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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 1058269" data-attributes="member: 8439">well, there's levels of challange to assumptions thats all well and good, and then theres a level where I simply feel I've been sold a false bill of goods. Here's a weird but maybe helpful analogy. If I go out to a sushi bar and all the sushi is wrapped in shredded cucumber isntead of rice because its the atkin's sushi bar, that would certainly challenge some asumptions about what I was going to be eating. At the same time, it would be an interesting challenge, and a acceptable switch. In the same way, when  barely pubescent girl is sold to a barbarian for an alliance, and he turns out to be a more considerate first lover than she would have gotten in a royal marriage, thats a nice challange to assumptions and worth reading.  Sushi doesn't have to be about a specific ingredient, novels don't have to play to all archetypes.Now, if I went to a sushi resturant and was served sushi rolls made entirely out of playdoh and beads because this resturant wanted to challenge my assumptions of what dinner is by presenting a lovely image without nutritional substance, I'd get my money back and be righteuously tweaked off. In the same way, my assumption that a novel will be about a group of characters overcoming challanges rather than, say, being killed in a meaningless, pathetic way by some random guy with no really good reason to do it... thats not open for enjoyable "challange". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Dinner is about food, novels are about vicarious enjoyment of others' stories.IMHO YMMV AFAIC etc, etc....Kahuna burger</blockquote>

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