Jim Wright @meanwright

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Jim Wright @meanwright

3 days ago

(23) Swords and Deviltry, Fritz Leiber. First book of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Two individual stories that end with the hero getting the girl. And then the two heroes meet in "Ill Met in Lankhmar," and hopes and dreams are crushed.

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3 days ago

How to insult your professor on day 1: Rent the book.

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2 weeks ago

Earth becomes and alien game show dungeon crawl. Very X-Crawl. Let's play XCC.

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2 weeks ago

(22) Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman Lots of people told me this was good. They were right. Just ignore the attempts at social commentary. It's the social commentary of a cat-portraitist.

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2 weeks ago

The number of recurring characters increases. Good enough after it gets going, but I had to skip Chapter 9 because it was so trite I kept putting the books down. I could be cut and the story wouldn't change.

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2 weeks ago

(20) The Quiet Man, Caimh McDonnell Bunny gets himself locked in a Nevada prison and gets shivved over an argument about biscuits. He want's sausage gravy poured over his Oreos.

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2 weeks ago

(21) The Strix-Witch, Daniel Ogden The history of the folklore of the Strix. It's a magical vampiric were-owl.

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2 weeks ago

(19) The Broken Sword, Poul Anderson Savage fantasy book from 1950's about a confrontation between Trolls and Elves led by a changeling and the Human child the Elves swapped for the changeling.

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2 months ago

(18) Life in a Medieval Castle, Giles and Giles. Chapters on various people found and events in a castle.

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2 months ago

(17) Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman A plane crash over the Grand Canyon in 1954 affects an inheritance in 2004. US 666 makes an appearance, but I'm not sure it was still around when the book was written.

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2 months ago

(16) "Philip Jose Farmer's" The Dungeon, Volume I: The Dark Tower by Richard A. Lupoff. A Victorian explorer is kidnapped into an underground kingdom while searching for his lost brother. Plot makes no sense.

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2 months ago

(15) Quantitative Reasoning, Eric Zaslow. Ten case studies on how how to use basic math to think quantitatively about various issues. It has ten chapters, the author teaches at Northwestern, which means that Northwestern is on a quarter system.

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Jim Wright @meanwright

3 months ago

I am also going to note how much I hate "gods need human belief." If Fred Saberhagen couldn't pull it off, neither can you. Only Fritz Leiber's "Lean Times in Lankhmar" and Terry Pratchett's _Small Gods_ (which lampooned Lean Times as much as the Bible) did it well.

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3 months ago

(14) Ring the Bells, C.M. McDonnell. This Christmas story stars the Stranger Times cast. An ancient god returns to Earth and exploits children's belief in Santa to gain power. Mildly disappointing compared to Relight My Fire, which was probably the best of the series so far.

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Jim Wright @meanwright

3 months ago

* Showing that I read Pratchett's books far after the fan service started disrupting my enjoyment of the novels** in Feet of Clay, but they would have been better stories without it. ** Don't read anything of Discworld before Equal Rites, don't read anything after Feet of Clay.

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Jim Wright @meanwright

3 months ago

As much as I like Cogs and Zeke, they don't need to be in every story, for example. Interesting pair, useful when useful. Non-essential fan service. I don't know if it's reached the Werewolves Directing Traffic level of annoying,* but it's noticeable.

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3 months ago

(13) The Fallible Fiend, L. Sprague de Camp. Bookish and bumbling demon is invoked to serve a wizard, run a carnival, and save a nation. Mildly entertaining, from an author I usually like. Interesting reference to the Unbeheaded King series, though, which is one that holds up.

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Jim Wright @meanwright

4 months ago

(12) I Have Sinned, Caimh McDonnell. As in all great Irish literature, this novel begins and ends with a fart. Parallelism between the comic-book style international assassination ring and an urban gang. An Irishman dressed as a monk exposes himself. You'll love it.

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4 months ago

(11) The Wailing Wind, Tony Hillerman A little different because the two POV characters were Leaphorn and Manuelito (instead of Chee). A dead man in a truck. A convicted murderer. A missing woman. A cold case. An army base.