TheOneOnly2
10-18-2020, 07:05 PM
Time Magazine has made a list of what it says are 'The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time' and it seems that nobody is happy about it. I heard about it the other day because I follow this hot blue stocking chick that is a fantasy book aficionado on youtube and she was really annoyed about the list - and since watching her video I keep getting youtube suggestions from other book nerds and every one of them is outraged.
I dont read a lot of fantasy because I hate the modern fandom associated with it. For example I despise adult Harry Potter fans. I also cannot stand the Lord of the Rings fandom ( and their stupid LOTRO game ). People that watched Game of Thrones make me want to vomit. And in general I hate the modern fad of fantasy novel fandom because I feel as though it is rooted in degeneracy and its also quite elitist which is utterly ridiculous since these pathetic fools are reading about %$%$ing wizards and elfs and whatnot. I also do not understand the term 'adult fantasy'. Obviously 'adult fantasy' contains adult themes and focuses on degeneracy - sex, rape, adultery, murder etc - like Game of Thrones - but its still. At the end of the day these people are reading books about wizards and elves so I think its a bit silly that they are so elitist and look down on others. Another thing is that most of these 'adult fantasy' fans spend a lot of time reading young adult fantasy which is also pretty degenerate and has a focus on sex like the Twilight series for example - young adult fantasy has a focus on teen sex rather than adult sex is the only real difference. Plus most of these people love Harry Potter and that is why they are the way they are - it never ended for them. They never grew up.
Its not as though I am against traditional fantasy though - one of my best friends when I was a kid was always reading the Terry Pratchett Discworld books and while I havent read a lot of them I have read some and I liked them - my favourite Terry Pratchett book that I have read is Equal Rites which is about a little girl called Esk that is a wizard. I have never read a Harry Potter book but I dont understand why there isnt more love for Esk - she is a great character and the book Equal Rites is perfect for modern times. Esk is way better than Harry Potter. But yeah my favourite fantasy writer is Terry Brooks. When I was a kid I loved the Magic Kingdom series - its a great series. I actually remember asking for a getting The Black Unicorn which is the second book in the Magic Kingdom series for Xmas when I was 12 or 13 and being really happy about it so I guess I was kind of a nerd. Ha.
The thing about Pratchett and Brooks is that their books are good wholesome fun and in my opinion that is what fantasy should be. Sure their books contain some adults themes but nothing degenerate.
So everyone seems to have some kind of problem with Times stupid list and mine is that unless I missed it there are no Terry Brooks books on the list and this is an outrage. Terry Brooks is influential as %$%$ when it comes to the fantasy genre. How the %$%$ do you make a list of the top 100 fantasy books and not have any Terry Brooks books on there? I am probably the only one that feels this way because the elitist freaks of modern fantasy fandom dont seem to have a high opinion of Terry Brooks. Many of these modern fantasy freaks seem to fancy themselves as budding fantasy writers and someone has told them that Terry Brooks is not a good writer. There are all these %$%$ing rules for writing a book apparently and according to these freaks Terry Brooks has not followed them. They claim that his books are poorly written. Apparently when you sit down to write a book you need to use some kind of %$%$ing template that some book professors at some university came up with and you follow that template and if you do the result will be a well written book.. I cant stand this kind of thinking. One of my favourite authors is Jack London and even I would admit that he probably isnt the best writer in the world but that doesnt means he couldnt write a good book. But I guess with Jack London his target audience wasnt a bunch of gate keeping elitist book %$%$wits that were going to judge his books based on some %$%$ing template devised by some %$%$ing book professors at some %$%$ing university so his books sold and the people that read them enjoyed them. Jack London was writing for us - not those %$%$ing idiots.
But yeah - no Terry Brooks. You have got to be %$%$ing kidding me. When I was a kid the big two fantasy guys were Pratchett and Brooks. He has to be on the list. I mean %$%$ - MTV made a tv show based on his The Shannara Chronicles series and sure that probably came about because of the fact that modern fantasy fandom is so big but clearly when MTV was looking for a way to cash in on this they had the sense to try to use an author that was influential in the genre. Terry %$%$ing Brooks. There has also been talk of a movie based on the Terry Brooks Magic Kingdom series for a few years now and I really hope that gets made because it would make a great movie that you could actually watch with your kids.
So Time justifies this propaganda list by having it selected by a panel which included N.K. Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, Sabaa Tahir, Tomi Adeyemi, Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Cassandra Clare and Marlon James. Now I couldnt give a %$%$ about any of these people but as hot blue stocking youtuber chick Elliot Brooks points out the list it totally biased by having these modern fantasy %$%$wits on the panel. I guess the best thing about this Time list is that is has encouraged the modern fantasy fandom to turn on these degenerate authors. I am enjoying seeing the fat degenerate %$%$ George R.R. Martin getting some hate from his own. So that is one good thing to come of this list.
Anyway - my favourite book that is on the list is The Arabian Nights. I do not think that The Arabian Nights is a very good book but I like it because it is hilarious. I certainly wouldnt read it to a child. Its funny to me that people think that The Arabian Nights is suitable for children. The beginning for goodness sake.. Cuckoldry, murder, wife beating... How is this appropriate for children? Tame by George R.R. Martin standards to be sure but that fat disgusting gluttonous %$%$ isnt writing books for children at least. I was also happy to see some Roald Dahl on the list because I had pretty much all of his books as a young kid and it was him and Australian author Paul Jennings that got me into reading. I was never a great fan of James and the Giant Peach though. The BFG was ok I guess. How about The Witches?
So how about you guys? Are you as outraged as the rest of us about this ridiculous Time Magazine 'The Best Fantasy Books of All Time' list? Is your favourite fantasy author or book missing from this list? What is your favourite book that is on the list?
Here is the Elliot Brooks youtube video on this -
https://youtu.be/leMUihROWjo
And this guy is hilarious -
https://youtu.be/LlsQMU-JpO8
https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/
https://youtu.be/QKnx075Ycyo
I dont read a lot of fantasy because I hate the modern fandom associated with it. For example I despise adult Harry Potter fans. I also cannot stand the Lord of the Rings fandom ( and their stupid LOTRO game ). People that watched Game of Thrones make me want to vomit. And in general I hate the modern fad of fantasy novel fandom because I feel as though it is rooted in degeneracy and its also quite elitist which is utterly ridiculous since these pathetic fools are reading about %$%$ing wizards and elfs and whatnot. I also do not understand the term 'adult fantasy'. Obviously 'adult fantasy' contains adult themes and focuses on degeneracy - sex, rape, adultery, murder etc - like Game of Thrones - but its still. At the end of the day these people are reading books about wizards and elves so I think its a bit silly that they are so elitist and look down on others. Another thing is that most of these 'adult fantasy' fans spend a lot of time reading young adult fantasy which is also pretty degenerate and has a focus on sex like the Twilight series for example - young adult fantasy has a focus on teen sex rather than adult sex is the only real difference. Plus most of these people love Harry Potter and that is why they are the way they are - it never ended for them. They never grew up.
Its not as though I am against traditional fantasy though - one of my best friends when I was a kid was always reading the Terry Pratchett Discworld books and while I havent read a lot of them I have read some and I liked them - my favourite Terry Pratchett book that I have read is Equal Rites which is about a little girl called Esk that is a wizard. I have never read a Harry Potter book but I dont understand why there isnt more love for Esk - she is a great character and the book Equal Rites is perfect for modern times. Esk is way better than Harry Potter. But yeah my favourite fantasy writer is Terry Brooks. When I was a kid I loved the Magic Kingdom series - its a great series. I actually remember asking for a getting The Black Unicorn which is the second book in the Magic Kingdom series for Xmas when I was 12 or 13 and being really happy about it so I guess I was kind of a nerd. Ha.
The thing about Pratchett and Brooks is that their books are good wholesome fun and in my opinion that is what fantasy should be. Sure their books contain some adults themes but nothing degenerate.
So everyone seems to have some kind of problem with Times stupid list and mine is that unless I missed it there are no Terry Brooks books on the list and this is an outrage. Terry Brooks is influential as %$%$ when it comes to the fantasy genre. How the %$%$ do you make a list of the top 100 fantasy books and not have any Terry Brooks books on there? I am probably the only one that feels this way because the elitist freaks of modern fantasy fandom dont seem to have a high opinion of Terry Brooks. Many of these modern fantasy freaks seem to fancy themselves as budding fantasy writers and someone has told them that Terry Brooks is not a good writer. There are all these %$%$ing rules for writing a book apparently and according to these freaks Terry Brooks has not followed them. They claim that his books are poorly written. Apparently when you sit down to write a book you need to use some kind of %$%$ing template that some book professors at some university came up with and you follow that template and if you do the result will be a well written book.. I cant stand this kind of thinking. One of my favourite authors is Jack London and even I would admit that he probably isnt the best writer in the world but that doesnt means he couldnt write a good book. But I guess with Jack London his target audience wasnt a bunch of gate keeping elitist book %$%$wits that were going to judge his books based on some %$%$ing template devised by some %$%$ing book professors at some %$%$ing university so his books sold and the people that read them enjoyed them. Jack London was writing for us - not those %$%$ing idiots.
But yeah - no Terry Brooks. You have got to be %$%$ing kidding me. When I was a kid the big two fantasy guys were Pratchett and Brooks. He has to be on the list. I mean %$%$ - MTV made a tv show based on his The Shannara Chronicles series and sure that probably came about because of the fact that modern fantasy fandom is so big but clearly when MTV was looking for a way to cash in on this they had the sense to try to use an author that was influential in the genre. Terry %$%$ing Brooks. There has also been talk of a movie based on the Terry Brooks Magic Kingdom series for a few years now and I really hope that gets made because it would make a great movie that you could actually watch with your kids.
So Time justifies this propaganda list by having it selected by a panel which included N.K. Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, Sabaa Tahir, Tomi Adeyemi, Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Cassandra Clare and Marlon James. Now I couldnt give a %$%$ about any of these people but as hot blue stocking youtuber chick Elliot Brooks points out the list it totally biased by having these modern fantasy %$%$wits on the panel. I guess the best thing about this Time list is that is has encouraged the modern fantasy fandom to turn on these degenerate authors. I am enjoying seeing the fat degenerate %$%$ George R.R. Martin getting some hate from his own. So that is one good thing to come of this list.
Anyway - my favourite book that is on the list is The Arabian Nights. I do not think that The Arabian Nights is a very good book but I like it because it is hilarious. I certainly wouldnt read it to a child. Its funny to me that people think that The Arabian Nights is suitable for children. The beginning for goodness sake.. Cuckoldry, murder, wife beating... How is this appropriate for children? Tame by George R.R. Martin standards to be sure but that fat disgusting gluttonous %$%$ isnt writing books for children at least. I was also happy to see some Roald Dahl on the list because I had pretty much all of his books as a young kid and it was him and Australian author Paul Jennings that got me into reading. I was never a great fan of James and the Giant Peach though. The BFG was ok I guess. How about The Witches?
So how about you guys? Are you as outraged as the rest of us about this ridiculous Time Magazine 'The Best Fantasy Books of All Time' list? Is your favourite fantasy author or book missing from this list? What is your favourite book that is on the list?
Here is the Elliot Brooks youtube video on this -
https://youtu.be/leMUihROWjo
And this guy is hilarious -
https://youtu.be/LlsQMU-JpO8
https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/
https://youtu.be/QKnx075Ycyo