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How tastes change over the years (self.fantasy)
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I find it incredible how different I feel about certain books/series now vs how I felt about them 15 or 20 years ago. What sort of major changes have happened to your tastes during your fantasy journey?

I used to own every single Wheel of Time book and spent all my time on wotmania.com, but I have zero desire to read them ever again. Honestly, classic epic fantasy just doesn't do it for me in general anymore.

I don't tend to get excited about the next Brandon Sanderson novel, but I was a huge proponent of him when he was signing copies of Elantris in my tiny Idaho mall.

It'd be great if Rothfuss, Lynch or Martin finished their series, but I used to rant and rave about wanting them and now I just move on to things that are done. I can wait, and in the case of Rothfuss I'm not 100% sure those books are going to finish nearly as strongly as I first thought.

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

I more or less grew up reading High Fantasy, so I very much wanted stories with dragons and magic users and the like. Then I fell out of it for a long time (missed HP and GoT completely) and came back very recently to find my tastes are much different now. I want interesting characters and emotional impact and ideas to ponder more than wizards, swords, goblins and elves and epic quests.

I also find that my taste in prose is different than it used to be. Or rather my awareness of its role in drawing me in or putting me off has risen.

[–] Blunon 2 points 1 year ago

I'm kinda similar to that. I used to read a lot of fantasy but now often I find the characters kind of lacking. Maybe I'm remembering wrongly but that's why I really loved the earthsea saga. It had all of the fantasy elements, but I remember reading it and feeling it had more depth than a lot of other fantasy.