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Donaldson (was RE: A question re: Beginning Fantasy for Youth)

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Tue Nov 26 09:25:05 PST 2002

Tucker <jazzfish at softhome.net> writes:

> >I'm curious.  A question especially for those who responded strongly to my
> >recommendation for the Covenant series, how old were you when you read them,
> >if you recall.
> 
> Um. Eleven? Fifth grade, I think. Any subtleties were basically
> incomprehensible (meaning I Missed The Point Entirely) but I read them
> anyway.
> I wouldn't have recommended Donaldson to myself at that age, but I
> hadn't quite reached the point where I could walk into a
> bookstore/library and start on a new author on my own, and someone
> else recommended him.

I'm sure I was picking new authors on my own at 9.  Maybe earlier.
Until I was in 8th grade, I wasn't around anybody else who was into
fantasy and SF, so I didn't get many suggestions.
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