There’s an article I’ve been wanting to write for a very long time. The title was supposed to go along the lines of “In defence of Fantasy Literature”. Luckily, I googled it before I wrote it. It already exists – in several better or less well written versions.
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February 19, 2009Ok. Fine. So I started out making a simple reading log for myself. I struggled with not letting my thoughts contaminate the purity of the idea. And I lost. So there. Here are the random thoughts, the snippets, the semibiographical entries.
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February 9, 2009Let’s be honest here. Even if Robert E. Howard somehow ended up being the father of the modern hack-and-slash genre, barbarian in throes – the stories about Conan haven’t aged kindly. Deny it all you want. The charming hunk of muscle comes across as a half-crazed brute with an improbable amount of luck and stale [...]