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Yuki_Onna posted a twitter-thing that went "Oh, WHATEVER, NYT. Condescending Much?" -- or words to that effect.
I'm guessing she means this bit:
Fantasy novels involve magic and are a little bit like magic themselves. To work, they require of readers a willingness to be fooled, to be gulled into a world of walking trees and talking lions. They affect us most powerfully as teenagers, but then most of us move on to sterner, staider stuff.
My sweet, potentially-curvascious ass. :-P All fiction requires suspension of fucking disbelief in order to work. It's fiction. Duh. :-P
Also, the reviewer has clearly never gone *beyond* Narnia and Harry Potter into, say, the world of urban fantasy, or paranormal romance for that matter, where sex and drugs and "adult themes" show up all the fucking time.
Really, now. :-P
That said, the book getting reviewed sounds like it might, just maybe, be good.
Potentially.
Thoughts, anyone? :-) I'm totally unfamiliar with the Lev Grossman and, as such, have no clue what to expect in terms of style or assumptions about the reading-audience or what-have-you.
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
I'm guessing she means this bit:
Fantasy novels involve magic and are a little bit like magic themselves. To work, they require of readers a willingness to be fooled, to be gulled into a world of walking trees and talking lions. They affect us most powerfully as teenagers, but then most of us move on to sterner, staider stuff.
My sweet, potentially-curvascious ass. :-P All fiction requires suspension of fucking disbelief in order to work. It's fiction. Duh. :-P
Also, the reviewer has clearly never gone *beyond* Narnia and Harry Potter into, say, the world of urban fantasy, or paranormal romance for that matter, where sex and drugs and "adult themes" show up all the fucking time.
Really, now. :-P
That said, the book getting reviewed sounds like it might, just maybe, be good.
Potentially.
Thoughts, anyone? :-) I'm totally unfamiliar with the Lev Grossman and, as such, have no clue what to expect in terms of style or assumptions about the reading-audience or what-have-you.
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
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