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Lots of maybes there Cudae!

Anyway, I find I only really like fantasies which are set in medievil times. (save Harry Potter but does that not have an 'ye olde times' element to it?) Perhaps it's just the simpler way of life, with the Robin Jarvis books which I've read, the plot may have been quite complicated at times but the basic notion of 'survival' is there, and is what everyone is trying to do when you get down to it.

In the real world, however, there are all these silly little things like money, jobs and education, cluttering the place up. The way of life is in no way unusual, millions of people have done it before you. In books it's original (unless you're going to get penickity and say some books have copied other books) and therefore there is an adventure and a complete sense of not knowing what will happen next can be created, which we very rarely get in the real world nowadays.