If there were any books I liked when I was younger that I would be really embarrassed about now, I've managed to erase them from my memory. Well, except for Donald Duck comics, those were just shit and I did like them. Most other comics I liked still stand up to scrutiny today.
I did like Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series a lot, and nowadays I have some trouble with that because they're full of the kind of magical elitism I've come to really dislike, but I still think they're very well-written books, for being YA stuff.
Which reminds me: Hey, fantasy authors, cut it out with the following:
1) Good vs. Evil. I'm thoroughly sick of it. 2) Magical elitism. I don't want to hear another thing about people who are BETTER than everyone else because they can use MAGIC, yet they still stoop so low as to HELP those far inferior to them because they're JUST THAT GOOD.
Not that I actually read any fantasy. Because, 1) and 2).
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Date: 2005-12-20 05:47 am (UTC)I did like Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series a lot, and nowadays I have some trouble with that because they're full of the kind of magical elitism I've come to really dislike, but I still think they're very well-written books, for being YA stuff.
Which reminds me: Hey, fantasy authors, cut it out with the following:
1) Good vs. Evil. I'm thoroughly sick of it.
2) Magical elitism. I don't want to hear another thing about people who are BETTER than everyone else because they can use MAGIC, yet they still stoop so low as to HELP those far inferior to them because they're JUST THAT GOOD.
Not that I actually read any fantasy. Because, 1) and 2).