The Appeal and Worth of Imagined Worlds
I was catching up on the blogosphere (read, procrastinating from putting words on pages) and discovered this wonderful blog by Chris Everest.
He puts my views of what makes fantasy/sci-fi so special with this one paragraph...
I'm so glad he mentioned Christine's Carpathians, because I completely agree with him. Part of what makes the Dark Series an eternal keeper on my shelf is the intrinsic honor and goodness of the Carpathians, and their selfless determination to fight the dark side of their own natures to become heroes truly worthy of their happy ending.
And congratulations to Christine for debuting at #3 on the NY Times Bestseller's list for Hardcover Fiction! She deserves every moment of her phenomenal success!
He puts my views of what makes fantasy/sci-fi so special with this one paragraph...
Likewise Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth novels or Roy Clarke's Last of the Summer Wine, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast or Christine Feehan's Carpathians they all convey in a microcosm the universe as their author sees it or would want others to see it. The popularity of each work further emphasizing that many other participants see it the same way. The accusations of escapism only block off an imaginative entry into these worlds - to see the honour in a work by the late great David Gemmell ; fighting against despair because it must be done - to see faith and loyalty in the words of James Barclay. The response of the reader to these works - to these worlds - is more than is termed a demeaningly described suspension of disbelief - it is a true spiritualised belief far from the religiose demands of compulsion - but not in broadswords and elvish heroes but in a humanistic capacity to improve and grow.
I'm so glad he mentioned Christine's Carpathians, because I completely agree with him. Part of what makes the Dark Series an eternal keeper on my shelf is the intrinsic honor and goodness of the Carpathians, and their selfless determination to fight the dark side of their own natures to become heroes truly worthy of their happy ending.
And congratulations to Christine for debuting at #3 on the NY Times Bestseller's list for Hardcover Fiction! She deserves every moment of her phenomenal success!
posted by C.L. Wilson at
4:19 AM
1 Comments:
Hello, Miss Wilson, I'm a 13 yr old reader, I have read a lot of Miss Feehan's 'Dark' series, and also some of Nora Robert's books, though I have read many other books, none of the writers books stuck with me as you three do. Though being 13, you may think what someone my age would be doing with a book or books that mature. Right? Well my mother knows how I love, and yearn for knowledge, I adore a good love story, just as anyone else does. You're first book to the 'Fading Lands' series, made me want the second one all the more! I can't wait for the next book! I also have a very important question for you. Me and my friends, we are all young women, that have begun writing stories of our own. We would very much like to know, is it a foolish dream to try for something you'd possibly never get any recognition for, or keep our heads held high, as we come along in the world with our dreams? And also, if we should decide to finish them, or even want them recognized, how would we go about doing so?
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