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Completely agree. I greatly enjoyed the Thomas Covenant series as a teen. But really didn't like Moorcocks work. A pet peeve of mine is when a writer uses "Sex
by zaphar 12y ago
Completely agree. I greatly enjoyed the Thomas Covenant series as a teen. But really didn't like Moorcocks work.
A pet peeve of mine is when a writer uses "Sex and Violence" as a crutch to stand out and "push boundaries". I don't enjoy that sort of writing and as a general rule find that the whole trope gets used to hide the lack of good writing in a piece.
And the derision of Tolkien is just beyond me. The depths of Tolkeins characters is staggering. It seems like the complaints mostly boil down to Hero's with moral fiber are boring. I don't get it.
- thenomad 12y agoSex and violence are a way to stand out, and they can be used very effectively for that. Clive Barker springs to mind as someone who crafts genuinely original, brilliantly written stories from those elements, for example. But I agree, there's a tendency toward using them lazily - in the cast of fantasy, largely in the wake of Song of Ice And Fire. It'll calm down in a bit, I'm sure, just as the unoriginal fantasy doorstops tailed off in the late '80s as the D&D craze faded.