actually know, but I guess S&G would remain property of Paul Simon or the songwriter (almost always Paul. Because he ROX... but anyway...) and non-published stuff is DDs.
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[Mousey]

Eh... *hunts through brain* I first found SYWTBAW next to my bed, and I kinda freaked out, thinking it was a joke. But as I was already hooked on HP, I picked it up and opened it. Hooked, as soon as I read the first page. I found the URL to here on my mom`s copy of the fifth or sixth book, and then here I am!

[Bookwyrm Poet]

it was when I was about 7, it was the month after my brothers birthday, he had just turned 9, and one of his gifts was a small paperback book. I had always been the bigger reader and i snuck into his room to check out this book. On the cover i saw a scary tree with an evil face and a bird eating fire hydrant, both in the background behind two young kids, a boy and a girl. i opened it and started reading, and finished the book about 6 hours later, head stuffed with a tale of joy and sorrow, and of a place called timeheart. I now have all eight books, most including the newer version of SYWTBAW, in paper back, but i have W'sH and W@W in hardcover.

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[A Traveller with Magic]

I was in my school library in grade seven- we had to choose a free reading book, or we would get detention if we didn't have anything suitable to read *shifty eyes*. There wasn't much that was worth reading, and I was, well, desperate for something that wouldn't bore me to death within the first hour. And I saw Deep Wizardry (My library only has DW and TWD *sigh*), so I signed it out. I didn't have any great expectations of the book- it looked like one of those really kiddish stories where the person would go on this oh-so-perilous quest and discover something and live happily ever after. But by the end of Deep Wizardry, I absolutely had to get the other books . I was so jealous when my friend got hold of High Wizardry before me (I recommended DW and TWD to her, of course), and since then I've reread the series at least 3 times, made the library booksale my first stop every time I look for books, and am still trying to figure out how to read TVTQ without having to order it online.

[Lamarquise]

The title of the first one must have caught my eye in the library. (I'm surprised I didn't find these long before I did.) Then I listened to Deep Wizardry and was hooked. Fun stuff!

[Dragon Writer]

I don't know where I got the first book. In a library, I think. It was kind of a strange feeling, when I first saw it, like the feeling Nita felt when she first saw it. You know, that "could this be real?" feeling?" As it turned out, it wasn't. I admit, though, I still get kind of hopeful whenever I read the oath in one of the books. I mean, can you belame me? Besides being addicted to fantisy stories, I also want to be a fantasy writer, and what writer doesn't dream of having there world come to life? Imagine my dissapointment though when I couldn't find another one of those books for the life of me. I only found the second one last month. I've been having to order them over the library. as it is i'm only at wizard abroad. Still, I'm looking forward to enjoying the other books.

[Alyson-Devereaux]

I was in Chapters bookstore near my grandma's place (in Canada) three years ago, and I saw So You Want... and started reading it right there (as you do). I really liked it, so I got it out of the library while I was there. I read up to AWA while I was there, but never bought any (what was I thinking!). Then I went home to Australia. They're out of print here! Argh! Fortunately my Canadian relatives didn't know what to get me for Christmas this year, so about a week ago I scored AWAbroad, AWD, AWAlone, Dilemma, Holiday and W@W!

[campsoup1988]

I would going through the scifi/fantasy section of my public library and wizzard alone cought my eye!

[singer]

i needed something to read. had a library field day. checked out about 10 books. A Wizard Alone was one of them. the last one i read out of the bunch. wasn't sure about it. so glad i change my mind. sitting her typing with the Wizard's Dilemma in my lap. i prefer Spot in my lap. oh well.

[Shea]

I found SYWtbaW at the library and I'm like, "Hmmmm, this looks fairly interesting.". It was so funny because the way I came across it on the shelf was exactly like how Nita did.

[Kathy Li]

balthasar wrote: (in what WAS the "You and YW" thread)...
How did you come by the Young Wizardry Series? Share yours. v That's mine down there v

(I feel like I'm telling alove story or something) Coincidentally I was in the library (like Nita), bored and I checked out the youth sections (this was like 4 years ago). It was, and still is, my daily routine to go to the library and see if there was anything good to read. I read quite fast, so I usually pulled out like 5 books each visit. At the time, I had read every "interesting" book in the section, and i came by So You Want to Be a Wizard. I ead the back, and I was like "Okay, I'll give this a try". Since then, I have read every sequential book I can get my hands on.

So I want ot hear yours.

[moved over into an existing thread, rather than starting up a new one all over again. Sorry, Balthasar, about killing your authorship on this one, but as you can see, it's a discussion that's been ongoing for some time. --kli]

[Small town]

I was in Barns and Noble Mayish 05 and i was looking at an Artemus Fowl book that i wanted but it was only in hardcover and it was $15 and i didnt want to ask my mum for extra money. So as im looking around to see if they had another book for less than $10 that I hadnt read befor I saw SYWTBAW. I took it off the shelf and looked at the back and got hooked so I bought it.
After that i got the other books in order from many bookstores and recently got an origonal DW from my school library practicly brand new.

Thats why you have to deal with a with a mad wierdo.

[Gryphon]

I got So You Want to be a Wizard as a Christmas gift, along with my first set of Tamora Peirce's books. When I had trouble sinking into the first YW book, I ditched it for the Protector of the Small series, which was both catchy and fun. I didn't pick up SYWtbaW until later when I went on a camping trip, and brought this book along to give it a second try. I was hooked, and after that, I've gotten as many as I can in paperback (I hate hardcovers), with the exception of the last two. Because of the forums :P , I was pressured to get them as soon as I could and couldn't wait for the paperbacks.

[katiedidnt]

The first copy I found was of the first three novels in one volume called Support your Local Wizard. I thought these were the only ones in existance, and I must have checked them out from my library 8 or 10 times. Several years later, I was in a Books-a-Million and I caught sight of Abroad and Dilemma in their snazzy new covers. I spent all the money I had on me at the time to buy them immediately. And I've never looked back. On a side note, I've suceeded in getting my roommate addicted as well.

[Dee]

Up until about a year ago, I had never read any but 1,3, and 7. I owned all the books, but I could never get into the other ones. I think I was just too young when I first got them (I was 9) to really understand the full depth of her books. So when I introduced my older brother to the books, and he read all of them, well, I had to read them all too! I reread all of them, and I realized just what I had been missing out on. I was bawling when I reread SYWTBAW, when Nita rewrites the LP's name, because I realized what I had missed by not reading thoughroughly. The possibility had never entered my mind that DD would write an eighth book, I just hadn't thought about it. So when W@W came out, I almost fainted. I mean, it was so thick! Wow! And the title? GAaaaah! *faints*