Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" discussion
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What are you currently reading?
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Yeah, I was too broad with that statement."
I know it's engendered some ... spirited debate. :)
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@C.A. You should see the first two in the series. Raymond Swanland is the artist. Very distinctive.
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The Crystal Shard by RA Salvatore"Nice! That's what I wish I was reading (though I'm enjoying my re-read of The Eye of the World & also A Warrior's Curse by Jeffrey L. Kohanek ) but I can't find my paperback edition anywhere and I'm too dang broke to purchase a new copy/or the Kindle version.
*Just* finished "Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages" by Patrick J. Geary. If you want to do research on the theft of relics, perhaps as inspiration for a sword & sorcery story, you really couldn't do better!
Michael Fierce wrote: "Jason wrote: " The Crystal Shard by RA Salvatore"Nice! That's what I wish I was reading (though I'm enjoying my re-read of [book:The Eye of the Wor..."
I've been meaning to read this for over 30 years. I met Salvatore just after he signed his contract for this book. He's from the town next to the one I grew up in and he stopped by one day to give us writing-enthused high schoolers a talk about books and getting published. I started reading other books of his before beginning the dauntingly long Drizzt series.
Jason wrote: "Michael Fierce wrote: "Jason wrote: " The Crystal Shard by RA Salvatore"Nice! That's what I wish I was reading (though I'm enjoying my re-read of [..."
Cool story. I hope you have a good time with it.
I'm reading the graphic novel 1984 and it's great. The novel is one of my top 5, maybe top 2 books of all time.
Al wrote: "I'm reading the graphic novel 1984 and it's great. The novel is one of my top 5, maybe top 2 books of all time."We read the original in High school ... And today the word 'Orwellian' is commonplace. Interesting, since words form out of necessity of expression.
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This is a "currently watching" addendum to a relatively current read for me (I read The Warlord of Mars earlier this year) -- I just saw this video from Tom Scott about a rotating jail patented in 1881, and, not having heard about this before, I thought it might have been the inspiration for the rotating jail featured in The Gods/Warlord of Mars.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGXH...
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Just finishing up D&D's Out of the Abyss, a compilation of modules in which the players delve into the Underdark as made famous in a number of Forgotten Realms books. 
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Considering the sheer number of them, it seems almost surprising that it's one of the 5 or 6 of them that I've read (Icewind Dale trilogy, 1st of the Dark Elf trilogy, and the Legend collection of short stories).
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It was later for me, but it was the first one I read, and it was mostly because I loved the Icewind Dale game.
Dungeon Master's Guide for D&D's 5th edition. Gearing up to DM for my BIL and his boyfriend, along with a few of their friends. They asked me to do it over a year ago, but I wasn't comfortable with the new rules yet. I still don't have them completely down, thus the perusal of this book, but after playing in my brother's campaign over the past year, I feel like I'm on firmer ground.
Going to be reading that in 2 - 3 weeks myself. Still reading The Eye of the World and The Crystal Shard. Might take me a sec! Hope you have a good time with it, Joseph!
Recently started Dilvish, the Damned. Dilvish makes for an interesting S&S hero, more Elric than Conan, and Zelazny's storytelling has a mythical feel to it.
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J.W. wrote: "Hawkmoon by Michael Moorcock White Wolf Omnibus edition. While not as dark as his "Elric Saga," it's still very enjoyable."I'm currently reading (Dec 2021) Moorcock's "The Jewel in the Skull" which is the origin story for Dorian Hawkmoon, volume 1 of History of Runestaff series. Half way through and it's okay. Not high adventure but good for pulp style fantasy, I think.
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Yeah, I was too broad with that statement.