Comments on: Redefining Genre: Urban Fantasy? http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/redefining-genre-urban-fantasy/ Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A Dizzy Whore 1804 | Uncreated Conscience http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/redefining-genre-urban-fantasy/comment-page-1/#comment-113 A Dizzy Whore 1804 | Uncreated Conscience Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:52:01 +0000 http://jaejones.aigoo-chamna.net/?p=1346#comment-113 [...] exactly is “high fantasy?” I’ve blogged before about my fatigue with urban fantasy, but apparently my boredom with high fantasy is much greater. Anyone can recognise the tropes: high [...] [...] exactly is “high fantasy?” I’ve blogged before about my fatigue with urban fantasy, but apparently my boredom with high fantasy is much greater. Anyone can recognise the tropes: high [...]

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]]> By: Still Looking For More To Read | Uncreated Conscience http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/redefining-genre-urban-fantasy/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Still Looking For More To Read | Uncreated Conscience Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:54:15 +0000 http://jaejones.aigoo-chamna.net/?p=1346#comment-106 [...] So. I am one of the people who Just Don’t Get It, according to the Smart Bitches. It is true; I am not a reader of romance. To date, I think I’ve read…7 novels? I was indeed scarred by my first experience, although let it be known it’s not as though I didn’t try. (For the record, I enjoy Georgette Heyer quite a bit.) And I’m certainly not one of those people who disparage the genre as being “chick porn” or written for intellectually inferior women. My dearest, most darling Sofa is one of the smartest, most intelligent women I know and she has a penchant for anything by Linda Howard. I am sympathetic to romance readers; after all, I read for romantic plotlines in my books. I also understand what it’s like to be a devourer of commercial fiction that’s considered somewhat “less” than high-brow literary fiction. Case in point: my favourite genres are young adult and fantasy, but mostly young adult fantasy. [...] [...] So. I am one of the people who Just Don’t Get It, according to the Smart Bitches. It is true; I am not a reader of romance. To date, I think I’ve read…7 novels? I was indeed scarred by my first experience, although let it be known it’s not as though I didn’t try. (For the record, I enjoy Georgette Heyer quite a bit.) And I’m certainly not one of those people who disparage the genre as being “chick porn” or written for intellectually inferior women. My dearest, most darling Sofa is one of the smartest, most intelligent women I know and she has a penchant for anything by Linda Howard. I am sympathetic to romance readers; after all, I read for romantic plotlines in my books. I also understand what it’s like to be a devourer of commercial fiction that’s considered somewhat “less” than high-brow literary fiction. Case in point: my favourite genres are young adult and fantasy, but mostly young adult fantasy. [...]

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