At 5:43 PM -0500 12/28/04, MedCat7 at aol.com wrote: > >When did everyone discover the wonder that is Steven K.Z. Brust and >what got you all in to it? Embarassingly enough, I bought _Jhereg_ while in high school in hopes of impressing a boy I had a crush on (he had effervesced over the volume). I also bought _Yendi_, the only other Dragaera book out at the time, because I figured I'd want it after I had gotten around to reading the first one. Then I bought _Teckla_ when it came out, because I *still* hadn't gotten around to it. In fact, I didn't get around to it until I was in college, so I never got to discuss it with my crush. But on a family vacation right before my sophomore year, I brought the series along to serve as hotel reading material, and once I had cracked them open, my family very nearly had to prise them from my hands with a crowbar to get me to do anything else all weekend! Thank goodness we were home by the time I got to _Teckla_, however, as I cried for something like 2 days after reading it (going through a rough patch with the ol' boyfriend, wouldn't you know it!). I very geekily wrote down all the lines I thought particularly funny, along with the Cycle poem itself, in poster form to hang in my dorm room. Then I rendered the Cycle poem in illuminated calligraphy. =) You can bet _Taltos_ did *not* sit around on my bookshelf before I devoured it. My favorites thus far are _Issola_, _Dragon_, and _To Reign In Hell_. --Melissa -- http://www.melissagay.com