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Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber
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May 16, 11


I always wondered what was wrong with me that I couldn't get into sword-and sorcery books. Then I picked up my 1st Leiber book, and figured it out. They take themselves too seriously. There's not enough humor.

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser remedies that nicely. I'm pretty sure I read this specific book--but I know I've read quite a few of them.

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message 1: by Jayaprakash (new) - rated it 4 stars
May 16, 2011 06:35pm

Jayaprakash Satyamurthy These are delightful books, except for a bit of 'salutory rape' (Leiber's phrase, not mine) in one of the volumes (perhaps this one?) that never quite sat well with me. Stories that work as capers with a sprinkling of weird magic, and open out into a grander scale as well.

I don't know if you've seen this link or not: http://cthulhuwho1.com/2010/10/07/fri...


message 2: by Patrick (new)
May 17, 2011 10:41am

Patrick Haven't read the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser books in years, but I sure remember all the disturbing "salutory rape," which got especially kinky in the later stories (or
maybe it was always kinky).

Fritz Leiber was the bomb in Equinox!


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