Dragons Wild
by Robert Lynn Asprin
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Read in March, 2008
For fans of the MYTH series, the characters will seem a bit familiar. The star of this new series, a young male, seems to blunder along, naive for his situation, yet very wise for his age, always managing to do the right thing, and surrounded by a group of strangers filled with useful skills and wise advice.
His sister - devastatingly sexy, supernaturally strong, and loyal to the male star.
Like I said, a bit familiar. I wish I could say the idea of dragons in human form was unique,...more
His sister - devastatingly sexy, supernaturally strong, and loyal to the male star.
Like I said, a bit familiar. I wish I could say the idea of dragons in human form was unique,...more
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Read in June, 2008
Book club for June.
Almost everyone in our book club had essentially the same sad thing to say -- what a poor book for Asprin to go out on. The writing is wooden and the phrasing is bad. Plot threads are created and dropped. The author loses track of the details of his setting (at one point, he makes a big deal of there being no windows in the main character's room, then in another he makes a big deal about the light streaming in through the window).
It reads like someone phoning it in....more
Almost everyone in our book club had essentially the same sad thing to say -- what a poor book for Asprin to go out on. The writing is wooden and the phrasing is bad. Plot threads are created and dropped. The author loses track of the details of his setting (at one point, he makes a big deal of there being no windows in the main character's room, then in another he makes a big deal about the light streaming in through the window).
It reads like someone phoning it in....more
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Read in May, 2008
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I heard Asprin read sections from this at Dragon*Con last year, so had been looking for it. It was reasonably entertaining, but somehow the picaresque form of this novel just didn't hold together for me. It didn't seem to have a clear arc, just several separate episodes. It felt a little like it was describing episodes from Season One of a TV series--sudden chapter transitions skipping forward several months are jarring when just about every chapter begins that way. This one just didn't feel...more
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It was fun mainly because it was Robert Aspirin and I loved the Myth series back when I was in high school. This series is VERY formulaic to the myth books: "Boy stumbles upon talents but doesn't know how to use them, boy has an unlikely posse of highly powered people that for various reasons need to align themselves behind the young screw-up, boy vanquishes demon (or whatever) in spite of himself by saying or stumbling upon just the right thing at the right moment, boy's reputation grows ...more
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Read in April, 2008
I really try not to give negative reviews, because I think fiction is too subjective for that kind of nonsense, and also, who the hell died and made me the Book Goddess? But with this book, I gotta say: when my husband brings me a book and says, "Look! Isn't this awesome? It's a book about dragons! Playing poker! How awesome is that?" then there damn well better be dragons. And there damn well better be poker. And where there's neither, well . . . it kind of sucks.
But Rober...more
But Rober...more
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Read in April, 2008
This book is not as fast as the Phule's books written by Aspirin alone. It is also not as engaging. It is very much a slow paced book with a lot of unnecessary world building. (Or maybe for most of yall it is necessary, but I've been to New Orleans enough that pages of this book were unnecessary.)
However, I still liked it and I've reread most of it twice now. I didn't immediately re-read it, but I liked it.
However, I still liked it and I've reread most of it twice now. I didn't immediately re-read it, but I liked it.
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Read in June, 2008
Too soon to say, 100 pages in, but this is back to the good old Asprin that I grew up with. Some of his more recent co-written Myth-adventure books really haven't done it for me. But this has the same absorbing page turner quality that I always loved about the Myth-adventures and first Phule books.
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Read in May, 2008
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Change "Skeeve" to "Griff", "Aahz" to "Mose" and "Bazaar at Deva" to "New Orleans" and you have this book.
Not looking for any more of this series.
Not looking for any more of this series.
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Read in June, 2008
Unique take on dragons. I liked it and look forward to the rest of the series.
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