The first book in the series snagged me in Borders! I've been hooked since!

" Duct tape, the stuff that holds the universe together."A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane
- Serena

the reason I started reading it was because Iwas having this thing where I wanted to read every single magic or wizardry book in the world for some reason, and Isaw SYWTBAW, and bought it, and loved it and read the whole series.

well, my story's a bit pathetic. i was at borders and was looking through the young adults section (i was out of books 2 read). so when i say a title that looked interesting, i looked at the description. after about 20 minutes I came to "so you want to be a wizard?" i read the first chapter in the store and then bought it. and wham here i am

"It was my turn to save you, that's all. Now I want a few weeks off..."

it's not dying for a friend that's hard...no, what's hard is finding a friend worth dying for.

oh, let's see...I got snagged by SYWTBAW about 10 years ago in the city library, got hooked, read DW and HW (the only other ones available at the time), and then recently discovered that the series went on! So I read the others and am eagerly waiting the next one!

I'm a little late for this topic. But here goes -

Once upon a time, a long time ago (specially for you teens!) I was a pre-teen alone in the library. Wandering along the shelves, a well worn, extreamly well loved paperbook version of "so you want to be a wizard" jumped out at me ... I'm estimating my age between 11 and 12 at the time So ye god... that was 18 years ago!

And no, there wasn't a series back then. I didn't know about the series until a friend in a MUD (Multi-demintonal doungens, think D&D text based rollplay) Mentioned that SHE loved the series. So Off I went to the barns n nobles and brought the whole set! Then this month I rubbed in that I found the new book, and bam, she found this website! And here I am

And yes, if your curious - if I was 11 18 years ago... that makes me 29. These books are as enjoyable as an adult as they were as a child. And that is hard to do.

Dai stiho
hi Ryna, I see your new! Anyway there are quite a few people on this site I think are adults, *leans over and whispers* ‘I’m 21 next month!’, and your right the books are just as enjoyable now. In fact I think there MORE enjoyable now! You should try reading the ‘tale of the five’ series, someone on this site suggested it to me and there a good read as well!
-Daz-
From the United Kingdom
“Oh my God I’m going to die – oh its over!”

well, i saw my older brother reading it. i asked him if i could read it (i'm the bookworm of the house...) but he said to get my own copy. finally i found it at my school's library. everyone i talked to about it had read it. hmm...i wonder what got them into it. just for the record, i would've read it when i found it even if i hadn't seen my brother reading it. i'm into wizarding stuff. it's just how i am!

you don't learn it...
you earn it.

My story is real simple.

I went to Georgia and i love magic things. and this book kinda forced my hand to stop on its spine. Now i just finished Book 3

Hmmm. Well what should be my first sighting was about 3 years ago, now. SYWTBAW had been left in the orchestra room, and my friend asked if she could keep it if no one claimed it. She did end up doing so. Then, that summer my cousin mentioned reading High Wizardry. I naturally, started at the beginning and read through a wizard abroad i believe. They took me forever and I nearly gave up several times. Then, soon after, I read The Wizard's Dilemma and loved it. It is my favorite out of the first five. I thought the series might end there, and was very suprised to see last year, that another book had come out. And very happy!

When I was around thirteen, I was sitting around one summer day and complaining that there was nothing good to read, so my older sister, Sarah, who was 19, goes into her room and brings back a large pile of books, among which was "Support Your Local Wizard", a collection of the first three books. I read them and got hooked.

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I really needed a book for school... so I picked up one on one of the shelves at Borders and bought it. (That book ended up being SYWTBAW)

Have an issue get a tissue!!--Steph C.
Kisses taste like chicken-- Absoulutely Normal Chaos...sharon creech

My friend and I were reading one lunchtime at school about three, four years ago now. I think I was reading Lords and Ladies (one of the Discworlds) and she was reading High Wizardry. She left to go get something and I picked her copy of HW and started to read it. I was only about two pages into it when she came back and pointed out that it was the third one. She lent me SYWTBAW the next day and I read all of the up to Abroad. I got the first five for Christamas 2002 and found out about this site shortly afterwards - but I didn't join the Forum for nearly a year.

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There are worlds out there where the sky is burning. Where the sea’s asleep and rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there’s danger, somewhere there’s injustice and somewhere else the tea’s getting cold. Come on Ace, we’ve got work to do. – The Doctor, (Doctor Who - Survival, 1989)

I have a feeling i have posted this before, but here goes.
I first came across the YW series in about year 9 (age 13) at secondry school, in the school library. They had Deep and High, which I read and enjoyed. Sometime after that (memory is hazy), I tracked down SYWTBAW, and read that. I didn't realise that there were any others out there - after all, High didn't seem to leave anything unifinished in a major way. That was the end of me and YW for years.
I then came across Abroad in the sixth form (age 17), I think via my elder sister. From that I found out about Dilemma, but wasn't able to track down a copy.
Whilst searching randomly on the internet around a year ago (see my date of registration, left), I cam across this site, and learnt of the exsistence of Alone, and theupcomign existence of of Holiday. I have only just (!) bought and read Alone and Dilemma, and at some point I will get round to buying Holiday.
So, all in all, a rather piecemeal journey, abetted by ignorance of what YW books were out there.

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hadrin, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation

I think is was maybe 9 months to a year ago, and I was at a bookstore looking for a book to read. I scanned along the shelves and saw 'so you want to be a wizard' Since Im slightle (hehe) obsessive about all magic/fantasy books, I read the back immediatly and decided to buy it.

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"No...we named the monkey Jack"-pirates of the carribean
"Not all who wander are lost"-JRR Tolkein
and yes...I am slightly (hehe) crazy

Oddly enough, it snagged my hand as I was looking through the kids section in a book store in Monteray, CA. No joke.

I am completely obsessed with magic and everything like it.

I use the local library a lot and when I was browsing the books.... There it was "So you want to be a wizard". Picking it up got me hooked and now I just have to find WAW in the library.

Hmmm...in fourth grade, my mom was making us go visit her friend's new house (which was the coolest house I've ever been in! Inside pool...) and it was about an hour away. So I went to the library and was looking for a book to read on the way there. I found AWA, and read it, and thought it was great, and forgot about it. In sixth grade I found SYWTBAW, and remembered that I'd read the fourth book awhile ago. Since then, I've been hooked. Hmmmm...I love these books.

-seabiscuit, a.k.a. hungry

In...what was it, 5th grade or soemthing, one of my friends at the time was telling me about the books and I got really interested: so I started reading them at the library. I got completely hooked and I needed to read llike every second I could, lol...So, I have read six out of 9 of them, btu I am hoping to get number 7 and 8 for my birthdya which i in like 9 days! lol, I love those books!

When we moved back to the States the summer before 6th grade (so, '97), there was little to do but go through the local library like locusts. One of the books I read happened to be SYWTBAW. That first book actually didn't make a big impression, but months later, after switching libraries, I read DW and HW in one night and was amazed. I've been following the series since.

I think I was probably hooked by the concept of wizardry and Duane's depiction of the alternate Manhattan. But probably mostly by the teamwork between Nita and Kit. It didn't hurt that I got the audio version of Deep Wizardry from the library and was driven to tears. I wasn't impressed with High Wizardry at first, but it's grown a lot on me. Didn't like A Wizard Abroad, but A Wizard's Dilemma made up for a good bit of that. A Wizard Alone was good, though I wasn't that impressed with A Wizard's Holiday, and Wizards at War was just plain awesome.

Just my take!