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Title	:	The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
Author	:	Diana Wynne Jones
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 234 pages
Published	:	October 5th 2006 by Firebird (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Humor. Fiction. Language. Writing. Reference

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Diana Wynne Jones

Paperback | Pages: 234 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 4540 Users | 383 Reviews

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The definitive edition of a cult classic by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones.

Imagine that all fantasy novels--the ones featuring dragons, knights, wizards, and magic--are set in the same place. That place is called Fantasyland. The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is your travel guide, a handbook to everything you might find: Evil, the Dark Lord, Stew, Boots (but not Socks), and what passes for Economics and Ecology. Both a hilarious send-up of the cliches of the genre and an indispensable guide for writers, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland has been nearly impossible to find for years. Now this cult classic is back, and readers can experience Diana Wynne Jones at her very best: incisive, funny, and wildly imaginative. This is the definitive edition of The Tough Guide, featuring a new map, an entirely new design, and additional material written for it by Diana Wynne Jones.World Fantasy Award Finalist

A Hugo Award Finalist (Nonfiction)

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Original Title:	The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
ISBN:	0142407224 (ISBN13: 9780142407226)
Edition Language:	English

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Awesome! This guide sets the bar for fantasy writers. Avoid these cliches and you may have my attention. I will laugh every time the characters have STEW.

If you have read at least a handful of traditional fantasy books, no doubt that most of the tropes found in this mock A-to-Z Fantasyland encyclopedia/travel guide (for a hypothetical tour of a Generic Fantasyland, organized by a sinisterly capitalized Management) will be familiar to you. You can read this book in a traditional way - front to back cover, or just pick up any entries at random - it's just as entertaining. It's hilarious and so true, and yet not condescending or malicious, and does

Any book that cracks me up, repeatedly, during the midst of a terrible black depressive episode gets five stars from me. A number of my Jones-fanatic friends don't like it, which surprised me. I think you have to have the right sense of nasty humour to truly appreciate it.

Immensely observational, acerbically witty, and endlessly entertaining. This wonderful triad of fantastically indispensable tropes make for a five-star book, in my opinion.Any work produced by Jones is guaranteed to be subversive, whether shes slyly inserting mind-boggling, serpentine plots within what masquerades as fairly innocuous stories, to, as Virginia Woolf so eloquently put it digging caves behind my characters. Jones makes you think. No take woven by her clever fingers is as simply as

If you have read at least a handful of traditional fantasy books, no doubt that most of the tropes found in this mock A-to-Z Fantasyland encyclopedia/travel guide (for a hypothetical tour of a Generic Fantasyland, organized by a sinisterly capitalized Management) will be familiar to you. You can read this book in a traditional way - front to back cover, or just pick up any entries at random - it's just as entertaining. It's hilarious and so true, and yet not condescending or malicious, and does

This book is a must-read for anyone who reads fantasy books, especially of the Lord of the Rings/"let's go on a quest" type. Written as though it's a tourist guide to "Fantasyland", it hilariously lampshades the genre's recurring tropes and character types. Because of its format, it's not really the sort of book that you read from start to finish -- I tried that initially and kept getting sidetracked by the cross-references, so eventually I gave it up and chose entries at random. It would be

Absolutely hilarious. The bit about the pollinating horses is probably my favourite. (No, I will not spoil it for you. You'll have to read it to see what I mean)