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What is your favourite genre in literature and what do you think it says about you?
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<blockquote data-quote="Wicked Willow" data-source="post: 53378053" data-attributes="member: 109935"><p>Back in my teenage years (well, the first half of my teenage years, anyway), I was a "fantasy-only" type of person: why bother with reading about the dreary tedium of the real world if you could soar across the skies on the back of a dragon, save the world out of the clutches of some ancient evil with some magical artifact, learn to tap the magic of the world - or even just find your One True Love?</p><p></p><p>Then, I realized two things at once:</p><p>1. Most fantasy novels are frustratingly formulaic, and shoddily written to boot. And</p><p>2. Whether a novel is interesting or not depends on more factors than just the setting - and literary quality features prominently among these.</p><p></p><p>As a result, I ended up majoring in English Literature, and have become so enamoured with literary texts that I'm currently writing my PhD-thesis on the subject. (Writing my first novel is pretty high up on my priority list as well, but so far I haven't found the time to indulge my desires.)</p><p></p><p>There are very few genres that I shun altogether - and when I do, it's mostly because of their overall literary quality. I've even found a couple of decent (or even excellent) fantasy novels over the years: Jaqueline Carey's "Kushiel"-Series, George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire", Gregory Maguire's oevre...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wicked Willow, post: 53378053, member: 109935"] Back in my teenage years (well, the first half of my teenage years, anyway), I was a "fantasy-only" type of person: why bother with reading about the dreary tedium of the real world if you could soar across the skies on the back of a dragon, save the world out of the clutches of some ancient evil with some magical artifact, learn to tap the magic of the world - or even just find your One True Love? Then, I realized two things at once: 1. Most fantasy novels are frustratingly formulaic, and shoddily written to boot. And 2. Whether a novel is interesting or not depends on more factors than just the setting - and literary quality features prominently among these. As a result, I ended up majoring in English Literature, and have become so enamoured with literary texts that I'm currently writing my PhD-thesis on the subject. (Writing my first novel is pretty high up on my priority list as well, but so far I haven't found the time to indulge my desires.) There are very few genres that I shun altogether - and when I do, it's mostly because of their overall literary quality. I've even found a couple of decent (or even excellent) fantasy novels over the years: Jaqueline Carey's "Kushiel"-Series, George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire", Gregory Maguire's oevre... [/QUOTE]
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