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«Arbonne»! 🙌Love the Journey of Blaise, and the Villa Scene with Blaise and Rudel is heartbreaking! Cheers!

Lackey is from Oklahoma, a place where seperaition of church and state is more of a suggestion then a rule, her cynicism of preachers mixed up with politics is to be expected.😅

I did send you this one, didn't I? I *LOVE* this book & author! I', also a huge fan of many of her other DAW titles!

Very intriguing! After Electric Forest I'm VERY curious to try more Tanith Lee, especially since she has a lot of fantasy. Wild ending sounds about right lol. Really interesting discussion on their one, sounds like a very interesting debut!

Yes! Tanith Lee! The Birthgrave is raw in some parts, but it is bizarre, fascinating, and mesmerizing.

Slow reading for me as well. Need to spend some time on The Knight. 😬😅 -T

I managed to grab a copy of this earlier this year, for about 50 bucks. It's so nice to see a review for this because it is very obscure despite Quinn's other more prominent works. Thanks for the review :)

Hey Liam! I don't recall if that's a title I'd sent? @OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels is correct - it's very akin to the "Heralds of Valdemar". Many of Mercedes Lackey's series are formulaic - regardless of when they were written or with whom. "The Last Herald Mage Trilogy" was my intro to her work, and while I love her stuff, there is a lot of samey-ness. Mercedes Lackey is an LGBTq advocate, but *doesn't* make the subject matter overbearing.

It sounds generic enough for Mercedes Lackey that I think I'll have to skip this one. From what you describe here I recognize all the same building blocks from Heralds of Valdemar. Great breakdown!

I've been curious to see you read this one since it felt closer to S&S (from my point of view anyway, sounds like not so much the case lol) but I will say this one is VERY different from all her other works

I appreciate your thoughts here, Liam, as this one's on my shelf and I haven't heard anyone talk about it!

It was a slow reading week for me. I also wish I could pick some discipline I want to dedicate myself to because I switch it up all of the time and all of the ones I land on I wouldn't mind but I guess I'm too wishy-washy. I currently am thinking of focusing more on religious studies, especially the BoM of course because those are the "best books". Might have the most eternal value and I can read or study other things here or there. We'll see!

Fridge co-star is good stuff

Wolfe is without doubt my favorite speculative fiction author and I have been reading sci-fi for over sixty (60) years. Reading the Latros novel, and especially the Urth Series feels like entering a dream state.

If you like the Amber Series by Zelazny, then you should read the World of Tiers series by Philip Jose Farmer.

37 is pretty ancient

Grew up with these books. Of all the cities of Faërun, I feel a strong kinship with the people of Phlan. To this day, I still remember the passage where the demon had taken the shape of a bard to lure the people to their doom and everyone followed him. But when the procession arrived at the gates of Phlan, Tarl Desanea stood between them and the closed doors and made clear that no one would cross them. Very powerful and evocative writing imo.

How do you read so many books so fast dayum

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They should never have tried to stretch this out into a trilogy.

Obligatory comment* -T

Just realizing how far behind I am on your videos. 😅 -T

When you're done with Eaters of the Dead, you need to watch The 13th Warrior, if you haven't yet.

I've just revisited this old favourite as well. I really enjoyed EC's take on the central conflict - in another author's hands, the noble savages trope would surely have felt stale, but here it somehow works, and the humans aren't really demonised either. The fortuitous appearance of Arilyn's ancestor seemed a bit too contrived, though. Also, maybe it's just me but I can't make out at all what you're saying about "eldritch" around 3:33.

This seems written for today!

This sounds intriguing! Thanks for sharing

I love the Dark Sun setting but I DNF'd the series after this book. Great review and I agree completely.

It's a shame most academics have lost their creativity 😢. I think I remember you mentioning the Vikings fighting Mayans book before and it definitely sounds like an interesting one!

I remember this because I really disliked the main character.

Just finished I’ll Met in Lankhmar

Bummer, I thought this was a book about us

I'm in a very similar mood for likely very similar reasons. In fact I think I'm going to go back and even reread Lord of the Rings (not S&S but escapism and fantasy).

Pauli Kidd, and not a guy, though the book was published before it was known.

Does it say Sargon was a Babylonian or worshipped Ishtar or something? Also missed opportunity to show the Ishtar Gate sadge. Seems interesting at least!

Great review! I have had this on my TBR for a long time. I need to make some time to read it. I am a big fan of Abraham Merritt's writing.

My kind of video

I re read this every year at this time of year. Influenced my own work.

Here that guys go read sword and sorcery to cope with reality

You could tell? Really?

Rejoice, for we have Clark Ashton Smith & C. L. Moore rep! Huzzah!

Cool. I picked this up at my local used book store. Looking forward to it.

Oops, I thought this was older than 2004 haha

Ursula LeGuin's Earth Sea series? Great video.

Excellent review. Tim Bloom mentioned: Oh, stop.

I read Wilcox’ story in Old Moon Vol III. Love his style and language. I’m looking for more of his romantic grimdark work.

Well done without spoilers. I read a lot of Harrison as a kid, stuff like his "Stainless Steel Rat" series and his a bit more serious "Deathworld" series. He is big on action and comedy. SSR is very comedic and over the top.

Who is this Timaeus guy and what fool would ever have him in a livestream book discussion? My word!

14:08 It's true. You really have to read Nine Princes of Amber to get a feel for the world Zelazny created. Incidentally, that led me to reading my favorite yearly Halloween re-read, A Night in the Lonesome October. Which is not Swords and Sorcery at all, but it's a very charming dark fantasy tale about eldritch powers, those who aid them, and those who fight against them. And it's told by a dog. Lots of fun.

This is the best example of what happens when writer(s) who know what they're doing use Norse mythology and viking culture. Lots of leeway to work with, but I've always loved the way they brought Norse paganism to life in a way that was totally believable. A big influence on me and my series. It's been so long since I read it though-I wonder what the scene is you're thinking of as reminiscent of Burden to Bear!

I picked this up at Half Price a while ago. Not sure why - if it was the description or saw it referenced somewhere. Havent reas it yet as I think it is part of a series? Read a lot of Harrison a long time ago. Bill the Galactic Space hero is similar to Phules Company and kind of silly. Stainless Steel Rat series is kind of a heist, I think. West of Eden is about the dinosaurs evolved too and are the dominant species who bioengineer everything. I think they were dect reads but it was probably 30 years ago before high school.