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Post by Paidooooooo on Apr 21, 2004 1:12:19 GMT
yeh one day I'll log in :-)
I'm guessing atleast 20, simply because of the time many of these books were written.
Myself I'm 23 and still a student, which is abit of a joke tbh. I must have been about 7/8 years old when I used to read these
Apart from 'Flight from the Dark and 'Fire on the Water' which I read online I haven't read any of these books for ages.
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Nerethel
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Post by Nerethel on Apr 21, 2004 2:57:16 GMT
I'm 33 years old. Ancient beyond measure. Has it really been 20 years? Wow...
'Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'... Into the future.....'
Nerethel
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Post by Relenoir on Apr 21, 2004 3:02:57 GMT
Yeah, I'm right up there too, at 31. More like 16 years since I discovered them...yikes. Guess what Steve Miller said was true, Nerethel.
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Post by Ofecks on Apr 21, 2004 5:02:47 GMT
Just turned 24 today. ;D I got into the books way after their release in the US, during middle school ('92-93). In 7th grade, I knew a guy who had the entire Kai/Magnakai/Grey Star series and he let me borrow them all. 7th grade sure did suck large quantities of ass, but the books helped to keep my mind off of the crap. I didn't get my own copies until high school. By then all the fellow geeks were into Magic The Gathering, but I never bothered with it, opting for adventures throughout Magnamund instead.
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Post by jimy on Apr 21, 2004 5:52:29 GMT
im 19, i think i read chasm of doom when i was like ... 8 or 9. i kinda wish i was older, i would have brought all the books, but i had to rely on my dad buying them for me, so i don't have them all
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Post by KaiLord on Apr 21, 2004 6:29:39 GMT
32 here. I can remember waiting to get home after school every do just so I could read one of the books again. It was a magical time, and I'm already steering my son down the path of the Kai. The other day I was getting some books ready for auction, and he asked me "What that?" I replied Lone Wolf. He repeated me as only a 3-year old can. "Wone Woof!" and then he barked. KL
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Post by Tim on Apr 21, 2004 7:18:13 GMT
24. I can't remember when I first started reading the Lone Wolf series, but I remember getting hooked and not being able to stop. Then I took a long hiatus, and for some perverse reason sold off my collection (they were just collecting dust, I hadn't read them in years).
After feeling really nostalgic one cold day about a year ago, I stumbled on Project Aon. It's great being able to read books I never thought I'd see again.
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Post by paidio on Apr 21, 2004 8:38:26 GMT
Cool, nice to see a nice age range. Quite surprised to see people in their 30s, it's really hard to believe sometimes that I was reading these books that long ago, it just feels abit wierd on occasion. I remember swapping these books around in infant school lol! I think part of the magic, is the books took longer to read, and you tended to read them to death. With the option of a spectrum, atari 2600 or Lonewolf. Lonewolf came up trumps everytime which is great if you value the importance of reading at such a young age.
I take it going from the time you're posting there are a fare few UK people here, are there many people from the states? Anywhere else?
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Post by outspaced on Apr 21, 2004 9:34:25 GMT
Interesting to see people in their 30s are still Lone Wolf fans. Keep following the Project! Aon needs you! ;D Myself, I'm 25, freelance self-employed (read: I really should get a proper job), and living in England. I got into gamebooks with the fondly-remembered Fighting Fantasy series back in about 86-87 because they were popular with a few classmates. I saw Chasm of Doom in a second-hand bookshop and liked the look of it because it was a gamebook, but (and I shake my head now) felt a strange and warped sense of loyalty (ack!) to the FF series, so I didn't buy it. I saw it several times over the following couple of months, and eventually I broke down and bought it. This would be in 1988, just after the Masters of Darkness had been published. Needless to say, I really enjoyed the book. A couple of months later, I found a local bookshop and stocked Lone Wolf 1-7, 9, 11-12 and Freeway Warrior 1, 3-4. (I don't know if anyone remembers, but in the UK LW 8 and 10 and FW 2 were very tricky to get hold of as the publishers seemed unwilling to reprint.) Over the next couple of years I found the missing books, and then Plague-lords of Ruel was released . . . I bought #s 13-24 when they were released, but by that time, both the decent bookshops in my town had closed and I had no way of knowing whether there were any more Lone Wolf books. Between '96-'98 when #s 25-27 were released, I had sort of lost interest in gamebooks (never sold my collection though!), but the internet got me interested again when I searched Amazon for any Lone Wolf books I didn't have. I bought the ones I was missing and pre-ordered #28. During 1999 I wrote a couple of articles for the (now-defunct) Rising Sun Lone Wolf Online Magazine. Then, in Jan 2000, I was contacted to be involved with Project Aon. I've been annoying everyone there ever since!
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Post by Banedon on Apr 21, 2004 11:09:03 GMT
I take it I'm the only "underage" person here? I'm 16.
I first heard of Lone Wolf when I was about 9 years old, and that was in 1996...
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Post by GaryE on Apr 21, 2004 11:23:37 GMT
I brought “Flight from the Dark†in 1984 when I was 10, so I am another 30 year old UK fan of the books.
I have about 25-30 of the “Fighting Fantasy†books, but they didn’t interest me as much as the “Lone Wolf†books. The quality of writing, the playing style and the fact that you can keep the same character all the way through kept me hooked.
I still have all the books and play through, at least one of, them every 3-4 months. The first 3 books have been read so many times, the second map page in these books are either loose or has separated completely.
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Post by paididi0 on Apr 21, 2004 11:34:26 GMT
Just out of interest, do many of you guys read normal fantasy and sci-fi books? If so, how would you rate the lone wolf series overthem? I'm not a big fantasy/sci-fi reader you see and wondered whether the world that Joe Dever created pales into insignificance compared to the offerings of traditional fantasy?
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Nerethel
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Post by Nerethel on Apr 21, 2004 12:44:42 GMT
Dever's writing is uniquely his own, and doesn't compare well to other fantasy, in my opinion, because of the nature of a first person, non-linear style needed for a gamebook.
That being said, however, I do think fondly back on the stories told by Dever and remember them better BECAUSE they are non-linear and first person. The world was a more vivid, living place than the ones other characters interacted with in other fantasy novels. I felt more immersed, maybe a sense of belonging to a world, and thus must have absorbed the material more readily.
As for other books I'd recommend, I'd be negligent if I didn't mention 'The Rose of the Prophet' (my personal favorite aside from Lone Wolf) and 'The Death Gate Cycle', both by Wies and Hickman. Both series take a nifty idea and put a twist in it. Wies and Hickman are pretty good at this.
Elizabeth Moon's 'Deed of Paksenarrion' trilogy is excellent. A young woman's journey into paladinhood told from when she was little more than a peasant. I don't know if I can find the right words to describe the feelings this series invoked in me.
The best representation of elves in fantasy (in my humble opinion) are in the 'Shadow' series by Anne Logston. They're a quick read, but are light and fun. I always find myself smiling when I read them.
I'm sure I could think of more, but this isn't the place to do so, really. Beside that, these are the best I could think of. They're the books I find worthy to keep next to my Lone Wolf collection.
Nerethel
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Post by Mellitus on Apr 21, 2004 14:45:33 GMT
21 and still counting...
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deiseach
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Post by deiseach on Apr 21, 2004 16:33:26 GMT
27. Drifted away from LW after Wolf's Bane which I found to be a bit of a grind (never read The Curse of Naar or New Order books as a result). Came back thanks to Project Aon...can't remember when; it's been a few years
Happy birthday OmegaFlareX
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