Comments on: Escapism http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/escapism The international organization of multi-published novelists Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Susan Kelley http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/escapism/comment-page-1#comment-2793 Susan Kelley Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:29:59 +0000 http://www.ninc.com/blog/?p=2490#comment-2793 There are so many people who are missing the stress buster of reading. I love reading fantasy novels as well as writing them. I was thinking about how we escape into our favorite books and how in the current economic times we need it more than ever. Have you ever read a fantasy novel where the big problem they’re facing is an overdue morgage, a lost investment, health care costs or down-sizing. Saving mankind is so much more exciting than the real world.

]]> By: Laura Resnick http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/escapism/comment-page-1#comment-2792 Laura Resnick Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:20:48 +0000 http://www.ninc.com/blog/?p=2490#comment-2792 “I like C.S. Lewis’s comment, that that the usual enemies of escape are jailers.”

I had never heard this before. Excellent!

I’ve always been baffled by people who look down on escapism. If a book is so absorbing and enthralling that it takes your outside of yourself… er, just how much more powerful a reading experience is there than THAT, for goodness sake?

LauraR

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