Tag: Fantasy
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Conrad’s Fate
Overview and Context This was, as one editorial review put it, a wild romp! Conrad’s Fate is a young adult fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones, published in 2005. It is the fifth chronological novel in the acclaimed Chrestomanci series, though it serves as a prequel to the events of The Magicians of Caprona and Read more
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The Skin Map
Well, this was not good. Not good at all. I’m not going to pan it and trash it, the author writes fairly well but this book was all over the (skin) map and was a real slog to get through. Remember, I’ve been through Life of Johnson and Decline and Fall so when I say Read more
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Conan: The Hour of the Dragon
Review: Super good read. Fast paced, sword and sorcery. Proper old 1930s pulp magazine fare. However… Robert E. Howard stood apart from his pulp contemporaries by an Aquilonian League. A mile. His characters are well developed and he created a whole world. Think about Middle Earth and Narnia (which came later). If you’re not white, Read more
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Review: What a neat little volume! A book of verse. Published in 1962 at the request of his publisher (Allen & Unwin). The poems were almost all adapted from Tolkien’s much earlier poems published in university journals, most having nothing to do with Tom Bombadil or even the LOTR franchise. Thanks to an editorial conceit Read more