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Stina's Challenge 2021 > Read an epic fantasy

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message 1: by Stina (new)
Jan 11, 2021 01:21PM

Stina (stinalyn) | 665 comments Mod
Despite reading lots of opinions on what makes a book epic fantasy -- or perhaps because of reading lots of opinions on the subject -- I really don't know what to tell you. Many of the "experts" directly contradict each other. Sooo....I guess if you read a fantasy book and think, "Yeah, that was epic," count it. There are no epic police here.


message 2: by Stina (new)
Apr 02, 2021 09:39PM

Stina (stinalyn) | 665 comments Mod
I listened to Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, the Seamus Heaney translation from about 20 years ago.


message 3: by Cheryl (new)
Aug 04, 2021 11:07AM

Cheryl (6of8) | 247 comments I will choose to interpret "epic fantasy" as explained by Wikipedia, also called high fantasy.

As such, Neil Gaiman's Stardust counts -- and I gave it 5 stars, which also makes it kind of epic, right?


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