30 day book meme: Day 12

[regshoe]

12. I pretend to have read it.

Was a difficult one for me to think of anything for, because I really don't do this. There are books I think I ought to have read, books I think other people might think I ought to have read, books other people might be surprised I haven't read. For a sort of fan of fantasy fiction in general, I haven't read quite a bit of the older 'classic' fantasy that you might expect—I like a few very specific and generally pretty unusual fantasy books. And there are several major Victorian authors who I haven't read much or anything from. But I don't actually say I've read them when I haven't!

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[regshoe]

Yeah, exactly—Tolkien and Lewis have similar philosophical underpinnings in some ways but Narnia isn't at all copying the trappings of Middle-earth. And most of the fantasy books I love 'stand outside the mainstream' in some way—JSMN certainly does!—or they're older than Tolkien and came before that LOTR-influenced fantasy tradition.