by Rob on January 27, 2012
I have never liked the term, “guilty pleasure,” because it implies that people should feel a certain degree of shame over liking something that, for whatever reason, they feel that others would judge them harshly for liking. And then of course there is the subset of that attitude–hipsterism, which attempts to justify liking something one [...]
by Rob on January 25, 2012
I have always been a fan of big, grand, all-out, non-ironic, epic fantasy–magic, kingdoms at war, heroes, destiny, magic, mythic creatures, Big Bads, gods, villains, and, oh, yes, magic–but in recent years, a great deal of the epic fantasy out there primarily seeks to deconstruct the genre, to act as a commentary on its form, [...]