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What was your biggest fantasy book disappointment? (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] Spacebar 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dragon Riders of Pern. I read them as a kid. Tried to reread them as a 50 year old man.

I just couldn't do it. It made me question what my young self was thinking.

[–] IonAddis 1 points 1 year ago

It's still one of my favorite series/authors--but MAN, none of it aged well, and I totally recognize that.

(Todd McCaffrey hasn't his mother's gift of style or voice--but even he recognized some stuff was shitty and tried to fix it.)

I still want a movie or TV show. The general idea is sound, so if you modernize it and tackle some of the shitty stuff head on, you could do some amazing things with it.

(I write fanfic and have been playing with this...just straight-up changing the stupid parts of canon, or at least having characters confront it head on as part of their arcs.)