O, how I empathize with you, and consider deconstruct to be the most apt phrase to describe my post-graduation consumption of media. I think the fantasy genre is especially hounded by formula and tradition, though I have found that YA fantasy often takes more risks than adult fantasy... I can recommend Basilisk by N.M. Browne, Dreamhunter by Elizabeth Knox, and if you haven't read Philip Pullman or Garth Nix yet, which I am doubting, they're both quite thrilling. Tamora Pierce's Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen are also quite good, though everything else I've picked up by her is rubbish.
I've not read Eragon, and for many of the reasons you explore.
Perhaps someday I shall fine tune the art of shutting off my brain and read, occasionally, as I once did. Trouble is I can't decide if that's really what I want.
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Date: 2006-12-17 03:47 pm (UTC)I've not read Eragon, and for many of the reasons you explore.
Perhaps someday I shall fine tune the art of shutting off my brain and read, occasionally, as I once did. Trouble is I can't decide if that's really what I want.