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I’m going to suffer through this so that I can write an actual two star review, unlike the rest of you cowards!

What a boring book. This is way too intellectual for the content. Way to make something fun appear absolutely boring and academic.

I think I've found the link back to writing in some of the TRPG research - the Structuralist notion that writing, in its semiotic selection, makes a reader. Our author here refers to literary texts, but even technical texts can do this both in symbol selection and in leading inference. I link it with John Wick's analysis that page count indicates what your game is about.

Some historical, liberties, both in RPGs and in literature, make me glad for other histories in my library. But I'm not reading this one for history per se.