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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2411339" data-attributes="member: 5171">Ditto Captain Tagon. I went through my "I want the stuff I read to be a total negation of normal fantasy fiction" phase. Now I want my fiction to be good, and I don't really specify one type of plot as good. I recently read some good (but not wonderful) fantasy that is arguably girl-with-harp fantasy, as St. William of Teflon would say -- girl chosen by a nature goddess to be magically bonded with a sentient eagle and go on adventures and prove to everyone who mocked her as a child that she's a good person. After that, I read some good comic fantasy (Kage Baker's "Anvil of the World", which I strongly recommend if you like humorous fantasy). I'm not really in a brooding antihero mood, so the brooding antihero stuff I've read lately hasn't done it for me. I did read some military fantasy that was pretty good, though, albeit with a bit too much coming-of-age thrown into the mix in such a way that it sort of made the story unwieldy at times.The comic fantasy is arguably a negation of normal fantasy, but not in a life-sucks way. Again, to agree with Tagon: I work for a living. It's good work, but it's work. I've got an 8-month old kid and a new house. I don't have a surplus of time to read, so if I do read, it's gonna be something that cheers me up and makes me happy. I've got better things to do than read about heroes forced to rape people by the author's plot device.</blockquote>

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