"Davis, Iain E." <feaelin at kemenel.org> writes: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Dyer-Bennet [mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net] > > > 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. > > Same here, at least, that were I my age group. Of course, I'm not sure > how many of my *cough* peers could actually read... Pretty much at all. (The person in 8th grade was my English teacher; he'd loan me a stack of a half dozen or so books from his collection each week to read.) And by the time friends were reading the stuff, I was so far ahead of them they never found anything new for me. Until college, anyway. > Fortunately, my mother had a great many books covering a broad range of > Fantasy and SF plus some Mystery and other things. Throw in the few > westerns I liked from Grandma's collection, and some of the stuff my > Great Grandmother liked (I'm not sure where those fall) I had a pretty > broad selection of books to choose from. Sounds good. We didn't have that much fiction at home, and no sf or fantasy, so it was all from libraries, or mine. I did find Dorothy Sayers at home, I remember. -- 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