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> Paul Freeman
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> enriched us with:
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> gilmae wrote:
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>> Yeah, when I read fantasy I want to *escape* reality.
LOL! Brilliant!
> It would be nice to just "escape" reality, and if Eddings
> thinks these are good books[1] then he has done just that.
Hmm -- fantasy /writing/ as escapism rather than the reading? I even
think that might have worked, to some extent, for Tolkien.
Makes me speculate also of Rowling, whose grasp of reality, however,
seems better than her readers' -- as long as she doesn't begin to
actually believe all they say about her (I'm not saying I don't enjoy
her books -- but I do think that there is some wriggle room between
enjoying and glorifying).
> [1] Sarabian would like to point out that he hasn't actually
> read these books, but in some horrible alternate universe he
> has (and maybe he's a CyberSarabian!) and I'm commenting on
> his(or her) behalf.
Which made me think (naturally) of L-Space: If not only every book
ever written is found there, but actually every book that might have
been written, then there must be a copy of 'these' that are actually
good -- written by some guy named Eddings in another, non-horrible,
alternate universe . . .
I just wish I could get hold of a copy of that ;)
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Troels Forchhammer
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