What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. A book about school-kids playing a role playing game. [s]
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At about that time Andre Norton published a book about college aged gamers called Quag Keep. But from your description, I don't really think it's that. But thought I'd throw it out there any way.
Paul wrote: "This is really bugging me, so help would be great!I don't know the author, this is a book I read between 25 to 30 years ago in a school library (UK). The plot was that there were 3 boys (1 being t..."
by Joel Rosenberg (part of series).Students who are playing D&D-esque game cross between real life and the fantasy world.
Long Shot:Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe. Don't let the awful cover fool you - the edition I read 25-30 years ago had a different and better cover.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...
Might it be
? It is about 4 kids playing a sci-fi themed role-playing game.
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The Joel Rosenberg books have a lot more characters than that starting out in the D&D game, but the girl does play a powerful magic caster. The main guy, Karl Cullinane, is a slightly geeky guy who turns into a big warrior on the fantasy side. There's a guy in a wheelchair who becomes a dwarf warrior, and there's Walter Slovotksy, who becomes a roguish type. There's another guy who becomes a powerful magic caster, and the game master doesn't actually travel to the fantasy world in the first book.
Ann aka Iftcan wrote: "Ok Cruth--thank you, I read your suggestion many years ago and was reminded of it by the OP here. I was going to wait and see if "my" book turned out to be the same book as the OP wanted. But then ..."I aim to please *grin*.
I also read the books years ago; I recall enjoying them a lot but didn't feel they were particularly challenging (to the genre). Strangely, I was thinking about them recently and considering looking them up for my teen. It's interesting to see they have become something of a classic and Rosenberg went on to produce so many in the series.
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Another long shot...Growing Up Weightless
I don't remember if it meets the specifics of your book, though. Just that it is half gaming, half real-world.
Hi guys thanks for this. Not quite there (but I thought mazes and monsters might have been it for a second). I think it may well have influenced the book I am thinking off.I remember the gamesmaster was supposed to be 'cheating' and one of the boys ended up taking the script out of his school-bag. The girl who had this powerful magic user ended up doing some kind of big mystical affect which killed her character and she left the game when this 'geeky' guy with the sprite character joined in. I am pretty sure the 'heroes' won in the end, but I am struggling for other details. The cover (which may have been different for some books)was a blue cover with a warrior type guy in armour (yellow plate?), cloak and a sword hanging over his head.
Well, there's Hobgoblin, which many people compare to Mazes and Monsters. There are many covers to it as well. Our library didn't have Hobgoblin, so I never read it, but I know there are similarities between the two.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
This is the cover of one of the UK releases of the book. Sounds a lot like what you are describing (be sure to look at ALL of the images):http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hobgoblin-Joh...
If not, that author wrote other things. Can't comment on any of them, but maybe something will ring a bell.
thanks again.I've had another look at maze and monsters and see it specifically mentions a sprite. I think this might actually be the book.
I have ordered it on-line, so if it is the book, I'll take this to the completed section.
thanks to all of you for your help.
No problem. I hope that's it. It was a really popular book, hitting at the height of the D&D craze, and then they made a TV movie with a very young Tom Hanks.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazes_an...
This is it! I can't believe they let me read this book when I was 7! Drug use, sex, suicidal tendencies/psychosis, mention of a rapist.......But thanks to you all, especially Railyn!
Especially well done, as I pretty much made a lot of mistakes as well!
Yay! I'm glad that was it. I think I was 11 or 12 when I read that book and I don't remember much about it either.
So I've just started to look for a book which sounds exactly like the description in the OP, and even more so from the information in post #12. However, it's NOT Mazes & Monsters, which I've read more recently, so that's confusing me a bit.
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Hi Kate; thanks for that. I've since located the book that I'm thinking of, and that I suspect the OP may also have read. It's called Gameplayers, by Stephen Bowkett - a book so obscure that it has no cover shown on Goodreads, and only one rating:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
From the fact that the OP probably read it in a school library, as did I and the person who identified it for me, I suspect it may only have been distributed to such libraries.
THAT IS IT!!!!!! Bravo Drew, I convinced myself it was M&M. Well Done!
What's the Name of That Book???
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I don't know the author, this is a book I read between 25 to 30 years ago in a school library (UK). The plot was that there were 3 boys (1 being the games master) and a girl and a (slightly geeky?) other boy.
I rembember the girl playing a powerful magic user, the boys playing fighter like characters and the geeky lad playing a sprite? It was set half in the real world and half in the fictional world. There was friction between the boys and the gamesmaster.
It's the first 'real' book I remember reading, so I would be grateful if you could help me out?