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Literature does not exist in a vacuum Larry Send a noteboard - 06/12/2009 10:53:58 PM
I'm just merely acknowledging that and that literature is one of several ways that people relate their hopes, fears, dreams, and aspirations (among other things) for others to interpret and to consider. If that is hubris...strange...
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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Since people are weighing in on that best fantasy list I posted, how many on this list have ya read? Larry - 06/12/2009 05:22:40 AM 2409 Views
A lot of those books aren't fantasy. Tom - 06/12/2009 05:34:18 AM 936 Views
Most of those depend upon how loosely one defines it Larry - 06/12/2009 06:41:50 AM 916 Views
Up next, fantasy fans attempt to co-opt Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/12/2009 07:20:03 AM 338 Views
Actually, considering who put that list together, I'd at least look into their rationales Larry - 06/12/2009 07:42:11 AM 842 Views
Mmm... there's been a pronounced tendency among spec ficcers, from what I've seen, Ghavrel - 06/12/2009 09:09:26 AM 1102 Views
I agree Camilla - 06/12/2009 09:35:32 AM 833 Views
I'm a bit different than that Larry - 06/12/2009 09:20:09 PM 920 Views
Re: I'm a bit different than that Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:04:47 AM 953 Views
Then what should it be defined as? Larry - 07/12/2009 02:28:55 AM 990 Views
What, didn't you major in Fixing Up Confusions and other Issues? Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:49:30 AM 691 Views
I majored in raising more questions and doubting absolutes Larry - 07/12/2009 02:50:35 AM 815 Views
You majored in being a pain in the butt is what you majored in. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:52:00 AM 867 Views
No, that was my second minor Larry - 07/12/2009 02:54:53 AM 760 Views
In that case, I trust my definition more than theirs. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 03:05:32 AM 838 Views
Re: I majored in raising more questions and doubting absolutes The_Last_Gunslinger - 08/12/2009 10:59:03 PM 874 Views
Not really Larry - 08/12/2009 11:19:46 PM 1231 Views
Fantasy has no easy definition. Werthead - 07/12/2009 02:46:33 AM 895 Views
That's true. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:50:37 AM 877 Views
But the Song of Soloman is certainly akin to that *NM* Larry - 07/12/2009 02:51:21 AM 305 Views
No, that's just porn. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:52:24 AM 402 Views
If you redefine fatasy as fiction, the category loses its value Camilla - 06/12/2009 12:33:03 PM 873 Views
Remember what I studied for my grad degree Larry - 06/12/2009 04:10:08 PM 896 Views
Re: Remember what I studied for my grad degree Camilla - 06/12/2009 04:33:58 PM 920 Views
Really? Larry - 06/12/2009 09:22:21 PM 1027 Views
Re: Really? Camilla - 06/12/2009 10:49:36 PM 1025 Views
Literature does not exist in a vacuum Larry - 06/12/2009 10:53:58 PM 668 Views
Obviously I know that Camilla - 06/12/2009 11:30:55 PM 844 Views
But it is a material artifact of a culture Larry - 07/12/2009 12:47:45 AM 748 Views
But that is not all it is. Camilla - 07/12/2009 08:16:32 AM 954 Views
Indeed. A lot of them are science fiction. Werthead - 06/12/2009 04:32:26 PM 862 Views
Re: Indeed. A lot of them are science fiction. Camilla - 06/12/2009 05:01:55 PM 766 Views
Several dozen contributed to the suggestion list Larry - 06/12/2009 09:23:21 PM 704 Views
I've read 34. Legolas - 06/12/2009 10:53:38 AM 736 Views
Well, when individual preferences affect listings, such things happen, I guess Larry - 06/12/2009 09:24:39 PM 745 Views
78 that I have finished, but that is really not the point. Camilla - 06/12/2009 11:55:16 AM 888 Views
Definitions of "fantasy" vary considerably Larry - 06/12/2009 09:25:35 PM 833 Views
According to the one you just applied, my master's thesis was one... Camilla - 06/12/2009 10:47:25 PM 748 Views
It's just a state of mind, I suppose Larry - 07/12/2009 12:50:22 AM 854 Views
Re: It's just a state of mind, I suppose Camilla - 07/12/2009 08:17:09 AM 877 Views
I've read 28. Linda - 06/12/2009 03:42:40 PM 954 Views
89... but in general, that is many by the same author. jh - 06/12/2009 06:17:06 PM 732 Views
46. This is an idiotic list. A Confederacy of Dunces just IS NOT fantasy. Ghavrel - 06/12/2009 08:34:07 PM 965 Views
You say that, based on having read maybe 2% of the list? Larry - 06/12/2009 09:27:32 PM 664 Views
Jane Eyre? Napoleon62 - 07/12/2009 12:00:36 AM 815 Views
It plays upon the Gothic novel precepts Larry - 07/12/2009 12:51:31 AM 695 Views
Larry...come on...if it's Fantasy I have a bridge in Brooklyn for you to buy Tom - 07/12/2009 04:17:38 AM 861 Views
Devise a better? Larry - 07/12/2009 04:34:46 AM 783 Views
It would be much shorter Tom - 07/12/2009 02:20:05 PM 1054 Views
It should be shorter than some of the ones you listed Larry - 08/12/2009 11:26:35 PM 792 Views
Argh. Your quoting skills need work. *NM* Ghavrel - 09/12/2009 08:58:15 AM 408 Views
You seem to be misunderstanding Tom's post. Legolas - 09/12/2009 10:57:08 AM 799 Views
No,I was just just commenting on my likes/dislikes of that list Larry - 09/12/2009 01:21:45 PM 938 Views
I think you are misunderstanding again... jh - 09/12/2009 01:46:49 PM 913 Views
Yes. What Jonte said. *NM* Legolas - 09/12/2009 02:41:41 PM 437 Views
Oh,that Larry - 09/12/2009 06:07:11 PM 991 Views
Re: It should be shorter than some of the ones you listed Camilla - 21/12/2009 09:35:11 AM 1195 Views
I read it very recently. He masturbates to a dog. Fetishes != fantasy. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 01:58:57 AM 713 Views
Like I said, it's been years for me Larry - 07/12/2009 02:30:58 AM 913 Views
No worries. That one just got me a little testy. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:48:01 AM 810 Views
96... but so many books are missing that i can think of... i mean, really! temeraire - 07/12/2009 02:07:18 AM 779 Views
It's an interesting experiment of a list, miki, and I think it's little more than that Larry - 07/12/2009 02:29:56 AM 705 Views
I've read about 90 of them ranagrande - 18/12/2009 03:37:49 PM 1118 Views
It would be a more interesting list if it contained more books that fantasy fans would want to read random thoughts - 30/12/2009 06:35:18 PM 934 Views
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