OK, my turn to get up on stage and introduce myself.
(checks that hair is in place and that pants are zipped, and moves up to microphone)
My name is Darren. I'm a Sydneysider (New South Wales, Australia) who became a WS fan late last year.
On and off since my teens, though, I had tried getting into WS's fiction. I started several of his novels, and even completed
The Dark Of The Sun back in the early 2000s, but they never grabbed me at the time.
Late last year, though, I tried
The Power Of The Sword - and finally, I became hooked on WS. Thus, for the past twelve months or so, I have read (and re-read) most of his works - I like most of them a lot, and they fired an interest in southern Africa that led me to other writers (both fiction and non-fiction) about the region.
I found this forum via the
WS entry at
Wikipedia.