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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I guess I'm just not running into as much of that as everybody else seems to be in my reading. I look for a balance of everything that real life has to offer in my fiction (science- or otherwise): sadness, happiness, humor, horror, atrocity, tenderness redemption, conflict, epiphany, resolution, losing and winning. I want all of that. I don't want any of those elements filtered or artificially augmented. All optimism makes just as awful a story as complete pessimism does. Ups/downs, highs/lows—aren't these things all needed to tell a good story? Don't the good guys have to lose sometimes in order for good-guy/bad-guy to have any meaning at all?
So my question is; where is all this total bleakness and pessimism that everybody is telling me has taken over the genre? Cause I'm just not seeing it. I'm seeing an entire gamut from humor to horror. I'm seeing more variety/choices in the genre than we've ever had at anytime in the past, to tell you the truth.
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Well, I've gotten pretty adroit in avoiding most of it, but my (very) short list:
GRRM's entire body of work
Malazan Series
The Prince of Thorns
The Demon Cycle -(starting with The Painted/Warded Man)
The Troll Hunter
The First Law Series (Starting with The Blade Itself)
The Gentleman Bastards series
Of course, I've gotten in the habit of not reading the books my friends rec me because they are all gritty and depressing, so my list is shorter than most.
