How did you find the OC?

[Dameon]

Something Buneater said in the library made me wonder how people got into the OC in the first place. Tell us your story about the first time you read it!!!

My friend recommended it. It was the year Ashling came out, I think. What year is that? I was in High School anyhoo!
I kinda ignored her, but one day I had nothing to read and I found it in my school library. So I borrowed it out, and read it all in that one night (Actually, I stayed up til like 2:00, but you know what I mean). Then the next day I borrowed out Farseekers. My library didn't have Ashling, so I bought it!

I came to Obernet, btw, 3 years ago. Jess found it while doing an a.s.signment and told me about it. She didn't join up, but I did. A year or so later, I made her join to!!!

Tell us YOUR story!!!

KSL (Oh the corniness!)

[Miska]

many moons ago mum stummbled on it in a book shop and got it for my sis (whos an absolute book fanatic)...they had been pestering me to read (anything at all) for yrs. then one day (1st semester 2nd yr uni) i was really sick and had nothin better to do. so i asked for a few books and mum threw obernet at me. i read it cover to cover and decided i loved books (record time for me:P) i didnt get to farseekers, ashlings or TKP til during exams (oct/nov) last yr. which i joined obernet quick smart when i searched for info on the 5th book. so not only did it indroduce me to the wonderful world of book...its given me a net life too, where ive met so many grand ppl ... woot woot for ic!

ok now i feel like ive said my life story! *sniffle*

[Elspeth]

Kayt, you always start good threads.

OK, I found Obernewtyn in my school library years and years ago. The name kept appealing to me and I'd take the book up and read the blurb, only to be put off. I'd read a little bit of science fiction and it seemed like it was just going to re-hash old ideas that had already been beaten to death. (Also, the cover was HIDEOUS. I think it was the first one, with the strange figure on it with a lot of red in the background.) But one day, I ran out of books I hadn't read and I needed something for the holidays, so I thought: "What the hell" and borrowed Obernewtyn. Of course, I never looked back. I loved it and berated myself for being resistant to it for so long.

At that stage, only Obernewytn and The Farseekers had been released and I read them both. Around that time, the word from Isobelle was that the final book was to be called The Keeping Place and would complete a trilogy. So I waited and waited... and then Ashling out, along with news that the OC had been extended to five books. Oh, the pain and the turmoil! I worked out once that I've been waiting for the final book the OC for over ten years. That's just not fair.

I found Ober.net in June of 2000, when I was searching the internet for info on Isobelle. It looked like one of the best Obernewtyn sites around, so I joined up. It was the first and only time I've ever joined a fan club and I haven't looked back. All the Ober.netters are fantastic people.

Well, that's my Obernewtyn story. I'm looking forward to reading everyone else's stories of discovery.

[Lix]

i got mine for christmas from my mum. i couldnt put them down

[shadowoutcast]

I was at my uncle's farm in Hexham Victoria (Not for from Woornabul(sp?) and Mortlake). And being Victoria and winter it was raining out side. So I was looking thourgh there book colection and found Obernewtyn, and got stuck on it from the start. After finishing Ober I found Farseeker in the same book shelf. I borrowed Farseeker to finish it and when I did that I searched the library(sp?) for others.

It wasn't long and I found Ashling which tock me a while to read. When I finally finished Ashling TKP came in on hold and I feel over at the size of that book. Now with all four done I looked for somewhere to talk to ppl who had read it. Finding this place I found after I joined that there was more then 10+ felmales to every 1- male (I don't like to feel out numbered).

Now along with everyone who has read it I'm waiting for the 5th and hopefully final book in the series.

Oh and all you ppl are great even if you out number me (I've been told I'm a real ladies man. LOL me ha.).

EDIT: Is it just me or dose other ppl become confused when you see 'OC' in the subject line.

[avra]

I think both my brother and Mum had read Obernewtyn, and then they suggested it to me. I think at that stage Ashling was around, so I devoured all three, and then put a friend at school on to them too. We spent a few years then pining over Rushton, whilst waiting for TKP.

Cant for the life of me remember how I ended up here... I think it was a random search for info? Evertyhing was black and green and blue in those days

I know what you mean about the OC, well I think I do, if you mean The OC that I think you mean. I once saw on my brothers computer a directory called The OC, and this small part of me hoped it was Ober-related. Unfortunately (but also fortunately!) it turned out to be episodes of The OC. Top show that..

[Seagull Fred]

Hee hee, I actually can't remember that well...I can remember seeing 'Obernewtyn' continuously on the school library bookshelf for aaaaages, but it never really appealed to me. I can also remember my mum borrowing Ashling from the library for me, coz I wanted something to read, and my sister had read Scatterlings...? I think...? and liked it.

I do know that Weese got me to pick up Obernewtyn and read it, but I wasn't impressed until I read Ashling and TKP. Sorry, but I really don't think 'Obernewtyn' is the best writing IC has done...

And Weese brought me to ober.net on my birthday two and half years back now...? Wow, don't tell me it's three and a half...no, won't believe that... Two and half is long enough Anyway, she wanted some recruitment points for Ashlings, so I obliged.

I must take this opportunity to say that it's really interesting to see the different dynamics between all the members now. Especially with the new proboards system in place. At one point I'd only be reading the Ashlings board and rarely visiting the Member's Main board. Now it's completely reversed

And now the Ashlings seem to be the sleepy ones, whereas when I joined, that was basically the board where everything happened!

I wonder wot it'll be like in three years from now...?

So that's me story, and very proud of it I am too.

Cheerio,

Lauren

[brydie]

lol...i thought when u said 'how did you find the oc' that u meant how did we like it...

at my primary school in the library there was this pit thing which we'd sit in and the teacher librarian would sit up the top and reado to us...and i remember seeing this HUGE fat book sitting up on on of the shelves...big books have always appealed to me. it turned out to be the keeping place and i was really disappointed thatit was the fourth one and the first two were really thin! but yeah, i read them, and i found ober.net through min's theory site. i cant remember when i joined...but miska if u say u joined last yr about october/november then i must have joined before you!?! i dont remember that...
well i must hacve joined a few months before miky and talisha turned up. i remember that because they kept arguing about rushton and dameon. but it feels like logner than that...

[Squarmi]

A friend told me to read them and I did and I liked them basically (she also got me into Robin Hobb's books). Then Lauren and I must of talked about OC once at band or something cause just after her bday 2 and a half years ago (yes 2 and a half, not 3 Lauren) she emailed me and told me about Ober.net so I joined.

Squarmi

[~Ethereal~]

Well, I was alwasy a complete bookworm and I was havign an awful lot of trouble finding anything in the school library that I hadnt read more than twice that wasn't more teen horror. Our librarian decided to buy mroe Aussie authors and he got Obernewtyn. He recomended it to me, but someone else in my year got in first. She finished with it and told me to try it out with the comment "It's sorta weird, I'm sure you'll love it......"
Well, i did. Then I quickly devoured farseekers, and ashling came out soon after.
I fount ober.net a few years back, but didnt' join at the time. Then when I was bored again at the start of this year I remembered about it. Looked it up again and joined.

[talisha]

My mum bought the books for me in umm.. twould have been about april-ish 2000. She found them in a book store and i spose they were reccommended to her.
I couldnt put them down either.

I remember the first time I finished the series, and I didnt know there was to be a 5th book and I had this stressed conversation to my mum (who didnt know what I was talking about) discussing how the whole aim of the books was to find the sings and dismantle the machinces, and she didnt even go on the quest!!!
I was stressed as! And I was literally devastated at the end of the 4th when elf and rushtons relationship didnt seem to be too great... the more times I read it the better that bit seemed, they're all happy again!

woo!

haha sorry I got carried away from the topic...

[Lucy]

Right, this might not make sense if you Aus people didn't have this series of books, but there was this "series" called Point Horror, which wasn't a proper series as such but a lot of different "horror/scary" books for young adults which were a *big* fad over here - kinda like Goosebumps but better-heard of Goosebumps? Well, anyway, then they brought out another few series called PointRomance, Point Sci-Fi, Point Fantasy etc and Scatterlings was published as part of the Point Sci-Fi and in the bit where it says about the author it had Obernewtn and Farseekers in (both in the Point Sci-Fi series) and that got me hooked...there was another really good bookc alled Year of the Phial in there too. Loved that.

Anyway, yeah, that was probably a much longer explanation than was needed. Then I found Ober.Net and discovered there were other books and then couldn't get them here and argh - nightmare! Thank god for the internet and credit cards, or I wouldn't be where I am today!

So, yeah....hi

[Natally]

I entered a writing comp. & won some prizes & 1 of the prizes was a box of books! ;D
I looked through them & saw obernewtyn! At first I wasn't interested coz obviously I judged the book by its cover, but then I read it & thought it was a good book.
Then I forgot about it.
One day about a year later I was rumaging for a good book to read, & found obernewtyn again. I'd totally forgotten about it. I read it & totally got hooked!

[Gahtha]

I went into a bookshop to get a book and my mum handed me three books in a chronicle and said
'this should keep you going for a while'

[Miska]

a little off the topic..but i thought this thread was bout 'the OC' too ...anyway ...its sooo intersting to read this...keep it coming ppl!!!

[Cat-Eyes]

I feel so new....

I got Billy Thunder and the Night Gate about 2 years ago, wait hang on, I'm 15 in 2 weeks and I would have gotten it for my bday in grade 6 or year 7 cause I got it from Tara...

Ahem.

Either 2 or 3 years ago I got BT. It sucked. Sorry, but I really didn't like it. And I'd heard of Obernewtyn, but didn't want to read it cause BT sucked and I thought it would too.

Then, this year, me and my friend Lara started recommending books to each other, and she made me read Obernewtyn. And so then I read the other 3 too (aha, the only book in this series I've ever had to wait for is the next one) and she told me to go to ober.com cause she hangs around there, but has never joined. She just reads people's theories and stuff. But when I went I straight away joined cause it seemed cool.

So now she's got me reading the Farseer trilogy and I'm still trying to get her to join here.

And that's my story...

I'm so new

;D

Cat

[Natally]

I wrote about how I found the OC. woops. How I found obernet was when I'd finished reading the OC. I was repulsed by the last book, because I thought it was the last one & it didn't sum things up.
Then one of my ober-obsessed friends told me that there was a 5th! I was so happy, so I lookd up the net on any info on when it would come out.
then I found ober.net
then i signed up.
now i'm here

[Min]

It all began about 8 years ago...where has the time gone?

I was doing a book viva for English in Year 11 - the catch was that everything reviewed had to be by Australian authors. I needed one more book for my fiction section, so I started at the 'A' section of the library and scanned just for books with the little kangaroo sticker on them (denoting that an Aussie had written them). Everything I picked up in A and B looked boring and when I hit 'C', I came across Farseekers. I thought it sounded interesting, got it out, and read it in one night, totally gobsmacked at how awesome it was, and totally dumbfounded in myself for getting the 2nd book in a series. I went back the next day and got out Obernewtyn and Ashling, read Ober in a night and Ashling in two, then began the wait for TKP. Which came out in the middle of one of my exam weeks at uni - and read it in 24 hours straight.

A couple of people are adding how they came here so... I'd just learned to use a computer properly when I started uni (1999...look, I was from a country town but look where I am now ;D) and I found an Obernewtyn mailing list called Guildmerge in about Feb 99. Just under a year later, one of the girls advertised Shannon's site (the old xoom.com address!! WHOA!), and I signed up, became a Ward of one of the new guilds (still unnamed at the time, but ended up being the Mystics!) and haven't been able to get away from here yet! *bless* lol.

[Elspethseeker]

hahaha well i was in the groceroy store looking for a cheapo book to read on the plan on my way over to NZ and Aus. then i could just leave it there when done. My eye was cuaght by ashling. I picked it up and got it. i enjoyed it soo very much that i couldn't leave it behind and so i took it with me. when i got home i saw IC was australian. lol. i then went on amazon and bought the other two. Funny how stuff works out.

[brydie]

lmao miska!! when the ads first started showing for the OC i was so shocked because i thought they were talkin about the ober-chron! abnd there was one ad talking about seth being a misfit...and i was like 'WHO THE HELL IS SETH?!?!?!?!' pretty funny...

[Min]

SAME Brydie!!! I had a major freak-out, Ams was over at my place the first time I saw an and I we just stared at each other in horror and let out a few major colourful WHAT THE...?'s

[Miska]

lol...i was much the same before thinking oooo hes cute...so i odnt mind

[brydie]

;D ;D ;D
i dont watch the oc but i always know wats happening in it bcause my friends always talk about it...

[Rilla]

Ok!

One cold winters day around two years ago i was having major freak-outs coz i had no books to read. *SHOCK HORROR!*
So mum got sick of my complaining, went to a cupboard and got out obernewtyn.
I didn't really want to read it at first, coz the cover wasn't interesting (it was the first edition). But i did and i got hooked and bought the others very soon after!
And then i searched on google for the Sending and it came up with "Obernewtyn - Theories and Thoughts".
So i hung around there for ages till i finaly realised that there was a whole ober site attached to it. And i signed up. Yay!
And then i visited the wanderer boards and NO-ONE WAS THERE! So i went back to hanging around the theories baord.
Sometime in the middle of this i had gotten my best friend hooked on Obernewtyn and she joined up and started raving about the fun she was having on the wandies boards. So i went and had a look at them again and met cool crazy people.
The End.

All: *snore*

[Miska]

lol...that wouldnt happen to be innle would it! ;p:) and i wasnt snoring too loudly i dont htink