[Quiet Man Cometh]

I remember my friend was big on Piers Anthony, and he was the first "fantasy" author I heard about. I started reading A Spell for Chameleon but never did get very far. The last I remember was the character trying to ride a hippocampus across a moat to a wizards tower.

It was that same friend who got me interested in fantasy novels, and the first one I grabbed (literally since I picked up a fantasy book on the spur of the moment while heading out on a camping trip) happened to be Salvatore's Homeland. I bought it because the cover, to my surprise, was the same as the cover of the Menzoberranzan computer game I had that had this awesome ass kicking character in it called "Drizzt" :D. I scanned the back of the book and sure enough, his name was there. I was all of 11 and thought this was the coolest thing ever. I read 10 chapters into the book that trip but didn't finish it until much later, my sister having burned her way through that trilogy and the next one already. She read Garfield like crazy and I made a deal with her that if she read Homeland (since she liked the game too) that I would stop bugging her about not reading anything.

Menzoberranzan is an old computer game based on Salvatore's novel The Legacy. It was my first go at a first person rpg since Dungeonmaster when I was 5. The attack style was fairly basic. Put the mouse on the monster and click as fast as you can. Well, more like click then the proper icon comes up or when the time comes aroud but that more thought than I wanted to put into it at the time.

I have one of Mercedes Lackey books on my eReader since I decided to look at her stuff only to discover it's been really hard to find. I read a piece of fanfiction that was a crossover with two of her books. Can't remember the precise titles but they are popular trilogies. Arrows of the Queen, I think is one, and the other is First/Last Mage of something-or-other. I'm told the latter trilogy is pretty much an exercise in angst.