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Quoted from nemesis: 'Fantasy is escapist nothing more.'

nemesis: Please explain what you mean here. By escapist I infer that you are saying that all fantasy is 'fluff' without any real substance and therefore not fit for reading by educated minds. Is this a correct assumption?

In addition you are putting down many other genres by saying that for something to be 'escapist' then it is therefore 'bad'. Hmm. I am not sure that Hemingway, Melville, Eliot, Frost, cummings, Longfellow, Lewis, Browning, Sand, Shelley, and so on would agree with you.

Because something may not 'speak' to you, does not make it bad. Don't put down fantasy because you don't personally enjoy it. Many people enjoy fantasy, and, amazingly enough, wouldn't give a cow's flatulence whether you approve or not.

How much fantasy have you read? Just curious to see how you came to have this belief.

What genre do you enjoy?