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what does /lit/ think of Conjure Wife?

>> No.1006695

>urban fantasy

What the fuck does this even mean?

>> No.1006699

>>1006695
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UrbanFantasy

Basically, it has magic and sometimes other fantasy elements (such as vampires or elves or some shit) but it takes place in modern Earth.

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1006703

>>1006699

>> No.1006710

>>1006703
It's a taste thing.

>> No.1006714

>>1006699
Why would anyone want to read such novels when most people haven't even read world classics?

>> No.1006715
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1006715

>>1006691

>>1006699

>> No.1006718

>>1006695
its set in the now - well, 1940s since that is when it was written
rather than a made up pseudo-historical world (Conan, Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser, Elric, etc) or historical world (The Broken Sword, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Arthurian stories, etc)

>> No.1006723

>>1006714
see >>1006710

>> No.1006739

>do not want
>I haven't read it or heard of the author but it appears to be fantasy so I'll act like a typical e/lit/ist with unread copies of Nabokov and Dostoyevsky on his shelves

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1006742

>>1006699
>>1006691
>>1006723

>> No.1006753

>the use of reactionimages and popular hatedom makes me cool, right guys?

I'm not much into urban fantasy myself. But, nevermind the troll. I've never heard of it. What's it about, OP?

>> No.1006756
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1006756

>>1006691
>>1006699
>>1006710
>>1006723
>>1006739
>>1006753

>> No.1006764

>>1006753
an anthropology professor whose work specializes in deconstructing primitive myths and beliefs discovers that his wife is practicing witchcraft
and that it is quite real
and the other faculty wives are too
and they're locked in battle to protect & advance their husbands

>> No.1006774

Die.

>> No.1006776

>>1006756
shouldn't you go dust all those literary classics you've got?
wouldn't want anyone to think they're unread the next time you photograph them

>> No.1006780

this isn't some LULZRANDOMXDHARDBOILEDVAMPIREDETIVEEROTICA this is a quite serious work

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1006791

>>1006776

>> No.1006817

>>1006776
Rule number one of the internet: Don't feed the trolls.

>>1006764
Hmm. It's one of the only books of his I don't have, I think. I dunno how much he's written.

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1006823

>>1006817

>> No.1007111

>>1006817
You should be able to find it, its his only other work besides the Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser series currently in print - the OP picture is the cover of a new edition
And there is always second-hand bookshops