Star Wars - I wrote an essay on it!
Toy Story - I'm a child of the Nineties so I grew up with it. Toy Story 3 made me cry.
Doctor Who - You may have gathered that already from my name and avatar...
Harry Potter is a weird one for me. I go through peroids of loving it but most of the time I'm fairly apathetic towards it.
I wrote the Thomas Ligotti article.
This should explain a lot.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.The fandoms that I have loved sufficiently that I joined at least one message board are, in approx order of obsession:
Lord Of The Rings, online obsession starting around 2003 when we actually got the internet at home. I remember waiting for ages on dial-up for the Fanatics Forum to load. The love for the rest of Tolkien's stuff only really arrived in 2008-ish, when I first read Farmer Giles Of Ham. Very active in the offline fandom, not so active online.
Star Wars: I first saw the OT in 2004 with the DVD releases (I know, shocking!) but my love for this was kind of cut short by my GCS Es taking up all my time. I have been on and off with this, reading bits of the EU and stuff on fanfiction.net, but never a fully devoted member as with the two main obsessions.
Les Miserables: Read the book first in 2008, but suddenly became obsessed over Easter 2009 as I tried to find every film version ever. I am still pretty active in this fandom but it has been dying off for the last 6 months or so.
I had a brief fling with Notre Dame De Paris, and Dom Claude Frollo in particular, in 2010, but that's probably the last burning obsession I had.
In roughly the order that they took over my life (and including other media than books):
- The Lord Of The Rings. I don't know how many times I read it.
- Star Wars (original trilogy only)
- Discworld
- The Simpsons (back when it was good)
- Futurama (again, has waned in recent years, since I thought the movies and Season 6 were awful. Though it seems to be shaping up again.)
- right now, The Venture Brothers
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The Lord Of The Rings. From age 6 or so.
Anne Mc Caffrey's Dragonriders Of Pern series. [Stop looking at me like that, I was a kid at the time!]
Julian May's Saga Of The Exiles for a brief but very obsessed time.
Gene Wolfe's Book Of The New Sun
P.C. Hodgell's Chronicles Of The Kencyrath (still my biggest obsession)
CJ Cherryh's works
A brighter future for a darker age.JRR Tolkien: This guy can do no wrong. Peter Jackson, on the other hand, must die.
Emilie Autumn: Yeah, I know, not really literature (though she did write a book, which I haven't had the opportunity to read yet but definitely plan to), but she's my favorite musician and therefore definitely applies to the thread's topic.
Star Wars: Especially the Expanded Universe. And out of that, especially the X Wing Series and Death Troopers.
Spartacus Blood And Sand: TV rather than literature, but if you listen to the dialogue it's very... bookish. At least, when it's not a Cluster F-Bomb.
Jesus saves. Gretzky steals, he scores!A Series Of Unfortunate Events was my absolute favorite book series growing up, to the point where it shaped most of the way I write and think to this day.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!The Lord Of The Rings when I was 14.
James Joyce a few years later.
Then, Thomas Pynchon and Gravitys Rainbow to the present.
I like a zillion other things, but those are the most major ones.
no one will notice that I changed thisOh! My Grand C. S. Lewis collection! Contains The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce, and a couple of others.
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.

Putting it here because mine are mostly literature. Anyway, what stories affected you so deeply that you pretty much talked about them incessantly for years on end?
My first one was Animorphs. God, that screwed with my brain, though - it was pretty clear even when I was eight that Jake and company couldn't exist as such, but how was I to know for sure that Yeerks weren't real? I think I decided it jumped the shark when the Helmacrons came in; all I know for certain is that I thought numbers 20 through 23 were the most riveting stuff ever, but I didn't read #25 until years later.
My second one was Harry Potter. I started in 1999 and while I'm not half the rabid fan I once was, you'd better believe I'm going to join Pottermore ASAP. Hell, I still have a stint as a Hogwarts professor four times a year.
The three years between Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix, on the other hand - pretty unfathomably long at the age I was - prompted me to cheat on the series with Lord of the Rings. (I was also a Drizzt fanboy and so forth, but I think I will take that as a subset of the Tolkien thing.)
When the series died down, I tried to hook up with A Song of Ice and Fire on the rebound, but I don't need that kind of abuse in a committed relationship. However, by 2007 I'd discovered This Very Wiki, and some tantalizing examples led me to discover Death Note. That, and all sorts of related stuff falling under Xanatos Planned This Index, is still my main squeeze to this day.
Hail Martin Septim!