What other fantasy books do YOU read? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

skip spence · 05-31-2009, 02:48 PM

Guess I'm not really a fantasy fan. I've got the impression Tolkien killed the genre off by perfecting it and when I tried to get into other fantasy works in my teens I did not get very far. To me they (I don't remember titles) were just pale copies or inferior variations, with the author obviously writing in the shadow of Tolkien. Then again, the books I did try might simply have been bad apples that put me off an otherwise decent harvest. Maybe I should give it another go. Any suggestions?

05-31-2009, 02:48 PM	#11
skip spence shadow of a doubt Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Back on the streets Posts: 1,125	Guess I'm not really a fantasy fan. I've got the impression Tolkien killed the genre off by perfecting it and when I tried to get into other fantasy works in my teens I did not get very far. To me they (I don't remember titles) were just pale copies or inferior variations, with the author obviously writing in the shadow of Tolkien. Then again, the books I did try might simply have been bad apples that put me off an otherwise decent harvest. Maybe I should give it another go. Any suggestions? __________________ "You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way" ~ Bob Dylan

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