May. 3rd, 2007

roseembolism: (Getoutta)
That's something I started wondering, after I picked up my second highly regarded fantasy novel, and ended up dropping it on the floor after a few chapters.  Certainly, I've almost completely lost patience with the standard elements of fantasy novels: after reading The family Trade- a novel where a modern woman has some choice things to say about medieval society- I couldn't even make a start of Guy Gavriel Kay.  It made me think that fantasy just isn't the genre forme.

Then again, recently I've loved reading Sorcery and Cecilia (bound to become a new comfort book), and I know I'd have no qualms going back to read anything by Diana Wynne Jones, so maybe it's not the genre itself, butsome common tropes.  

There's something here I'm going to have to explore, to get to why I'm so picky about fantasy these days- andmaybe it will point me to some more books I can enjoy.

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