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DrNefario
Posted 2014-08-09 9:39 AM (#8284 - in reply to #6198)
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Location: UK		My memory is that Pawn of Prophecy was originally just a mainstream fantasy book, but then that whole side of the field was probably treated as kids' stuff at the time. I know I originally read it when I was the same age as Garion (12-13, I believe), and I'd already read Lord of the Rings by then. I enjoyed it at the time, which is more than I can say for Shannara, but lI quickly felt I grew out of it, and looking back could see how much it relied on racial stereotypes and other cheap crutches (like the dreaded prophecy). Maybe it's best regarded as a fantasy primer for young readers.

I still love to wallow in a nice epic fantasy, but I feel it's possibly a bit like junk food. I'd eat it all the time if I didn't watch myself, and it's probably not good for me. ;-) I guess that's true of anything formulaic. Is Agatha Christie any different? There's always pleasure to be had from watching someone play with the rules, and a good practitioner is like a virtuoso musician: it's still the same instrument that the plodders are playing, but some people can make it sing.

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