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Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
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Among the Living, Anthrax
Not nearly enough Anthrax on the blog. Let's change that this Metal Friday.
I don't listen to a whole lot of this band these days, but back in the late 80s/early 90s they were very heavy in my rotation. "Among the Living" hit a sweet spot. Right in the midst of the thrash era Stephen King released the uncut The Stand. Which we all read, and discussed. And wondered if we'd survive the apocalypse. No
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This is a very comprehensive history of the sword and sorcery subgenre and its influence on music, movies, television series, role-playing games and video games and counter-culture. There is much information for th" Read more of this review » |
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Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (Game Histories)
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“His essay “Epic Pooh,” originally published in 1978, skewered Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Richard Adams (author of Watership Down) for, among other perceived offenses, writing the equivalent of coddling, consolatory, nursery-room tales for grownups, stories that reinforced the paternalism of the establishment: I suppose I respond so antipathetically to Lewis and Tolkien because I find this sort of consolatory Christianity distasteful, a fundamentally misanthropic doctrine. … It is moderation which ruins Tolkien’s fantasy and causes it to fail as a genuine romance. … The Lord of the Rings is much more deep-rooted in its infantilism than a good many of the more obviously juvenile books it influenced. It is Winnie-the-Pooh posing as an epic (126–127).”
― Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
― Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
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