What was the first book you owned?

[jardek]

First Kai book, anyway. I found FftD in my primary school library when I was about 14.

I later risked life and limb by 'borrowing' books two and four from the same library. They're still sitting in my bookshelf.

Believe it or not, for the next decade or so I didn't see or hear of any of the books until part way through last year when I stumbled on this site quite by accident. Since then I've probably played through the available gamebooks about twenty or thirty times.

[outspaced]

Interesting question.

#4: The Chasm of Doom. I bought it second-hand after seeing it for sale several times and always resisting the urge because I was a Fighting Fantasy fan, and I wasn't going to settle for cheap imitations. The guy who owned it before me wrote on the Action Chart in red ink.

It's a 1985 Beaver Books edition (though the title page says Sparrow Books) with the red, moody sky in the background and a feline creature (which may or may not be an Elix) in the foreground, walking on a cracked pathway, presumably the Ruanon Pike. I stil own it, and I've read it more times than is healthy. Even to this day, TCoD is one of my favourite Lone Wolf adventures.

[nigthhunter]

For me, I got book 7, 8 and 9 from my older brother. They are the very first Lonewolf books that I have read and they still get me more nostalgic than the other books on my younger age.

[Dusk Fox]

I started out with Book 5. I had no idea it was a series, and Book 5 was the biggest of them, so it's the one I picked for my mother to buy me. After I had read it, I immediately begged my parents for the rest of them.

[Black Cat]

Book 15 & 20 where the two first books I got from my father as a Christmas present. But for the first one that I bought myself with my own money, I think it was book 1.

[Doomy]

In a way, I have two "firsts". Chronologically speaking it was Fire on the Water, which I bought at a jumble sale while attending primary school. Approximately nine million years later, when I rediscovered Lone Wolf via Project Aon, I purchased The Legacy of Vashna because it was not yet available online. FOTW probably cost me 10p, while TLOV cost about £15. That's progress for you!

[Zipp]

I think I've done this before, but I like repeating myself. I like talking. Typing, in this instance.

My first book was actually the legends book, Eclipse of the Kai. My aunt, I believe, bought it for me. They liked to buy me in groups the first books of a bunch of different series, and then the idea was that I would go out and buy the next books of the ones I liked. I think they got me the first book of the Norby Chronicles at the same time. I liked both books, but I never did get any more of the series...

Except, I suppose, that when I saw Lone Wolf for sale at my local book store, I figured it was the same thing and picked it up. It was book 14 of the series. Needless to say, I was shocked and pleasantly surprised to find a Choose Your Own Adventure with what seemed like magic and combat! To this day, I don't recall running into the multiple problems that Kaag is supposed to have (American Edition).

After that, my next book was Legacy of Vashna, which remains my favorite to this day.

I still haven't played books 10-12, and have not played any of the "full editions" of the GM series. I'm making my way through the series very slowly this time, which has worked out nicely with the slow pace of Project Aon, which is not a diss, not as long as they release at least a couple books a year. Even one book a year... but the day Project Aon fails to release a book in an entire year is the day I get off and start helping them out ^_^

Anyways, I'm confident that Ixia will be out soon. And then comes the fabled Dawn of the Dragons! A good one, that, even in abbreviated form!

[Al]

FotW was my first one, and I fell in love with it immediatly, after that I got number three, five and then some of the MagnaKai, but just as I was getting into them, they where no longer being sold in the bookstores
Al

[Runeheart]

Book 1 was the first I borrowed from school, but Book 4 was the first I purchased ( I had read 1,3,4,5 and 6 before I had money to buy any). Read elsewhere for my woffle over this wonderful book. And here is irony, it's the only book that I loaned out and have now lost, so out of the whole series (less book 28) it's the only one missing...

[gothmog]

I found them lying around in the house left over from when my brother was into them - I think the first one i found was either War of the Wizards or the MC.

[sebjarel]

My first was an omnibus edition of 1 and 2 in 87 (my dog then ate it, which upset me considerably). My next was Bk 10 a few mths later. I will always have a soft spot for bk 10.

I've got 1 to 22 at the moment. 22 is in mint condition, as after I bought it in 94 I fell out of love with RPGs and such like. I rediscovered it in a box about a year ago. Looking at Ebay, I might be able to retire and live off the proceeds should I choose to sell it.

[Ofecks]

I was just getting into the whole fantasy culture when I was in 5th grade (1991/2) with my addiction to Dragon Warrior and Zelda on the NES, and I saw a friend the following year in school reading one. I asked about it and he let me borrow the first two, which I immediately fell in love with. My mom was so shocked I was actually reading instead of being glued to my NES/Gameboy, that she ordered all 12 of the Kai/Magnakai series for me. =)

It was hard selling those books since they had much sentimental value to me. Hopefully North Star will enjoy having them.

[HuntingWolf]

I was maybe 13, and I remember my best friend at the time had a Lone Wolf book he was looking at one day when I went over to his house. I asked him what it was, and he said it was this great RPG book. So, next day, I went to my bookstore, and looked around, and sure enough, there they were, sitting on the bottom shelf, all brand new, just BEGGING me to buy them. I bought Flight From The Dark, and read it like a madman, til I wore it out LoL. Asked my mother to go back and buy several more, and she did. I am missing book 4, and 13 through 20. Sad, I know, but then I found ProjectAON, and I was like, "Holy Christ!! THE BOOKS ARE ONLINE?!" I love PA. Best site EVER, IMO.

[MikeH]

My first book was Castle Death, predominantly to see what the fuss was about with this usurper to the FF gamebook throne, though Pete Lyon's cover also attracted me because it was different from the standard "let's show a big drooling monster reaching for you" fantasy cover (of course, for all I know the reprints now *have* got that sort of cover). In tracking down all the previous books I do remember having a devil of a job trying to find Shadow on the Sand, and only managed it on the reprints with Brian Salmon's covers.