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dustydigger
Posted 2014-08-12 1:34 AM (#8288 - in reply to #6198)
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Location: UK		I can see that most of the people who loved it were quite young,at the time and it all must have seemed fairly fresh,though it does have the obligatory long journey,Gandalf- like figure,a magic orb,and a boy with a secret lineage. Perhaps I am just to old to enjoy it fully.,and the whole gene is still firmly in the enormous shadow cast by Tolkien,which is rather impressive. I think it is 60 years this year since Fellowship of the Rings was published!Sword of Shannara was pretty dire,dull,derivative and longwinded. Last year when I read it ,as an important link in the chain of development of a whole flourishing subgenre,I had to take it in small doses like medicine,and it took me a whole month to read it.! lol.
I agree about the formulaic nature of genre fiction of all kinds,,and your very apt analogy about virtuoso/plodding performers There is a variety of instruments,and it seems the '' instrument'' of fantasy isnt really my thing. SF and crime fiction are so much more my cup of tea.

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