Why do Fantasy fans review books like this?

Why do Fantasy fans review books like this?

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Because they're braindead idiots who take these categories seriously.

D&D and video games

>Can't read this masterwork of fiction, shit magic system.

The books aren't worth any real analysis, this is a good little handy book so long as you trust the taste of the reviewer.

magic not being handled well can ruin the belivability of the world. it should probably just be a part of worldbuilding but they probably couldn't think of an alternative sixth point to use in the hexagon.

you joke but I have friends who are into fantasy and dnd and shit and I have unironically been recommended books for their magic systems

They could simply use a pentagon.

To be fair, magic is the most abused trope in genre fiction. It's usually employed as an appallingly cheap plot device. Instigating consistent rules for magic would help to mitigate this (not that many authors do it.)

Fuck you

So, uh, what if there’s no “magic system” or magic at all?

GOTTA TICK ALL THE BOXES

Then what makes it a fantasy?

>Reading any works of fiction at all that utilize "magic" as a plot device beyond the age of twelve

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300 year old elves and shit?

>>Reading any works of non-fiction at all that utilize "magic" as a plot device beyond the age of twelve

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Kek.

the only redeeming feature of Sanderson is his magic systems, and that was enough for me to read several of his books

Because writing is a completely subjective medium and as such is of infinite utility

>Sanderson

Why do people like Sand so much?

what the fuck dude
I started to read one of his series where they "flare metals" or some shit and it was so fucking terribly written and soaked in exposition there was no way in hell I could make it to the end.
>oh look he can fly but only if there's a coin under his foot for him to push off
I don't care and I don't need 10 minutes of exposition to explain the shit

because he has interesting magic systemsthe whole point of the book is that that shit is kinda cool, it's not like it's real literature

Jews basically

the exposition is the fun part tho
it's more about theorycrafting the rules of the world, less about actual literature
maybe I'm just an autist idk

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they can't read

the genre has become so formularic that you can reduce every new book to a few essential segments and pit them against each other like soccer teams.
writers try their best to fulfill preset goals rather than expressing their creativity, so actually segmenting their product and comparing it against other similar ones just comes.
like, could you imagine doing such a thing for a comparison between wallace and kafka? their usage of symbolism and characters is so wildly different that it can't simply be projected on a flat four point scale - art, after all, is in the eye of the beholder.
fantasy, on the other hand, is objective and solved. there's one ideal, and books get measured based on how well they hold up against the ideal. a dumb scale is well suited for that task.

Do you not know why people read fantasy? Hint: it's in the name of the genre.

not magic

There's a significant overlap between fantasy fans and "sciency" people who think the seriousness of some endeavor is directly related to how measurable it is. This sort of strange charts invariably follows.