tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post197891355003311122..comments2023-11-12T09:52:42.825-05:00Comments on Medieval Woman: Blogging with Historical Novelist Susan Higginbotham: So Why Don't I Like Fantasy? Beats Me . . .Susan Higginbothamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-83810042168019588872006-12-17T13:17:00.000-05:002006-12-17T13:17:00.000-05:00Thanks, folks! Tuesday is when I get to find out w...Thanks, folks! Tuesday is when I get to find out whether the kids save the dancing knights or not . . .Susan Higginbothamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-58538076053705791492006-12-16T12:50:00.000-05:002006-12-16T12:50:00.000-05:00I volunteer at my kids' school library, too. I was...I volunteer at my kids' school library, too. I wasn't able to do it this semester, but I hope to go back in January.<br /><br />I've been reading the Magic Treehouse series to my boys. My favorite is the one in which they go to the moon in the future. There are several good episodes, though.<br /><br />I do like fantasy, but not all of it. I love Tolkien, of course. I loved many of the Narnia books (esp. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader). Harry Potter. Now I'm reading Cornelia Funke's Dragon Rider to my boys, and we're enjoying that. I really like sci-fi, too, but I prefer to watch a good sci-fi series than read about it.Sherhazadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05875945554987676866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-36816575451172447562006-12-16T06:11:00.000-05:002006-12-16T06:11:00.000-05:00That story sounds fun!
I like the chocolate ice...That story sounds fun! <br /><br />I like the chocolate ice cream analogy. Books are just as subject to personal taste as food, or clothes, or colours, or whatever.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-89925588041022648292006-12-14T19:31:00.000-05:002006-12-14T19:31:00.000-05:00Oh, the only fantasy I ever liked was Tolkien and ...Oh, the only fantasy I ever liked was Tolkien and Katherine Kurtz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-70916625312861598962006-12-14T15:08:00.000-05:002006-12-14T15:08:00.000-05:00I like Fantasy and SciFi as genre, but I don't rea...I like Fantasy and SciFi as genre, but I don't read everything that's in the stores. It must have an interesting concept of world building and characters I care about, and be somewhat well written. Also, I'm not a fan of endless series. In SciFi, I want to be able to understand the technical/genetic/whatever background. <br /><br />Thus stuff like Robert Jordan or the Shannara books are ruled out, while Tad William's <i>Memory, Sorrow and Thorn</i> is on my keeper shelf, as is most by David Gemmell - his elements of pulp fiction are fun. And of course, there's Tolkien whose LOTR started me on Fantasy, Guy Gavriel Kay, GRR Martin, some of Sara Douglass (though not all she writes). I like some of Heinlein's SciFi books and the first <i>Dune</i> volume, or McMaster Bujold's unusual MC Miles Vorkosigan. And I keep finding interesting things by less well known authors, like Wen Spencer's <i>Ukiah Oregon</i> books taking place in the future, or Tamara Siler Jones' gritty <i>Dubric</i> mysteries in a Fantasy setting.Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-88460105525262467452006-12-14T13:56:00.000-05:002006-12-14T13:56:00.000-05:00I never read fantasy, either. (I'm going to have ...I never read fantasy, either. (I'm going to have to disagree with you on the chocolate ice cream issue, though.)Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-50002541751968692382006-12-14T06:39:00.000-05:002006-12-14T06:39:00.000-05:00I'm very choosy about what SF and fantasy I read. ...I'm very choosy about what SF and fantasy I read. I take an age in the bookshop, read snippets, flicking through, trying to work out if I'll like it. There's such a range of approaches and general variation.<br /><br />On the other hand, I don't mind watching either SF or fantasy on the TV. Mind you, I guess I can just switch channels or switch the TV off. <br /><br />But if I've bought a book ...Alex Bordessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18360540101147770320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-85329693790498563902006-12-14T04:23:00.000-05:002006-12-14T04:23:00.000-05:00I would have classified myself as a non fantasy re...I would have classified myself as a non fantasy reader, but I have found some really good fantasy that I really like this year.....it's interesting to be able to look at how much your reading tastes change during a year!Marghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13508430635744720721noreply@blogger.com