Comments on: I like a pretend world that hangs together http://emoglasses.org/2007/09/18/i-like-a-pretend-world-that-hangs-together/ a bully pulpit, updated whenever Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:07:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Charles Lehmer http://emoglasses.org/2007/09/18/i-like-a-pretend-world-that-hangs-together/#comment-41387 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:49:44 +0000 http://emoglasses.org/2007/09/18/i-like-a-pretend-world-that-hangs-together/#comment-41387 "A well-developed invented ecology is the only reason I can bring myself to stick with most fantasy novels. Most sport average-to-bad prose, but their evocation of a total world is what makes me a fan when it’s done well." That's both why I have managed to get through any other fantasy novel after Lord of the Rings and why I don't have the patience for them anymore. There must be a place, perhaps a magic land of elves and magic and pop Norse mythology where fantasy authors get together and write real stories, even ones with strong religious allegory, run-on sentences, anything other than "the world" as a selling point for fuck's sake. Anyway, keep living the Dream Nathan. “A well-developed invented ecology is the only reason I can bring myself to stick with most fantasy novels. Most sport average-to-bad prose, but their evocation of a total world is what makes me a fan when it’s done well.”

That’s both why I have managed to get through any other fantasy novel after Lord of the Rings and why I don’t have the patience for them anymore. There must be a place, perhaps a magic land of elves and magic and pop Norse mythology where fantasy authors get together and write real stories, even ones with strong religious allegory, run-on sentences, anything other than “the world” as a selling point for fuck’s sake.

Anyway, keep living the Dream Nathan.

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