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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 2928614" data-attributes="member: 9037">I always enjoy when the conversations about any thing like fantasy or SF or movies turns to how almost all of its is crap and how there is nothing original being written or produced and its stated as if its a fact that can't be disputed.Taste in books, movies, music is subjective what is one man's crap is another man's gold. I read a lot of fantasy and some of its crqp and some of its gold. I don't always agree with  other people on what's good. Take LOTR loved the movies think the books are tedious to read. I feel the same way about Robert Heinlen's later work when he got so powerful they stopped making him edit his books and some of them really could have done with an editor.I remember sitting in a freezing cold hotel confrence room listening to speaker at the Confrence of the Fanastic going on and on about how most fantasy being written is crap and how writers have sold out and how nothing is original its all Tolkein and Conan rip offs. That was back in 1984. I really feel that that people who engange in this kind of doom and gloom talk are coming off just a little pretentious. It has always seemed one way to show how smart you are by looking down your nose at something. After all most fantasy is just to plebian for such refined taste.</blockquote>