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A question re: Begining Fantacy for Youth

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Sun Nov 24 18:40:12 PST 2002

"Casey Rousseau" <casey at trinityhartford.org> writes:

> H.T. asked:
> > Since it appears the majority of everyone that had typed in 
> > the discussion of "fantasy" had began reading fantasy when
> > they were still young I thought I might ask what is
> > appropriate for a young fantasy reader?
> 
> Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever is
> notably missing from the discussion so far.  My favorite of these is the
> middle volume, The Illearth War.  I'd also recommend his short story
> collection Daughter of Regals and the two volume Mordant's Need series
> (The Mirror of her Dreams and A Man Rides Through) was reasonably
> entertaining.  I think by the time these came out I was older than your
> brother is now.

I would consider this both unfit for human consumption, and
specifically unfit for children.
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