How did you get involved with RotE (spoilers Farseer, TM & Soldier Son)

[Farseer]

For the sake of contributing, I have just copied and pasted parts of my intro post:

Living on a cattle station in Outback Australia, I have had to do a fair bit of flying in and out of major cities over the years and it was in the Brisbane Airport only about four years ago that I first came across AA. It was a short, hour and a half flight but I made sure I purchased RA and AQ from the Townsville Airport as soon as I landed! From there on, I got the rest of Robin Hobb's books sent out on the mail so am now good mates with Angus and Robertson staff in Townsville (which is about 600kms away from the homestead).

Before that, I couldn't remember the last time I'd read a book meant for an adult audience...my prior reading material had consisted solely of youth novels which I read with my kids so that we could chat about books together (pathetic excuse, I know, but there ARE some fantastic kids books out there!). We had been reading the brilliant Ranger's Apprentice series together at the time and so it was the word 'apprentice' that first drew me to AA...

Husband is almost finished FE, youngest son has read all Hobb books, including the SS series, and my eldest son is STILL reading SOM. My daughter can't wait to "grow up so I can read about Fitz" !!!