Mar-26-2010, 07:10 PM (UTC)
Mervi, you are a fair dinkum legend 
! I come on here as a guest all the time and agree with an earlier post..."this site keeps me sane"!
I have come to love it almost as much as I love the books themselves, as is evidenced by the fact that I'm still sitting here pouring over it about four or five hours after I finally got up enough courage to publish a post instead of just reading everyone else's!
Living on a cattle station in Outback Australia (it's great to see a few Aussies already on here, by the way!), 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 only an 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...
Interestingly, another one such terrific series was Deltora Quest 1, 2 and 3 written by Emily Rodda, and I'd swear she must have read Hobb's books before writing DQ for kids...there are a good portion of specific similarities throughout (can't explain or else there'd be spoilers here), but possibly they are just recurring elements of many novels in the fantasy genre?
Lucky for me, I have since converted my two eldest kids (sons) over to the "Hobb-side" and so am still getting to have great talks with them around the table at every opportunity
!
! I come on here as a guest all the time and agree with an earlier post..."this site keeps me sane"! I have come to love it almost as much as I love the books themselves, as is evidenced by the fact that I'm still sitting here pouring over it about four or five hours after I finally got up enough courage to publish a post instead of just reading everyone else's!
Living on a cattle station in Outback Australia (it's great to see a few Aussies already on here, by the way!), 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 only an 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...
Interestingly, another one such terrific series was Deltora Quest 1, 2 and 3 written by Emily Rodda, and I'd swear she must have read Hobb's books before writing DQ for kids...there are a good portion of specific similarities throughout (can't explain or else there'd be spoilers here), but possibly they are just recurring elements of many novels in the fantasy genre?
Lucky for me, I have since converted my two eldest kids (sons) over to the "Hobb-side" and so am still getting to have great talks with them around the table at every opportunity
!
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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