Ok, so this is my first time posting on a blog so please bear with me. :) I read everyone's previous posts and really agree with so much of what you guys have to say. I too started reading fantasy at a very young age but unlike so many of my peers at school I never lost my love for it. I really do think that just about anything in any form of media (movie, book, video game, backyard adventure) can in some way be categorized as fantasy as long as it allows your imagination to take free reign (I guess that's why I tend to merely tolerate non-fiction). I also would like to say that I am very excited about this class. Besides my little brother and I reading every Ann McCaffrey book at the library no one in my close circle has ever really shown an interest in the fantasy genre. And trust me, when I took on the complete Wheel of Time series I would have loved to have had some company! And, at the risk of soundy like complete-nerd-of-the-year, I cannot wait for this class, and especially my classmates, to introduce me to new titles in the fantasy genre for I really do think fantasy is in the eye of the beholder and the believer (or rather maybe non-believer is more approriate). Anyways, this is getting long and my hands are getting tired so: Can't wait! See everyone Wednesday!
Oh and P.S.
Pan's Labyrinth is onsale at Target for $10 as of this past weekend. I totally snatched a copy!!
About Me
- Andy Duncan
- I'm a professor of English at Frostburg State University in the western Maryland mountains; a fiction writer whose honors include a Nebula Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and three World Fantasy Awards; a journalist since age 17; and a lifelong collector of Forteana.
4 comments:
I bet you were REALLY mad when Robert Jordan died. Some friends of mine considered attending the funeral just to throw rotten tomatoes at his coffin, but then they remembered that they are wimps and don't want to go to jail. Is it true that he wiped his computer so that no one knows how the series ends?
ps. I'm pretty sure everyone is giddily excited about this class. And if they aren't- THEY SHOULD BE...OR THEY WILL BE. (depending on which sounds more threatening)
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See you Wednesday!
In fact, Jordan left extensive notes, and the final volume in the Wheel of Time series will be completed by novelist Brandon Sanderson, who was selected by Jordan's widow and editor, Harriet Rigney. Here's the Tor press release, from December.
I was so depressed the day I found out he had that terminal illness. I am glad for both of our sakes that he had time to fill his brother and wife in on the ending. It would have been terrible had he not been able to finish his life work. As for the series, I dont know how he planned to resolve all the plot twists but I personally cannot wait to spend a week on the couch finding out.
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