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. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info