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Post by tomjsturner on Mar 17, 2005 9:33:49 GMT -5
Can't find a thread like this anywhere so i thought I would start one.
I was jus wondering what peoples 'journey to SRl' was, by this I mean how you came by Lawhead etc.
I first heard of Lawhead at school 10 years ago, whe his pendragon books were in the school Library, and though at that point I didn't borrow the books and read them the name stuck. and every now and again i wouild think about the books and try snd find them, but with avail (the library got rid of there copies shortly after I saw them.) then aboutaround five years after that I got the first Dragon King book for my birthday, but never got around to reading it - unfortunatly at that point I wasn't much of a reader.
Then in Sheffield a year or two after that I stumbled upon 'Taliesin' and bought it, though when I started first time i failed, it stayed on my book shelf until about 18 months agho when I thought I would ty once more. It was then that i got hooked, and have not stopped reading him since.
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Post by Riothamus on Mar 17, 2005 14:59:33 GMT -5
Well, the first time I heard about SRL was in some fifth-rate book by one of the Marrses--Secret Lies of the New Age, or some such drek. They insisted that Lawhead was secretly part of the New Age movement because he was writing about King Arthur!  About the same time, I read good reviews of the Dragon King books in an old issue of Christianity Today, so I suppose that balanced out.... Some years later, I stumbled across the first two books in the Dragon King trilogy at a bargan in a Christian Bookstore, and got my mom to get 'em for me. But I didn't read them until three or four years ago, after I bought Taliesin and read it. The rest is, of course, history. |
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Post by Hnefi on Mar 17, 2005 16:25:15 GMT -5
I'd always been interested in Dark Age history, and saw the first three books of the Pendragon Cycle in my local bookshop in 1992, read them all in three days love the lot and have read everything he's written since
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Post by calixar on Mar 18, 2005 0:34:02 GMT -5
1985... a friend gave me the Dragon King boxed set... for Christmas, I think. Same friend gave me Dream Thief a few months later for graduation and my parents got me the Empyrion books. All the old Crossway editions.
From there I started buying the Pendragon books as each was published.
Those are all books I wish I had in hardcover.
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Post by twyrch on Mar 18, 2005 10:41:12 GMT -5
Let's see... 6th grade would put me in 1988-1989 school year.... My friends were reading the Pendragon Cycle. I was making fun of the name Taliesin. Said it was a stupid name, probably a stupid book and I'd never heard of the author, so he was probably stupid too...
So my friends dared me to read it and I did just to show them how stupid I thought it was. I loved them! I then picked up every book he had written, the Dragon King series, Empyrion Saga and Dream thief...
When I finished those, SoA was just being published and I moved on to that.... The rest is history. I own all of his books as first edition hard covers except for Dream Thief, Dragon King Trilogy, Empyrion Saga, the original Pendragon books and of course, Patrick which I have as an ARC.
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Post by CynanMachae on Mar 18, 2005 13:22:00 GMT -5
My memory is bad ;D I cant remember that far back...
lesse, my dad read the pendragon cycle to me and my two older brothers when I was about 10 I guess, and the dragon king series was SRLs first books I read on my own(i was 13, 14 or so). Shortly after that, I read Albion, my dad read Avalon to us, and I was hooked.
Patrick has been the peak of his books for me, although i also really enjoyed Albion, which are probably his best.
Also, what really got my dad hooked on them- which he eventually read to us- was JEFF JOHNSON and BRIAN DUNNING. These guys are super-talented, and we all loooove their music.
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Post by debinoxford on Mar 18, 2005 15:20:59 GMT -5
well, it all began when i was born. seriously. my parents have been hooked on his readings since they were married and when a new book came out my parents would stay up all night reading them. when i started to read i quickly jumped reading levels (i read LOTR in 4th grade) and by sixth grade i was hooked on SRL. favorite book would have to be Dream Thief, closely followed by the song of albion trilogy. anyway, sorry about the sidetrack, so it was sixth grade i guess....and i haven't turned back since. :-)
debi
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 19, 2005 10:27:31 GMT -5
I've been reading at post-college level since fourth grade... and I read voraciously. Hence, my library was looking rather threadbare by seventh grade, when I recieved Empyrion as a graduation gift. I read them within two days. I believe sometime before that I had recieved Taliesin, but, being a conscientous little Christian, put it down and forgot about it at the point when Charis sings "I am Atlantis... Atlantis... Atlantis." A year or so later I picked it up again and was wonderfully surprised. I managed to have my parents procure Merlin for me, and I then went looking for Mr. Lawhead's books at the library. They had just one... The Paradise War. I loved it so much that I managed to get my parents to buy me all three. It took me several years to procure anything else, but I got Patrick last summer and the rest of the books with my Christmas money this year.
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Post by dinadan on Mar 21, 2005 19:37:19 GMT -5
Thanks to a particularly horrible mouth surgery, I had lots of time to read--and just happened to pick up the albion books to do so.
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Post by LadyofAlbion on Mar 24, 2005 16:07:36 GMT -5
I think I was about 13 or 14 when I read my first Lawhead books - The Pendragon Cycle. I'm not sure when I first heard about Mr Lawhead - my mom and older sister loved his books before I ever touched one.
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Post by amodman on Apr 3, 2005 23:41:03 GMT -5
There a was a christian book store booth set up at this convention thing and on the last day they were sellin these really cool fantasy books for a buck each called the Paradise War, the Silver Hand, and the Endless Knot  . |
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Post by Gwalchmai on Apr 7, 2005 12:24:31 GMT -5
I'm really into the Arthurian Legands so whever I see some sort of book pretaining to them, I get them. Oddly enough, I found the Pendragon Cycle by accident while browsing through Barnes and Noble. Picked up the whole series and read them through and enjoyed them well enough. At the time, for me it semed to be a very odd version of the story so when I remembered I'd do a little historical research of my own. It hasn't been until the past couple of years that I really appreciated the work of art this story is. EverytimeI go through it I find something new.
For instance, reading Taliesin and Elaine tells Charis and her mother the name of her baby boy, Peredur. Its the welsh? pronounciation for Percival who is said to be the nephew of the Fisher King, Avallach. When I figured that one out I was all... thats awsome!
Anyways, I've tried his celtic crusades series and still working on Byzamtium but the going with that is so so. The Pendragon Cycle is by far my favorite and of all the books I posses, are the only ones I'm considering getting second copies because mine are just falling apart... literally.
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Post by calixar on Apr 8, 2005 15:41:21 GMT -5
Peredur is the original name of Percival/Parsifal/Perceval...
The original Grail seeker from before it was called "the Grail."
Read The Mabinogion.
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Post by twyrch on Apr 8, 2005 21:44:51 GMT -5
Peredur is the original name of Percival/Parsifal/Perceval... The original Grail seeker from before it was called "the Grail." Read The Mabinogion. Mabinogion, eh? Interesting title.... Did that have anything to do with Druidry? Mabinog – Pronounced [MA-bin-og] meaning the lowest order of druid. An acolyte |
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Post by dinadan on Apr 9, 2005 9:28:53 GMT -5
the Mabinogian is the surviving collection of ancient Welsh tales...you should try the translation done by Lady Charlotte Guest in the late 19th century.
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