What first got you into the YW series?

[G@b!]

i was in my skool cafateria and i just saw it on the table so i brought it to the lost and fond and then like a week later the principal (who loves me because i love to read more then she does) came up to me and said she read it and she thought it was perfect for me. so i read it and it was soooooo good!! i cried when fred died and i fell in love with nita and kit. this was like two years go so the next day i went to barnes and noble and bought the whole series. i also bought wizards at war when it first came out. i flippin love these books!!!!!!!!!

[Dragon Writer]

everyone seems too...well, everyone here anyways! and i for one am not going to let the outside world taint my statement making. *Grins* I have people recomending books for me CONSTANTLY usually teachers. saddly, they tend to reccomend books i can't seem to get. *Shrugs* either way...*wants to say something ELSE but doesn't know how many times i can say i found the book in a library*

[Trialia]

Well, a few years ago now, my friend Amie asked if I'd ever read anything of DD's, and I said I'd never heard of her before. Next time I visited the library, I went looking (you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find the YW series in libraries over here, geez!), and I found On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service... and it began from there. When I hit the USA in December 2005, I wound up bringing home every one except Abroad (which I'd read at the library but couldn't afford at the time) and At War, and I got the latter for Christmas last year. ^_^

[EricG1793]

Well, I think it was a year or two ago that I got a random book called "So You Want To Be A Wizard." I was a bit hesitant to read it, I thought it was some little fairy tale or something, but I did. I thought it was pretty good with a good amount of suspense (not too much suspense that it left me up until eleven at night!). So a year or so later, for my fourteenth birthday, which was this past March 3, my mom completed the series up to book 7. I re-read book 1 so I could remember what it was about. Then I read book 2, I became a bit addicted. By the time I was halfway done with book 2, I was reading every night for forty five minutes or so. Ever since then, I have been reading for forty five minutes, EVERY night. I just finished book 6 last night; off to 7 tonight!

The books just leave me wondering about the world, about what outer space is like, and what things would say to us is we could talk to them; these books really teach you and make sense to me.

Actually, I used to read every night. But then, with seventh grade with homework and so many long-term projects, I really didn't have time to read. I thought that going to bed earlier would be better for me than staying up for an hour or so reading. So I stopped for six months or so, except vividly reading in school every spare minute I could. I was just getting so tired every day, and more tired and more tired and more depressed about my life...

But then I started reading again. The YW series rescued me from that terrible pattern, and I have so much more energy now it's so hard to believe. And I am a lot happier with my life. Probably because seventh grade is almost over has something to do with it; seventh grade in my school is the grade where they really whip you bad; but then apparently eighth grade is better. Well anyway...

As I said before, reading seems to give me a lot more energy each day. Probably because you tire your eyes, so you want to close them longer. It drains you of your last energy from the day, and in the morning you have plenty of fresh new energy. If you didn't read, you try to fall asleep, it takes forever to get asleep, and in the morning some of that old energy is still there, holding you down. The YW series rescued me from this, and the day that the next books come out I'll be hunting for them. Although I still don't have book 8; that's out now, I have to get that. But again tonight I'm going to start reading book 7.

EDIT:

When I said that I didn't have time to read, using the word "time" is incorrect. Opportunity is the correct word. Time is infinite, and when you think about it, if you say you don't have time to do something, you are entirely wrong, because again, time is infinite.

[Elder Math]

You know, I put in how I got involved in my first post.(I didn't want a one liner, but have since put two in without thinking about it...working on it.) and it snagged me as well.

Not only that, but I think it worth mentioning that it was a tumultuous time in my life and the book really took on a ton of meeting. I found it at exactly the right time in my life after passing it by like 100 times previously.

Strange that.

[Dragon Writer]

this thing didn't just ahve to snag me once, it grabbed me TWICE. the first time with the title...the second time i almost fell over myself when i saw it after two years of wondering about the books, on and off...i was running up to the counter begging them to find out what the other books to the series were, and arguing over how i knew wheather or not there WAS a rest of the series! I think i've said htis before, but it adds to the theme of how well this book can snag people...

[LilyFlower]

Well, my friend Zuzanna and me went to Barnes and Noble six months ago, and my dad gave us a hundred and twenty dollars to spend, and we both got like six books each. Then, when we were about to go pay for the books, I was running my hand over the books on a shelf.All of the sudden, My hand stopped, and when I looked, one off the books were sticking out and it caught my hand. I looked at the title, and it said "So You Want To Be A Wizard", and I like to read fantasy, so I decided to give it a try.

[Dragon Writer]

...seems like something out of the book itself. (how it keeps on snagging people) Of course, many people seem to be reliving seens from the book......*wishes mine was that exciting* though, for all i know, it might have been...it WAS years ago (hard to remember the EXACT circumstances that drew my attention to it) But it probably wasn't. Ah well. As long as i have the book.

[I-wanna-be-a-wizard]

I GOT BOOKS 1-5 AT A YARDSALE FOR 1.00!!!!!!!!!

[EricG1793]

Originally posted by I-wanna-be-a-wizard:
I GOT BOOKS 1-5 AT A YARDSALE FOR 1.00!!!!!!!!!

But exactly what motivated you to purchase the books? Was it the cover art? Title? Did you begin reading the first book on spot?

And welcome to the community! Wow, Lee verified your membership very quickly. I think it took a day and a half for me, but you registered and posted on the same day, I guess. Unless the displayed register date is when she verifies it.

Just so you know, you made a one-liner. Those are hated here. If you make a post it should be longer than your signature, which should be six lines or less and have some kind of divider. I won't jump on you with all the details right now; those are pretty much the most important thing newbies have to know (as I found out not so long ago ).

A really helpful thing to read, that unfortunately I didn't find until way after I registered, is the Board FAQ. When you have ten or fifteen minutes, read that. And after you read that you can also read the Chat FAQ. Just read those two threads and you will start out fine.

Good luck, and welcome again! See you around.

[Dragon Writer]

it took me about a WEEK to get in i think. *grumbles* i don't know WHAT hit me exactly....i've said a few times when i read them, but i'm not entiresly sure what it was...probably the title. i think it had the same effect on me as it had on nita (though with nita, it was a REAL manuel, while with me it was just a really good book.) and wow this topic hasn't been posted on in a while...

[breanna]

I got SYWTBAW at school beacause the teacher always let the best reader in the class pick a book from her bookshelf and I picked SYWTBAW

[Mona0622]

a few years ago, my friend let me borrow SYWBAW and told me that it was a very good read. from then on i was hooked. there really isn't that much to the sorry.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, at least you'll be among the stars.~ Les Brown

[Emi]

i kind of wanted something to read because it was summer and stuff. i can't remember if i saw it in a library or if i found it at the bookstore, but it just caught my attention when i read the title, idk it was really weird. it sorta was like nita when she found the book...(if only it was a manual)

[J.A.K_In_B&W]

Support you local wizard...
I had it read to my when I was 5, 6, and 7. I read it myself when I was 8 and older. It got stolen from me in highschool, but by then I found out that the series continued, so I read the rest of the series, and luckily happened uppon another copy of 'Support your local Wizard' at a garage sale, and I grabbed it! I am in university, and still love the series!