How did you find the OC?

[Elspeth]

These stories are so much fun to read. Keep them coming. I think it's great that a single book has the power to move people and to create friendships. It's fantastic.

[Rilla]

miska said:

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

Yep , it was Innle!
(i was just happy that someone there was younger than me - ah, ickle Innlekins...)

[Emerald]

Well I owe it all to one of my friends.. It must of been just after The keeping Place came out... I can't exactly remember how she got me onto them, i think we were doing the trading books thing. I gave her Traci harding's ancient future trilogy and she gave me Obernewtyn and Farseekers. I read them in a few days and soon bought Ashling (thinking that it was the only other book in the series). I stayed in bed all day until i finished it in the arvo. I then saw in the back of Ashling "Also available, The Keeping Place". I freaked and as I had no way to get to the shops to get it, I rang the book store at the local shopping center to make sure they had it, then got my brother to call in there on the way home from uni and buy it for me...

I found this site soon after that and joined it then but I wasn't really into the posting messages thing at that time and was soon distracted by school. I visited from time to time but only became fully active again at the beginning of 2003 when I moved back to Melbourne. I had nothing to do in the holidays leading up to starting uni so i decided to make a library site listing all my fav books, and I came here to get the images for the covers and got into posting again...

So thats my story!

[ems]

Well, i'm not a member here, but i have been peeking in on all your ideas for a wee while now, and i've been reading these darn books forever!

Let's see, i believe my mum bought ober, farseekers and scatterlings all at once for my brother from the point scifi range that someone mentioned earlier. He read them once, and then i stole them. Best thing i ever did!!!!!However, rereading them over the next 5 or 6 years, i came increasingly close to despair, believing that something horrible had happened and the books would never be finished. I drove anybody i could crazy, wailing about how much i needed closure!

Then in 2000 I discovered the internet. Joy of joys- one of the first sites i came across was this one, and from here i ordered all the way from australia (i'm from northern ireland) the next 2. Such wonderful joy in my life... until i realised there was a fifth to wait for!

[Miska]

ooo ems that would be tourchure!!!! but at least ur waiting wiht all of us for the fith book! dam ic - hurry up will u!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rilla]

Do you know that IC hasn't finished a series to date?

[Miska]

its so bloody frustratng!!!!! i say bring darkbane out first! but anythin will do -and soonish!!!!

[Elspeth]

Rilla said:

Do you know that IC hasn't finished a series to date?

Hehe - I know! I live in fear that when The Sending's released, she'll tell us she has decided to extend the OC to seven books...

[Miska]

oh buneater please dont say that! ill go on a killing rampage

[Alaya]

i have one stupid question to ask
are we still on the topic of how we found the OC???

im sorry i probably seem pretty stupid for asking that but ya anyways...

[Miska]

we move b/w topics quickly... u yes thats wat the tread is about ...so please tell us ur story!

[Alaya]

ok just havnt got used to this msg board yet so anyways ya....um im a book fanatic so i was in the library and found the first oc book and i got hooked on them. Ya i live in the United States so its like really hard to find IC books but im so happy cause i finally got the 4th book
ya anyways thats my story so very interesting it is ;D

[brydie]

ooh!! A Newbie!! and from usa as well!! elspethseeker, you're not alone anymore!!
hi there!!! i'm brydie, your resident screenplay writer and guildmerge junkie. if i commit suicide, don't be scared, i pretty much do that on a regular basis. hope you have fun here!! how did you find us??
(ps. this post was completely pointless)

[Glynnavyre]

I saw Obernewtyn in a bookshop (I was judging the book on its cover) when I was like 13 and mum (being a librarian and wanting me to read more) bought it for me....

But I didn't read it...

It sat in my bookcase for like 2 or more years till I somehow picked it up and found that I couldn't put it down...
Then I got Farseekers and Ashling (My favourite) and loved them to!!!

I really started to get into her other books then as well and mum got me Darkfall for christmas a few years ago and I LOVE that one so much...

The funny thing is that I bought Billy Thunder some time ago but it didn't really grab me at all and has been sitting in my bookself unread for ages... Maybe if I picked it up and started to read it I would like it to...

[Elspeth]

Welcome, Alaya! I hope you're having fun here.

Glynnavyre, Billy Thunder didn't really grab me either. It didn't seem to have the depth and richness of the Ober Chronicles.

[talisha]

Yes welcome Alaya!

I liked Billy Thunder... its not comparable to the oberchron, but i didnt think it was bad

[Alaya]

Hi everybody, its the newbie ;D thanx for the welcome here everyone seems so friendly, i really like here so far its great ;D

okay so that was kinda pointless but all my messages kinda r so ya....

[Cat-Eyes]

I ddn't like BT. It's sitting in my bookshelf still, I've only read it once.

[HeartoftheDarkness]

i first read the O-chrons quite a few years ago,
my mum gave the first book to me for my birthday. i shunned it for weeks, but one day i was so bored i picked it up and read it. i didn't like it.
i didn't tell my mum this of course.
the next year for my birthday, my mum gave me the first three books. i shunned them for weeks as well. then one day i was really bored. i'd forgotten the plot, so i read them from the beggining again. it took me a few days to read the three, i was so obsessed. i think i finished the third one when i was at my mums work place, during the holidays ( being at the age when i wasn't allowed home on my own). the moment i finished, i made my mum take a break, and dragged her to the nearest bookshop.
then i read all the other I.C books that i could find.
i think the only other ones i havn't read are Angel Fever and something called This way out, or No way out, co-written with Steve Taylor (im still on the hunt!!)

i only wish i had been as obssessed with computers as i am with O-Chron, then i might have found this place sooner

yay!! happy ending

[Rilla]

Hello Alaya! Welcome!

I think Billy Thunder is more for younger readers. It doesn't have the big-mega plot that the OberChrons and The Legendsong have...

[HeartoftheDarkness]

yeah, its no-where near as intense

[Marija]

Ahhh.... cool music plays as Maria drifts of down memory lane... T'was a summer holiday from school and me being the book worm I was was looking for books I hadn't read yet in the library. I saw Obernewtyn, looked at the cover (the first ed cover!!), and put it away and grabbed some Brian Caswell instead. The next week on a search for more books, and looking again near the C's for some more stuff by Caswell I didn't find any so Obernewtyn caught my eye once more so I thought I might as well give it a try.
And I did... and I liked it very muchly... and then discovered farseekers and read that and fell in love. After that I was obsessed!! Lol. I read everything I could find by Isobelle while waiting for Ashling (which wasn't too long) and then read some more while waiting for the Keeping Place (which was much longer). Lol!

[Rilla]

lol, the first edition cover doesn't look very good does it?

[Lauren Hedgehog]

I know, that cover is awful and put me off reading it for ages even though my friend recomended it. Finally after much arguing with my friend I finally read it and loved it, so I went and read the rest of the series. which all goes to show that it's true that you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover

[Miska]

wat did this cover look like? im intreged?