Monday, January 31, 2011

Three Interesting Discussions This Week on The Fantasy_Fiction_Forum Group

Should vampires be scary?

Twilight vs. Dracula: What's your preference?

Read any good urban fantasy lately?

Share your favorite authors and stories.

Do you prefer reading the book or seeing the movie?

We've started out by discussing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

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3 comments:

  1. Picked up Twilight several times but the scene of thPe girl on tv looking with soppy eyes at the pale faced vamp really put me off. I can't stand the eye fluttering romance kind of thing. Just get over it. Maybe that's my mood today. But I did read Bram Stoker's a long time ago and I remember it being very good. I shld read Anne Rice's books - time! For my reading, I prefer a mix of vampire and magic, not just straight blood sucking.

    Harry Potter - no, don't enjoy the premise of that kind of fantasy - film or movie.

    I started Hannibal Lecter series but never got the chance to finish. Great writing. The series for me is electrifying. I enjoyed both movies and film. I must have watched Hannibal Rising six times when it repeated during the week. I enjoyed the plot. Writing was well paced, fun to read, and captivating.

    My reading preferences have changed tremendously. Used to like horror a whole lot, detective (home spun kind like Poirot etc). If I had time now, wld like to read more dystopian - the concepts are mind blowing.

    I know the mainstream popular dystopian (like Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Brave New World, Hunger Games, Max Barry books etc. ) - does anyone know of any that is lesser known but seems a good read?

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  2. Hi,fiction. Why don't you join the Yahoo Group (button above)? We'd love to have you. You raise some interesting points, and we're trying to keep the discussions on the group so we can use threads to keep track of them all.

    Carole

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  3. Should vampires be scary? I think they should be what you make of them. The very concept of a 'vampire' is really just a reflection upon a deep part of human nature that has bloodlust and is violent and primal. They're a part of us, represented physically (with fangs), and I guess that is why we romanticize them... Some people chose to be frightened and others chose to embrace them.

    Dracula over Twilight, only because I've never read/watched the latter.

    I prefer science-fiction to fantasy fiction, so I really haven't read any fantasy lately and don't know much about authors of such.

    And I prefer reading the book, always. The movie sort of sets some things in stone (character's voices, their looks, the setting) in a way that the book doesn't, because there is a larger margin in which your imagination fills in the blanks when reading the book.

    - Caitlin (http://wordswrittenofechoes.blogspot.com/)

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