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Squueeeeeeeeeee! I went to the bookstore today and picked up the second-most-recent Harry Dresden book - Dead Beat! And at the used bookstore, another of Jim Butcher's books, the first book to a different series, called "Furies of Calderon". AND a Neil Gaiman book, "American Gods". I have heard Gaiman praised on LJ, but hadn't ever heard of him, but was lucky enough to find (by accident) a few of his books at the used bookstore. If I like this one, I'll look for the others. It was in the Horror section.
Speaking of the Horror section - why is it that, really, the horror that *I* find in that part of the bookstore (used and new) are the books I tend to call fantasy, or Dark Fantasy? Because, really, to me, that's what they are. Especially King's books, and a few others. I suppose, because these books don't usually involve fairies, elves, magic swords or other European trappings of Imitation Tolkein, it's not Fantasy. It's all marketing, in any case. But I find myself amused that I, the person who can't sit through a genuinely scarey horror flick, am eating these Dark Fantasy books up.
I'm finding any fantasy novel set in a time of castles and kings and nobles and cliched swords and maidens just bore me to tears. I think I like contemporary fantasy with an edge much more. Plus the usual SF.
Speaking of the Horror section - why is it that, really, the horror that *I* find in that part of the bookstore (used and new) are the books I tend to call fantasy, or Dark Fantasy? Because, really, to me, that's what they are. Especially King's books, and a few others. I suppose, because these books don't usually involve fairies, elves, magic swords or other European trappings of Imitation Tolkein, it's not Fantasy. It's all marketing, in any case. But I find myself amused that I, the person who can't sit through a genuinely scarey horror flick, am eating these Dark Fantasy books up.
I'm finding any fantasy novel set in a time of castles and kings and nobles and cliched swords and maidens just bore me to tears. I think I like contemporary fantasy with an edge much more. Plus the usual SF.
