A World of Fantasy Novels

[Tandy, Heidi]

An article at Slate Magazine today -
http://slate.msn.com/culturebox/entries/01-05-30_108987.asp
<http://slate.msn.com/culturebox/entries/01-05-30_108987.asp>  - discusses
fantasy novels, with a small highlight on the HP books, as well as Ursula
leGuin & Diana Wynn Jones - the author of the article writes, "the blinding
spotlight on Rowling is showing up their genre [of fantasy novels] -and a
lurid post-Tolkien genre it is, full of multi-thousand-page tetralogies
about plucky dragon-riders, staff-wielding dungeon tamers, and damsels with
hair so long and flowing it's a wonder they can keep it from getting tangled
in their gowns.