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Re: Fantasy rereads, for a change - feeling nostalgic, I guess. Rebekah Send a noteboard - 24/02/2016 01:42:39 PM

View original postBelgariad first, which failed to impress very much, but also didn't disappoint as much as when I reread Elenium/Tamuli a few years back - it doesn't have quite the same offensive ultra-violent approach to problem-solving, despite one highly problematic passage glorifying marital rape. One of the interesting aspects of rereading that is just how much fantasy has changed in those thirty-something years, both in terms of complexity and in terms of socio-political content.

Huh. Which passage was that? I don't remember that at all.

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