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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 2315 Views
A lot of those books aren't fantasy. Tom - 06/12/2009 05:34:18 AM 845 Views
Most of those depend upon how loosely one defines it Larry - 06/12/2009 06:41:50 AM 823 Views
Up next, fantasy fans attempt to co-opt Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/12/2009 07:20:03 AM 263 Views
Actually, considering who put that list together, I'd at least look into their rationales Larry - 06/12/2009 07:42:11 AM 753 Views
Mmm... there's been a pronounced tendency among spec ficcers, from what I've seen, Ghavrel - 06/12/2009 09:09:26 AM 1012 Views
I agree Camilla - 06/12/2009 09:35:32 AM 742 Views
I'm a bit different than that Larry - 06/12/2009 09:20:09 PM 825 Views
Re: I'm a bit different than that Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:04:47 AM 855 Views
Then what should it be defined as? Larry - 07/12/2009 02:28:55 AM 897 Views
What, didn't you major in Fixing Up Confusions and other Issues? Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:49:30 AM 593 Views
I majored in raising more questions and doubting absolutes Larry - 07/12/2009 02:50:35 AM 715 Views
You majored in being a pain in the butt is what you majored in. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:52:00 AM 768 Views
No, that was my second minor Larry - 07/12/2009 02:54:53 AM 675 Views
In that case, I trust my definition more than theirs. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 03:05:32 AM 740 Views
Re: I majored in raising more questions and doubting absolutes The_Last_Gunslinger - 08/12/2009 10:59:03 PM 786 Views
Not really Larry - 08/12/2009 11:19:46 PM 1089 Views
Fantasy has no easy definition. Werthead - 07/12/2009 02:46:33 AM 802 Views
That's true. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:50:37 AM 767 Views
But the Song of Soloman is certainly akin to that *NM* Larry - 07/12/2009 02:51:21 AM 259 Views
No, that's just porn. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:52:24 AM 356 Views
If you redefine fatasy as fiction, the category loses its value Camilla - 06/12/2009 12:33:03 PM 782 Views
Remember what I studied for my grad degree Larry - 06/12/2009 04:10:08 PM 792 Views
Re: Remember what I studied for my grad degree Camilla - 06/12/2009 04:33:58 PM 806 Views
Really? Larry - 06/12/2009 09:22:21 PM 923 Views
Re: Really? Camilla - 06/12/2009 10:49:36 PM 875 Views
Literature does not exist in a vacuum Larry - 06/12/2009 10:53:58 PM 581 Views
Obviously I know that Camilla - 06/12/2009 11:30:55 PM 747 Views
But it is a material artifact of a culture Larry - 07/12/2009 12:47:45 AM 646 Views
But that is not all it is. Camilla - 07/12/2009 08:16:32 AM 846 Views
Indeed. A lot of them are science fiction. Werthead - 06/12/2009 04:32:26 PM 768 Views
Re: Indeed. A lot of them are science fiction. Camilla - 06/12/2009 05:01:55 PM 677 Views
Several dozen contributed to the suggestion list Larry - 06/12/2009 09:23:21 PM 597 Views
I've read 34. Legolas - 06/12/2009 10:53:38 AM 644 Views
Well, when individual preferences affect listings, such things happen, I guess Larry - 06/12/2009 09:24:39 PM 646 Views
78 that I have finished, but that is really not the point. Camilla - 06/12/2009 11:55:16 AM 792 Views
Definitions of "fantasy" vary considerably Larry - 06/12/2009 09:25:35 PM 745 Views
According to the one you just applied, my master's thesis was one... Camilla - 06/12/2009 10:47:25 PM 657 Views
It's just a state of mind, I suppose Larry - 07/12/2009 12:50:22 AM 761 Views
Re: It's just a state of mind, I suppose Camilla - 07/12/2009 08:17:09 AM 790 Views
I've read 28. Linda - 06/12/2009 03:42:40 PM 847 Views
89... but in general, that is many by the same author. jh - 06/12/2009 06:17:06 PM 647 Views
46. This is an idiotic list. A Confederacy of Dunces just IS NOT fantasy. Ghavrel - 06/12/2009 08:34:07 PM 874 Views
You say that, based on having read maybe 2% of the list? Larry - 06/12/2009 09:27:32 PM 577 Views
Jane Eyre? Napoleon62 - 07/12/2009 12:00:36 AM 720 Views
It plays upon the Gothic novel precepts Larry - 07/12/2009 12:51:31 AM 610 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 776 Views
Devise a better? Larry - 07/12/2009 04:34:46 AM 692 Views
It would be much shorter Tom - 07/12/2009 02:20:05 PM 958 Views
It should be shorter than some of the ones you listed Larry - 08/12/2009 11:26:35 PM 701 Views
Argh. Your quoting skills need work. *NM* Ghavrel - 09/12/2009 08:58:15 AM 364 Views
You seem to be misunderstanding Tom's post. Legolas - 09/12/2009 10:57:08 AM 711 Views
No,I was just just commenting on my likes/dislikes of that list Larry - 09/12/2009 01:21:45 PM 844 Views
I think you are misunderstanding again... jh - 09/12/2009 01:46:49 PM 815 Views
Yes. What Jonte said. *NM* Legolas - 09/12/2009 02:41:41 PM 382 Views
Oh,that Larry - 09/12/2009 06:07:11 PM 892 Views
Re: It should be shorter than some of the ones you listed Camilla - 21/12/2009 09:35:11 AM 1104 Views
I read it very recently. He masturbates to a dog. Fetishes != fantasy. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 01:58:57 AM 624 Views
Like I said, it's been years for me Larry - 07/12/2009 02:30:58 AM 824 Views
No worries. That one just got me a little testy. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:48:01 AM 718 Views
96... but so many books are missing that i can think of... i mean, really! temeraire - 07/12/2009 02:07:18 AM 686 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 610 Views
I've read about 90 of them ranagrande - 18/12/2009 03:37:49 PM 999 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 850 Views
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