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Dec 05, 2022 12:08PM
The Revenge of the Rose
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Richard wrote: "Looters of Tharn
"How are you finding it? I bounced off the only two books I tried in the Blade series so I gave up. But since I liked some of the Kregen series but got bored with the others, maybe there's some Blade books I'll like after all?
@DarielThe series is written by several different authors, so some books are better than others. Although all of them follow the same formula. It’s just pure escapism.
If you read the first two books and decided it just wasn’t for you, then I would leave it at that. You’re not missing out on anything.
Dariel wrote: "Richard wrote: "Looters of Tharn
"How are you finding it? I bounced off the only two books I tried in the Blade series so I gave up. But since I..."
The first 8 books where written by Manning Lee Stokes and all the rest except 1 are written by Roland Green. But as Richard said they are all very formula.
Thanks, Richard and David! Back to Barsoom and Callisto for me then :-). And maybe a side trip to Kregen or Llarn!
Finished Conan - Blood of the Serpent and still had pastiche on the mind, so I started For the Witch Of the Mists, a Bran Mak Morn book by David C. Smith and Richard Tierney that I picked up recently on my first visit to the reopened Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore.
Im halfway thru the new Elric, Citadel of Forgotten Myths. It's ok.
kudos to Joseph for helping support Uncle Hugo's store
kudos to Joseph for helping support Uncle Hugo's store
S.E. wrote: "Im halfway thru the new Elric, Citadel of Forgotten Myths. It's ok.
kudos to Joseph for helping support Uncle Hugo's store"
Oh, I've been bringing treasures home from Uncle Hugo's since 1990 or so ... Admittedly, less so since I started reading on my Kindle, and since I pretty much ran out of places to put things.
And I finished Into the Riverlands (it's a short, and excellent, novella) and decided to veer into some space opera with K.B. Wagers' Behind the Throne.
kudos to Joseph for helping support Uncle Hugo's store"
Oh, I've been bringing treasures home from Uncle Hugo's since 1990 or so ... Admittedly, less so since I started reading on my Kindle, and since I pretty much ran out of places to put things.
And I finished Into the Riverlands (it's a short, and excellent, novella) and decided to veer into some space opera with K.B. Wagers' Behind the Throne.
Savage Realms Monthly: December 2022: A collection of dark fantasy sword and sorcery short adventure stories
I read K.B. Wagers' Beyond the Empire (third in her Indranan War trilogy) in the space of about 48 hours and started Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which I expect will take quite a bit longer.
Just finished this - a couple of incredible stories in here. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Finished Warriors and started horror collection In a Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner, back in print for the first time in almost 40 years.
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