The first fantasy novel I read was the first of the Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I was quite young when my mother was reading to me, at my request - the book seems to be long and discouraging for the nine year old girl I was. About twelve chapters, though, I started to cheat I continue to read after my mother would be at work and say good night. A few chapters later, I felt guilty and confessed to my mother what I did. She laughed and let me read it on my own in the future. This is the first medium-length book I read on my own.
Today it seems so fun for me, after reading the series on the series of eight hundred pages of books. Fantasy novels tend to be long and full of twisting, complex myriad of characters and plots. One of my series was even a section of the "Dramatis Personae" at the beginning of it, lest the reader should forget who is who.
Too many people criticize the novels of fantasy themes: idealized past, patriarchal societies, a suspect or appreciation of the socialist system of monarchical government. The ironic and critical presentation of these systems is evident in both books is often completely overlooked.
In addition, there is so little appreciation for the enormous amount of research and imagination that goes into the authors of the work. Fantasy writers to create entire worlds from scratch, from the political tangle of irrigation systems, magic spells for the religions of the layout of the land to the flora that grows in it. When they are not building their world, they are researching ancient war, the hundreds of deities that exist in religions past and present, how the reality of monarchies and worked once more. And only the perpetrators of this type of fantasy - there are many different types and sub-genres they are difficult to keep right, and critics often do not bother to distinguish them whatsoever.
I held these views about my heart for as long as I read fantasy, and I never had the opportunity to research these phenomena. Why is fantasy so scorned? Why is not appreciated, but considered only as a genre for children and adolescents and readers? Why the authors of fantasy not praised for their style of writing at least? Why fantasy novels achieve the lists of best-seller, but then beaten and criticism?
I hope it is not the case that many of the fantasy genre to be treated as sub-par so many - especially when the books are fun, but not read well-written to become best-sellers overnight.
