Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-12-2010

[andrewducker]

• Mamma Mia! It's the voice of Mario!
  (tags: Mario nintendo voice acting)
• Some People (a comic)
  (tags: comic)
• The canonical computer hardware chart
  (Now waiting for someone to point out all the things it doesn't contain)
  (tags: hardware computer reference)
• The 10 Most Harmful Novels for Aspiring Writers
  (tags: writing literature books advice)
• The Onion Sports Introduction To World Cup Soccer
  Now I understand everything!
  (tags: football onion infographic funny)
• Playing Grand Theft Auto with a 4-year-old
  (tags: gaming children gta kids videogames)
• Product is ready
  (tags: funny technology)
• Publishing Company Under Fire for Putting Warning Label on Constitution
  (tags: history news shopping)
• How to add ITV HD to Sky+HD
  (tags: tv uk itv sky hd)
• Unhealthy living almost universal in Scotland
  More fries with your deep-fried pizza?
  (tags: health scotland diet alcohol obesity poverty smoking)
• Israel plans to send bill to Palestinians over boycotts
  (tags: israel palestine politics EpicFail)
• Gender neutral language in roleplaying games
  (tags: gender language roleplaying games)
• Orange to follow O2 and Vodafone in dumping "unlimited data" tarrifs
  (tags: data mobile broadband uk technology)

Comments

[andrewducker]

???
Exactly one book on the list was fantasy. And I think that lavishly copying Tolkien and producing Extruded Fantasy Product is one of those traps that writers should be warned about.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know it mostly wasn't focussed on that, but the entry on Tolkein really pissed me off. Maybe I should give them the benefit of the doubt, but it seemed to me they were attacking most of the mainstream fantasy genre.

(And I see a lot more merit in what many people call "extruded fantasy" than those people tend to. There's a lot of extremely good fantasy writing out there, and not all of it needs to be or is aggressively original in its setting. However, it tends to get ghettoised and belittled, with the implication that the millions of people who enjoy it are therefore clearly just stupid or tasteless.)