I kind of resent the saturation level Arthur has achieved; he seems to be everywhere, and I don't find him interesting.
I will not try to argue you out of your tastes; there are myths that do nothing for me. But The Crystal Cave is one of Stewart's best novels as far as I'm concerned.
It may be an extension of my aversion to fanfic; indeed, I think the whole corpus is essentially fanfic. I'm not interested in fairy-tale retellings either, and I think that's the same thing again.
Here I have a complete and utter philosophical disagreement with you: if a tradition has no single-author point of origin, I don't think it's possible for other authors to write it fanfic. I don't consider Aischylos' Myrmidons to be fanfic of the Iliad any more than I think Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber was ficcing Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm. Fanfic is a subspecies of retelling; it's not all forms of the thing itself.
If you just dislike retellings, though: again, I don't think I can talk you out of it. (Angela Carter is awesome!)
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I will not try to argue you out of your tastes; there are myths that do nothing for me. But The Crystal Cave is one of Stewart's best novels as far as I'm concerned.
It may be an extension of my aversion to fanfic; indeed, I think the whole corpus is essentially fanfic. I'm not interested in fairy-tale retellings either, and I think that's the same thing again.
Here I have a complete and utter philosophical disagreement with you: if a tradition has no single-author point of origin, I don't think it's possible for other authors to write it fanfic. I don't consider Aischylos' Myrmidons to be fanfic of the Iliad any more than I think Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber was ficcing Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm. Fanfic is a subspecies of retelling; it's not all forms of the thing itself.
If you just dislike retellings, though: again, I don't think I can talk you out of it. (Angela Carter is awesome!)