A few years ago, I spent most of my savings on The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Winter, and Stars Above; I didn’t get Fairest), read them all, and loved them…though I didn’t reread them and sold them some time later.

And what was the first series you spent most of your savings on?

  • Character_Pomelo_761@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Harry Potter. It changed my life. School always made me feel very insecure about my intelligence and I hated reading because teachers and the system made me feel like I wasn’t enough so I didn’t try. J.K.Rowling made me love readiing. Later I moved on to Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Spiderwick Chronicles. And after that I even started to enjoy ancient Greek Philosophy which helped go into an art university. Now I have a really big library and I still read a lot. It will always have a special place in my heart as a series.

  • YalAintRdy4ThatConvo@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The Twilight Saga. I was gifted the first book for my birthday and then immediately spent all my birthday money on the rest of the series.

  • revdon@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Edward Eager’s Tales of Magic (7 books)

    I’ve loved them ever since I got Half Magic from the public library one summer

  • Darth_Lugia@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I was gifted the whole Percy Jackson Series for my birthday one year. It helped me get back into reading. Shortly after that, I was hooked on the New covers for the Lunar Chronicles and ended up buying the whole box set. Loved it. Though I never got through Stars Above before selling it.

  • ladyvibrant@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The first series I ever bought in its entirety: Alanna: Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce.

    My mom was deep in the Satanic panic surrounding Harry Potter and forbade me from reading it. I didn’t have any close friends who would’ve kept my secret if I had elected to read it. She knew my love of reading so she beseeched me not to read anything that would violate her standards. Borders was our bookshop so we visited one evening. I ventured into the YA section and I noticed Tamora Pierce. I hadn’t been aware of her until then.

    This was the 6th grade. Those books held me in their grip until 8th grade. The magic didn’t spook me. Alanna fought for the side of good.

    I still haven’t told my mother what Alanna was about.

  • porkyoupayn@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch and the I Am Number Four Series + sidestories (stopped buying after the main books)

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  • TheInsaneSnake@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

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    The Vampire Kisses books by Ellen Schreiber . I discovered the series when browsing in BAM and saw the 2nd book , which was new to me . I liked the cover and after reading a little of it , thought it interesting enough to buy . After that , each year and every few months I’d purchase another from the same bookstore until I had all of them , including the manga art -style books . ( I got the second book first and the first and third books second because that was how BAM had them in stock and out on the shelves when I went there , which is kind of funny )

  • vixissitude@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Not as a bundle but I bought and read A Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter as they came out. It was so exciting to wait for the next book to be written and then translated and published.

  • anfotero@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Hard to remember. It may be the whole of Sherlock Holmes when I was a kid of 8 or 9. Foundation also at 9, Dune may have been a little while later.