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3.5 stars This novel collects the first of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories. The first two stories, The Snow Women and the Unholy Grail introduce us to Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser individually. While these are decent stories, the real magic is when the two meet for the first time in Ill Met In Lankhmar which is a superb story in the classic sword and sorcery meets buddy book genre. The last story is a 4.0 to 4.5 star story. The relative weakness of the first two stores is what brings the ov
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This is one of those "classic" series that I've never heard about. Leiber's writing reminds me a lot of the pulp work of Robert E. Howard, where economy and speed take precedence over everything else. The story moves fast, but has enough action and character depth to remain entertaining, although I won't put it up there with true classics like LOTR or Chronicles of Narnia. Still, this short first book was enjoyable enough for me to give the second book in the series a shot. I liked the two leads
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Started off a little slow... but by the end of the book I was thoroughly invested and can see why this duo are so iconic in the Fantasy/Sword & Sorcery genre.
A little slow in places, but a decent sword and sorcery tale.
Mar 01, 2010
James
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it was amazing
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