| Re: What is your ideal concept of fantasy?
I like elves. Of course, what I really like about them is when the author gives more of the lore correctly, and has both the Bright and Dark Courts, thus representing the fact that bad can wear just as beautiful a face as good. Anyway. I guess my ideal fantasy stems from the fact I want interesting characters, and a well written book/series. A lot of the fantasy I've tried to read was either all action, or all character development, or just poorly written altogether. That's why I stopped reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. For me, the books weren't balanced enough to be absorbing. They got too complicated, too dark, and I didn't connect to enough of the characters well enough to continue reading the series. I guess my ideal fantasy just means it's well enough written that it can draw me in and make me forget my surroundings, but that can go for any art form too... now who's rambling?
~BandSmurf
PS Lucifer, what's Le Guin's Stranger in a Strange Land about? I've read Heinlein's, but I didn't know she wrote a book by the same name. |