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"I enjoyed Emmi Itäranta's story "The Bearer of the Bone Harp", but the rest did little for me."
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"Not the worst Star Wars novel but not the best either. Parts of it read like an advertisement for the Galaxy's Edge theme park (which I guess is more or less the purpose of the novel), and it was often immersion-breaking at these parts. I'd be int..."
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"Reading this set of tales for the second time through, it occurred to me that most of them are actually ghost stories told in a fantastic milieu. This doesn't really surprise me, as Leiber successfully told many ghost stories in a modern/contempor..."
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Stephen's review
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Swords Against Death (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #2):
"4.0 to 4.5 stars. These stories are a ton of fun. If you like the Dying Earth by Jack Vance and the Conan stories by Robert E. Howard, you will love these stories. Highly Recommended!! "
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| Quite a bit darker and less humorous than I had expected. Still, a solid heist tale featuring one of fantasy literature's most iconic pair of buddies, told in Leiber's masterful style with an eye for creating an engrossing atmosphere dripping with fa ...more | |
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| Conan encounters ancient alien wonders during a heist to pilfer a powerful magician's most precious treasure. | |
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| Fast paced orgy of sword & sorcery pulp. | |
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| I've put off reading Conan way too long, thinking it hadn't held up well after so many years, but it's time to remedy that! This was a boatload of fun. I'm surprised and enthralled by the quality of Howard's lyrical prose, the foreboding otherworldly ...more | |
“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― Books and You
― Books and You
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt
― The Salmon of Doubt
“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
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