[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Fantasy Survey: Can I ask you to take a moment...?

[svalkyre at aol.com]

1. Have you ever read any of the "Oz" books by L. Frank Baum  and
other authors? (Y/N) No


2. If yes, what did you like about  them?  What did you not like?


3. Do you like to read fantasy in  general? (Y/N) Yes

4. If yes, what is your favorite fantasy  series?

Harry Potter now, but I have loved LOTR a long time!

5.  What do you like about that series?

The realistic picture of  interactions and the range of his imagination!

6. Which of the the  following do you believe enhances a good fantasy
(or fiction in general)?  :

-- Interesting plotlines?    Yes
-- Unexpected plot twists?  Yes
--  Complex, multi-dimensional characters?  May be my most important  
qualification
-- Coherent, non-self-contradicting story  continuity?  Yes
-- Science fiction  elements?  Not necessarily
-- Action / Adventure  elements?  I don't think you can have a good story 
without  them
-- Romantic Elements?   I can take  them or leave them, they can be very 
important in showing the interaction  between characters psychologically, mentally 
and  physically.
-- Sexual Elements / Nudity?   Not  necessarily (rarely important to the 
story for me)

Most important:  Complex Characters, Interesting Plot, Action/Adventure  
elements.



 
Denise
Every gun that is made, every warship  launched, every rocket fired 
signifies, 
in the final sense, a theft  from those who hunger and are not fed, those who 
are cold and are not  clothed.  
This world in arms is not spending money alone, It is  spending the sweat of 
its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of  its children...
Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity  hanging from a cross of  
iron.

Dwight D.  Eisenhower
April 16, 1953


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