Mystical Angels

What do you look for in fantasy?

what kind of things do you look for in reading? an armoured knight to sweep you off your feet? love? hilarity? death? friendship? mystical creatures or just a good old fasioned battle between good and evil with bad guys with strange names you can't pronounce? please share!

Public Comments

1. mystical forest with talking trees, magic sand and riddles that takes you to far away lands...
2. Personally, I look for something that doesn't have a boy magician with glasses and his annoying redheaded and frizzy headed friends in it. Pax - C
3. For me a good fantasy really traps me in fantasy land and makes me almost believe that what I'm reading is real. I suppose what I really need is an engaging plot and very interesting characters. Obviously though you can't beat crazy unpronounceable names!
4. Sex, blood; conquest, humiliation; hegemony and wealth. "Grant me revenge!" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women." That is good time music! Death is not instructive. Permanent mutilation is instructive. General Curtis LeMay's firebombiing of *almost* every city in Japan was a sparrow spart in a hurricane. He literally melted all but nine of them and history has forgotten. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still hotly feared 60 years later. It wasn't the casualties that did it, it was the survivors. Victory! And revenge for Pearl Harbor. Bush the Lesser had a week post 11 September 2001 to thermonuke any Muslim citiy or cities his tiny stone cold heart desired. Bush the Lesser is an idiot and a poltroon. Now,. http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/america.png this has become http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/bushist.png this. What good is fanasy if it does not open imagination to remake the world?
5. I look for a good, well developed plot and setting. I love it when and author takes old ideas (ie time travel, dragons, etc) and puts a new twist on it.
6. I love realistic characters! If I can't relate to a character cause they're one-dimensional and talk like stereotypical fantasy characters, then I won't read a book. Plus I love modern settings. You can't tell me I'm the only one getting tired of kingdoms and magical lands set in midevil times!
7. I love action, adventure and romance with fantastic creatures and great characterization. I'm not really big into epics, names I can't pronounce or 14 pages to describe a cloud in the sky. Other than that I'm open to about anything.
8. well mostly that its sinteresting and unique. some of the best fantasy stuff I've read are by aimee bender. she is truky one great writer. u should read her stuff they are great certainly will keep u entertain and asking for more.