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Are Readers Growing Tired of New Urban Fantasy?
Zuriel:
DF is my first venture into the world of UF in book form. It's exactly my cup of tea. Pure fantasy is not and neither is techno SciFi either. But a mixture of everything suits me just fine. Someday I will read another UF book, once I get my "fix" of DF, which right now is not even on the horizon.
Even though books are highly subjective, I still marvel at the people I know who have read the books and haven't succumbed to obsession. What?? How can that be? :-\
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: Marie August on June 11, 2012, 06:14:02 AM ---I think readers are tired of poorly written, derivative novels that imitate best sellers. Readers are always happy to read something original and well done, and never happy to read all the other authors that try to profit off of the original success.
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I think you have a point. Which is why UF has been changing. At least with the new ones there seems to be vey few of the DF type anymore. Benedict Jacka's books are an exception. Good ones from I hear. I have two, maybe three, more books to read before I get to "fated" his first.
Actually I think UF has changed twice since Butcher and one or two female writers started this current rage. Probably better stated is that it is continually changing, perhaps because of your second sentence.
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: Zuriel on June 11, 2012, 04:15:05 PM ---It's just part of the game that authors pick up on the formula of a successful UF - or any other genre. If they can turn their book into something with a twist, something original, along with the copycat portions, and write well, then it becomes a book of its own right. But yeah, I cringe thinking of all the followers that try but never quite pull it off. I'm sure I'll run into a bunch of those as I branch out and read other UF besides DF.
There's nothing new under the sun. Everyone is just re-working what's already out there, so the challenge becomes making it their own, unique storytelling that uses what's been learned and read into a fresh, new perspective. It's not that easy.
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I'm not as critical of what I read as some people but I don't think I have ran into any of the poorly written copycats. Some nicely written copycats but not poorly. :)
Of course I'm picky of the ones I buy so I might be avoiding the bad writers. But I also reject good writers because their type of UF isn't quite what I want. Patricis Briggs is one-I'm not sure if I put her on my list. I love her writing and story telling abilities but the Mercy books are to romantic sounding for me. Well, they might be more paranormal than UF. Sometimes they are very close to each other.
Then again sometimes it's just not quite right for me. Like Rachael Craine--not sure about that last name--stormwardens series. Good writing, nice tale but something about it doesn't grab me even after reading three in that series.
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: Zuriel on June 12, 2012, 01:33:51 PM ---DF is my first venture into the world of UF in book form. It's exactly my cup of tea. Pure fantasy is not and neither is techno SciFi either. But a mixture of everything suits me just fine. Someday I will read another UF book, once I get my "fix" of DF, which right now is not even on the horizon.
Even though books are highly subjective, I still marvel at the people I know who have read the books and haven't succumbed to obsession. What?? How can that be? :-\
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I feel the same. It was my first try at UF, even though through the years I may have read a couple of short stories or stand alone UF books without realizing it. Now I'm hooks most of my reading is UF. But that may have to change. Three series have ended and even though Butcher is writing another DF novel how many more will follow? I think the Walker papers are going strong and Gilman's second series still needs at least three more. McGuire's old series has at least three more. Seems like there's another I'm losing but can't think of it right now.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: LDWriter2 on June 13, 2012, 03:31:29 AM ---Three series have ended and even though Butcher is writing another DF novel how many more will follow?
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Twenty or so casefiles in total and a Big Apocalyptic Trilogy to cap it off is the Plan, there. It is known.
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