What first got you into the YW series?

[Book freak]

Hmmm....My dad is always picking out book he thinks I'd like (he's not always necesarrily right, but anywho) when we go to the bookstore on our never-constant trips. One day he pointed to this absolutely lame-looking book that just happened to be next to SYWTBAW. I read the back and thought it looked interesting...But I didn't have enough money to get all the books I'd already picked out and SYWTBAW, so I left it. About a year later, I say it again and noticed there were ones after it. I bought up to the fourth one and ended up searching for the rest at a local bookstore in my hometown afterwards (we lived in this tiny town where everyone knew each other in NV. There was only *gasp* one tiny bookstore in the whole place. Shocking, I know...)

[kittymeow]

I found the YW series by one day I was in the library at school and saw A Wizard Alone. I was really into books about wizards and I was itching to find somwthing to read untill the next Harry Potter book. I tried to read it but it made NO sence what so ever. I was like this is stupid. This dude is talking to his TV? So I took it back. But on the front I noticed the words: written by the author of So You Want to be a Wizard. I was like, that sounds good. One day when I was in the public library and I was scanning the shelves for something to read, when I can across the book with the title So You Want to be a Wizard. I remembered the title from the other book. I got it, read it, and became obsessed with it. When I got to A Wizard Alone, it made so much more sence an wasnt stupid anymore because I understood. So yeah. My life story right there. lol

[MagikMelody]

I told my sister i was bored and had nothing to read (i do that often). She handed me "So You Want TO Be a Wizard" "Deep Wizardry" and "High Wizardry" and told me to read them or else :P

[Josh]

Let's see...oh, yeah. In fifth grade I was in a bookstore, I don't know which one though, looking for books to buy for our vacation we were going on. So, my mom picked out SYWTBAW, Deep Wizardry, and AWAbroad. I didn't realize I was missing a book in there until after I finished AWAbroad. Nw I have them all.

[Slash]

Now, Let me tell you what got me out of the books!
Well I was sitting on a stool at Target it was by thr book section. And I was there to get the Nick mag! And I over saw a book called Tiger. I picked it up and said "This looks like a good book, too read after the YW books!" So I started too read the first page and thought it was very good! So I bought it. Now when I got home I started too read the YW book "a wizard Alone" It was boirig me too death! So I just picked up the Tiger book and read it at this moment I am on page 62! Well I still have too admit thoe I will all ways remeber the day I saw the yw book all beat up right nexed too the famois HP book....

[YoungWizard@heart]

Well I already read all the Harry Potter books. I wanted to read a new kind of book . I went to Barnes & Noble and saw So You Want To Be A Wizard .I decided to look through and in the end I bought it. Now I have almost all the books and it has become one of my favorite bbok seies.Diane Duane is a really good author.

[Wizard_of_the_waters]

I went to chapters and saw this series but I couldn't get it with all the other books I was getting, so I left it there. The next few times I totally forgot about them until I had more than enough books. Finally I remembered and bought them right away!

[pixie]

The first one I read was A Wizard Abroad. I found it in the library when I was about 10 and reread it many times. When I was 14 I moved house and at some point found the first three in the library near us. I loved them and when I went on holiday to America I bought A Wizard's Dilemma. (I'm the kind of person who reacts to a holiday in America with "Hmm bookshops I can buy American books out of print in the UK.") I've since bought A Wizard Alone from Amazon. I like being able to buy books from the internet but I miss the excitement of unexpetedly discovering a book in a library.


-Rose

[Wizardling]

I was in Tauranga Public Library when I was about 13, I guess. I found SYWTBAW in the YA section, read the blurb after liking the cover (it was the Corgi PB edition), and thought it sounded kinda interesting. I began reading it there, continued waiting in the car for my Mum later on, then finished it later that night at home. I then re-read it more than any other book I ever borrowed from a library. My family had no choice but to buy me the first three books for the next holiday :-)

[Miko]

It was luck on my part. I as looking for a long-ish book to listen too and came across the YW series. I'm glad I stumbled across it as I tend to go through audio books rather quickly.

[Onua Wingstar]

SYWTBAW literally just caught my eye as I was walking by a shelf in a bookstore, almost the way Nita's manual snagged her hand. I picked it up, read the back, and decided it was something special. I soon bought the others that were out at the time (only the first four) and read them in order. I remember being dissapointed that DW was only second in the series - it looked so good, I wanted to save it for last!

It was thrilling to find a book that I connected to so deeply; I've said this before, but in a way, the YW seems to have more "immediacy" than the HP books. (Not that I don't love those to death!)

[Slash]

You know have you ever wonderd that not just the title got you in to the book? May be it was the front cover...I mean I think I liked the series but I also think I pushed my self too read it... *looks worried*

[Peter Murray]

In my case, I was probably checking the bookshop to see if DD's Door into Starlight was out yet, and found the first four YW books. So it wasn't the title or the cover, it was DD's name that got me to buy either the first book or all four - I can't remember now. It would have been about 1994 - can't have been earlier, as I hadn't moved to the town where I bought them until June of that year.

[bookworm6]

I remember 4 years ago when my mom was trying to get me more books to read (I was complaining that I had nothing to read.) She picked up the boxed set but I said that I would just buy the first in case I didn't like it (yeah, right.) I read the first three the weekend after that when we went to the cottage.

[musical_babe_1o1]

For me, I could never get enough of books. When I was in the library, I was looking on those spinning shelves and I saw this book, it caught my eye, just because it was thicker than all of the others. I read the back and then ended up finding all the way up to #4 and reading them that week, ever since, I've been hooked!