What got you in to reading fantasy books?

[le-half-blood-princess]

Ever since I read harry potter when I was 8. It sounds cliched, but it really got me into fantasy.  

[Ziporae]

Same about the HP thing, but I always kind of liked the fantasy genre. Just the usual stuff about it draws me in. 3nodding HP is when I went crazy though I'll hav to admit. I read it when I was about 8 also!  

[Arkyana]

Well, when the first Harry Potter was published, my mom encouraged me to read it. I loved it so much that I read the rest of the Harry Potters and I started looking for other fantasy books like Song of the lioness, his dark materials, Eragon, etc. Since then, I'm crazy for fantasy, maybe too much. I only read fantasy!  

[MathGirl2012]

Oh I dont know. I just sorta picked up a book and said "hey this looks good" read it and got addicted. That's normally how things work. Most likely Tamorra Pierce was the one who really got me hooked. 4laugh  

[Shiama]

It is amazing how many people started their reading fads once they read the Harry Potter series.  

[Setsuna Rainrix]

i remember a time, when i was little, when i hated reading!
(eek gads) burning_eyes
one of my friends, i call her AJ, refused to let me hate reading. She pick up a pierce anthony and began reading it to me. she has a very intrancing voice.
I loved it, but still refused to read on my own.
It was then she stopped reading to me. She made a deal. If she read a page, i HAD to read a page. Needless to say, after being halfway through the first book of the Xanth series, i read.
I've been reading ever since, and that was way back in fifth grade. when i was about 11 years old!  

[demon_of_blackfire]

my frist fantasy book. after i read it i had to read the others in the series then others by the author. the rest is history  

[Variag]

My dad always told me fairytales by bedtime. And you have those funny children books about little-folks with blueberry-hats and faries, and about king winter! No wonder I was hooked...
And then there was Narnia! 4laugh  

[Pwale]

What got me into them? (Smirk) Tis my parents fault. They read me the Earthsea books, and the Hobbit at such an early age (5, and yes, I did understand the books) that I was biased for life. Other books just aren't quite as pleasing or entertaining as fantasy books. wink  

[Jesm]

My sister had been reading this series called the Belgariad by David Eddings and she'd really liked it so I decided to give it a go. I've never looked back smile  

[Sol-chan]

I don't know what my first fantasy book was, I've always loved reading and never understood why others didn't and why they read such simple, tiny books until I was in fourth grade and was slowly excaping from the protective arms of my parents. sweatdrop
I never really cared what genre a book was (didn't even learn what a genre WAS until fifth grade, as sad as that sounds...), I'd read whatever I thought looked or sounded good, and that's what I still do. Wander about the library until I find something that looks interesting.  

[LamingtonQueen]

I've always been big on old-school history - anything before guns, really, in any culture - and mythology, so when my friend gave me the Immortals series to read in year 5, I was hooked, of course biggrin They're great - not as in-depth as some, but I still read them at least once a year even though I'm now in my 3rd year of uni xd I read like, everything she wrote, moved onto David Eddings and some other 'young adult' fiction and then to where I am today sweatdrop  

[x.Marsh[mel]low.x]

I'd have to say the ammount of swordplay and weaponry involved. You just dont get that with most of the other genres, and when you do, it's a load of pointless, action-packed bullshit. Rarely do you find a book that's NOT fantasy that has a swordfight that isn't just randomly stuck in there to look cool.

Anyways, I've been sword obsessive forever, and so I started reading for it, and it just dragged me into the fantasy genre. Now it's dragons I love xd xd

It's just so interesting to see how people play the creatures out. Every book is different.  

[Dancing_Esli]

To be honest I can't remember what got me into fantasy books. sweatdrop But I do know that I really really like reading fantasy books now biggrin  

[Meithanos]

I guess I never lost my "persuit of Magic" as my Theater professor put it. I constantly look outside the box and try to find alternate possibilities to life in general. Fantasy opens most those doors, as does Sci-fi. (Though they are NOT the same thing despite what most bookstores say)

I've always had an overactive imagination as well, so it only makes sense that I'd read books that excercize that.

It didn't hurt any that my mom is a big Sci-fi and Fantasy fan in her reading and she encouraged it in me. I first read Anne McCaffery's Dragondrum in 5th grade and kept going from there.