After reading most of the posts on this thread, I find that I seem to be alone. I read any fantasy and I never compare it to anyone else. I can read a few chapters in FotR, then go to another room and pick up Mercedes Lackey and not compare the two at all. I'm just as into the modern fantasy as I am into Tolkien (only I don't spend hours on Valdemar-related websites [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] ).
However, the fantasy I read seems dependant on mood. I don't pick up Xanth when I want depth, I pick up the Silm or some other high fantasy book (like WOT or Moontide and Magic Rise).
And I guess that's all I have to say. So far.
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