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This series definitely peaked with book five...and yet, six and seven have a kind of charm to them. It's a nice change for a sword & sorcery series to mature its characters, to really have them reckon with the tension between wanting stability and not wanting to let go of youthful thrills, to cultivate a new main setting, to build a recurring cast...
Mixed in with this charm and intriguing development is Old Man Horny Shit. The final story in particular has two sex farce scenes that, ah, sheesh. ...more
Mixed in with this charm and intriguing development is Old Man Horny Shit. The final story in particular has two sex farce scenes that, ah, sheesh. ...more
Fritz Leiber's final Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser book follows directly on from
Swords and Ice Magic
and is one of the most cohesive volumes in the series. For that reason, I found it to be better than some of the others and, indeed, far better than its immediate predecessor. Lieber's all-too-human heroes settled down in that volume and here we're given pause to ponder what that means exactly. Do heroes ever retire? For that matter, what of all their past sexual conquests? Presumably some of t
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