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John Grimes: Survey Service #1
The Road to the Rim
Ace Double H-29, published with ""The Lost Millennium", by Walt and Leigh Richmond.
Lieutenant John Grimes of the Federation Survey Service: fresh out of the Academy - and as green as they come.
Lieutenant John Grimes of the Federation Survey Service: fresh out of the Academy - and as green as they come.
117 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1967
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A. Bertram Chandler
358 books53 followersArthur Bertram Chandler (28 March 1912–6 June 1984) was an Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Paul T. Sherman, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M.
He was born in Aldershot, England. He was a merchant marine officer, sailing the world in everything from tramp steamers to troopships. He emigrated to Australia in 1956 and became an Australian citizen. He commanded various ships in the Australian and New Zealand merchant navies, and was the last master of the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne as the law required that it have an officer on board while it was laid up waiting to be towed to China to be broken up.
He was born in Aldershot, England. He was a merchant marine officer, sailing the world in everything from tramp steamers to troopships. He emigrated to Australia in 1956 and became an Australian citizen. He commanded various ships in the Australian and New Zealand merchant navies, and was the last master of the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne as the law required that it have an officer on board while it was laid up waiting to be towed to China to be broken up.
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April 22, 2021
Not perfect and a bit dated, but I nonetheless liked this a bit more than I thought I would. Bridges a gap between Hornblower stories and pulp sci-fi.
October 19, 2014
John Grimes Survey Service was recommended to me as being similar to Hornblower and Honor Harrington (which I love). It is classic pulp fiction that reads like Hornblower in space, crossed with 60's spy novels. Sounds exciting, but not quite my cup of tea. I think because there is an emphasis on an interplanetary playboy drinking brandy, smoking, and condescending and sexually harassing to women instead of on duty and honor. This took less than an hour for me to read so I'll read one more in case Ensign Grimes grows up a bit in the following novels but if he's still a douche in the second book I'll ditch the series.
August 22, 2019
At this point I've read a lot of older sci-fi, although I'm still relatively new to the pulpy stuff. This is by far the most dated sci-fi novel I've ever read. I know the author was a sailor and was going for that vibe, but I'm pretty sure smoking pipes on a spaceship would have come off as old fashioned even back when this was written in the 60's.
Anyway, I have mixed feelings about this book. The "romance" was as terrible as you'd expect, and it drove the plot in a way that really didn't work for me. There was also a strange lack of accountability for the three main characters. They make decisions that should have some seriously long-lasting consequences or implications, and they just don't.
I did like the "seafaring" aspect of this. And there was a decent amount of worldbuilding for such a short book. And I was entertained when reading, which is the most important thing.
Anyway, I have mixed feelings about this book. The "romance" was as terrible as you'd expect, and it drove the plot in a way that really didn't work for me. There was also a strange lack of accountability for the three main characters. They make decisions that should have some seriously long-lasting consequences or implications, and they just don't.
I did like the "seafaring" aspect of this. And there was a decent amount of worldbuilding for such a short book. And I was entertained when reading, which is the most important thing.
September 16, 2018
Read as part of an Ace Double--here's the relevant part of the review.
The Road to the Rim is more lastingly relevant, as it’s tied into the “John Grimes: Rim Worlds” series of books. This is the first of the stories by internal chronology, featuring an Ensign Grimes just graduated from the Federation Survey Service academy and shipping out to his first assignment.
As it happens, there are no military transports headed that way, so Grimes ships aboard a civilian merchantman, the Delta Orionis. While in transit, Grimes meets his first Rim Worlders, the disgruntled engineer Baxter, and the lovely purser Jane Pentecost. There’s some politics involved, as the Rim Worlds are independent of the Federation, but not allowed to have their own space navy because the Federation supposedly protects them. In reality, the neighboring Duchy of Waldegren regularly preys on Rim shipping in thinly veiled piracy.
The captain of the Delta Orionis warns Grimes against getting too close to Miss Pentecost as she is rumored to be working as a recruiter for the potential Rim Worlds Navy. But it’s the captain himself who decides to go rogue when the DO finds a ship that has just barely survived an encounter with pirates. Our captain knows that his ship is carrying weapons meant for the Survey Service, and has a plan for turning the crippled merchantman into a Q-ship and baiting the pirates into a trap.
Ensign Grimes quite rightly objects, and is placed in the brig so that his career will not be tainted. But after Jane gives him a pity lay, Grimes decides that he’s in love with her, and joins the Q-ship crew.
The good: Mr. Chandler, a long-time merchant mariner himself, really “gets” the sea-going mindset and “space as an ocean” setting. There’s considerable suspense and some good action scenes. This story explains where Grimes gets his “Liberty Hall” catchphrase from.
The less good: The future depicted is kind of sexist, the few female military officers Grimes has met are dismissed as “equine” and on the Delta Orionis the female crewmembers work in accounting and entertainment. There’s prejudice against the psychic “radio” operators for being “spooky,” which is never called out in the story as a bad thing.
The ugly: Grimes persistently bugs Jane for more sex, refusing to take “no”, “hell no” and “absolutely not” as answers, even when she gives reasonable reasons why she won’t. Only when Grimes learns Miss Pentecost is now going steady with someone who outranks him does he finally desist. (He and the other man get a chuckle out of the situation.)
Recommended to fans of Mr. Chandler’s other work who can forgive the sexual harassment subplot.
The Road to the Rim is more lastingly relevant, as it’s tied into the “John Grimes: Rim Worlds” series of books. This is the first of the stories by internal chronology, featuring an Ensign Grimes just graduated from the Federation Survey Service academy and shipping out to his first assignment.
As it happens, there are no military transports headed that way, so Grimes ships aboard a civilian merchantman, the Delta Orionis. While in transit, Grimes meets his first Rim Worlders, the disgruntled engineer Baxter, and the lovely purser Jane Pentecost. There’s some politics involved, as the Rim Worlds are independent of the Federation, but not allowed to have their own space navy because the Federation supposedly protects them. In reality, the neighboring Duchy of Waldegren regularly preys on Rim shipping in thinly veiled piracy.
The captain of the Delta Orionis warns Grimes against getting too close to Miss Pentecost as she is rumored to be working as a recruiter for the potential Rim Worlds Navy. But it’s the captain himself who decides to go rogue when the DO finds a ship that has just barely survived an encounter with pirates. Our captain knows that his ship is carrying weapons meant for the Survey Service, and has a plan for turning the crippled merchantman into a Q-ship and baiting the pirates into a trap.
Ensign Grimes quite rightly objects, and is placed in the brig so that his career will not be tainted. But after Jane gives him a pity lay, Grimes decides that he’s in love with her, and joins the Q-ship crew.
The good: Mr. Chandler, a long-time merchant mariner himself, really “gets” the sea-going mindset and “space as an ocean” setting. There’s considerable suspense and some good action scenes. This story explains where Grimes gets his “Liberty Hall” catchphrase from.
The less good: The future depicted is kind of sexist, the few female military officers Grimes has met are dismissed as “equine” and on the Delta Orionis the female crewmembers work in accounting and entertainment. There’s prejudice against the psychic “radio” operators for being “spooky,” which is never called out in the story as a bad thing.
The ugly: Grimes persistently bugs Jane for more sex, refusing to take “no”, “hell no” and “absolutely not” as answers, even when she gives reasonable reasons why she won’t. Only when Grimes learns Miss Pentecost is now going steady with someone who outranks him does he finally desist. (He and the other man get a chuckle out of the situation.)
Recommended to fans of Mr. Chandler’s other work who can forgive the sexual harassment subplot.
July 8, 2014
Chandler takes us back to the beginning of John Grimes' career when he was working for the Survey Service. Now he has transferred to the Merchant Navy and is not only immediately at odds with the Captain but feels out of place in a Service which seems to have a different perspective on the political set-up of the human worlds. He makes friends with the purser, Jane, who hails from the Rim worlds, the outlying planets toward the edge of the galaxy.
Grimes' view, and obviously his career, changes when a ship is raided by pirates, and the Captain - whose lover was on board - is thirsting for revenge. They are able to plunder the stores of the ransacked ship and discover that the pirates plant a homing beacon on the ship within its cargo, which makes it easy to find and loot in space. Despite Grimes' reluctance to bend the regulations he follows his heart and helps the crew to deliver justice to the pirate ship.
Chandler is the first to admit that his tales are seafaring adventures transferred to an interstellar format, although he is doing himself a disservice there since they are rather more than that, and make interesting points about politics, power and the abuse of it.
Chandler is also Australian, and there are no doubt parallels between the culture of the Rim Worlds and his own country. A small dose of endemic sexism is provided in the shape of the Captain's gallery of heavenly beauties that he keeps in his cabin as evidence of his 'one in every port' philosophy. Paradoxically, this in contrast to Chandler's rendering of Jane as an independent and feisty individual and - surprisingly for the time - not at all stupid.
Extrapolation was not a Chandler strongpoint, though to be fair with the subject matter he seldom needed it, although one does wonder whether many writers (Chandler is not alone) would really have thought that smoking in the enclosed environment of a spaceship was really a good idea.
Grimes' view, and obviously his career, changes when a ship is raided by pirates, and the Captain - whose lover was on board - is thirsting for revenge. They are able to plunder the stores of the ransacked ship and discover that the pirates plant a homing beacon on the ship within its cargo, which makes it easy to find and loot in space. Despite Grimes' reluctance to bend the regulations he follows his heart and helps the crew to deliver justice to the pirate ship.
Chandler is the first to admit that his tales are seafaring adventures transferred to an interstellar format, although he is doing himself a disservice there since they are rather more than that, and make interesting points about politics, power and the abuse of it.
Chandler is also Australian, and there are no doubt parallels between the culture of the Rim Worlds and his own country. A small dose of endemic sexism is provided in the shape of the Captain's gallery of heavenly beauties that he keeps in his cabin as evidence of his 'one in every port' philosophy. Paradoxically, this in contrast to Chandler's rendering of Jane as an independent and feisty individual and - surprisingly for the time - not at all stupid.
Extrapolation was not a Chandler strongpoint, though to be fair with the subject matter he seldom needed it, although one does wonder whether many writers (Chandler is not alone) would really have thought that smoking in the enclosed environment of a spaceship was really a good idea.
June 27, 2015
Ensign grimes is a passenger on the way to Lindisfarne base when a distress call is received. Pirates! The civilian captain wants to pursue them--a foolhardy and unsanctioned quest. Grimes' military career could be very short no matter what he does! The Horatio Hornblower of space is off and running. I am definitely on to sequels!
May 22, 2020
I need to preface this review by saying that I understand all too well that this is _not_ the book a person should read to get into the John Grimes novels of A. Bertram Chandler. Although I see that Goodreads has declared this the first book in the series, it actually is not: it's the first book in terms of the internal chronology of the John Grimes universe, but was actually written and published after several "later" novels in the universe had been written and read by fans.
The reason I started with this book is because I own the collected series in the set of volumes published by the Science Fiction Book Club back in the early 2000s, and that series starts here. So readers, like myself, who wanted to read these book could be forgiven for giving up after (or partway) through this short novel. To put it analogically to a series I'm much more familiar with: if the SFBC decided to publish a series of omnibus volumes of Marion Zimmer Bradley's _Darkover_ works, that series would start with _Darkover Landfall_...and similar results would ensue. That novel is barely a "novel" at all, and certainly nothing that would interest anyone except diehard fans of the series.
I believe that Chandler wrote this because fans wanted to know how the character they loved, John Grimes, got his start on the "road to the Rim"worlds. Even as a reader unfamiliar with the series, I can see all sorts of retrospective "hints" about where these novels are heading based on this work: the politics Chandler sets up between the "Federation" and other portions of the galaxy, the attitude of the Rimworlders to the benign (yet total) control and neglect the Federation shows toward depredations of the Rim by other political entities, and even the various technical innovations that allow intergalactic travel in Chandler's universe (the Mannschen Drive and the psionic "radio" service that allow FTL travel and instant communication across galactic distances, respectively).
However, the "plot" of this novel is practically nonexistent (it's a simple tale of revenge upon pirates), the characters are relatively flat (I'm sure that some, like Grimes and Jane Penecost are more fully developed in "later" works), and the action is _very_ slow at the beginning. Also, like much sf published in the 1960s the sexual relationship between Grimes and Pentecost is adolescent (and, frankly, embarrassing) at best, and cliched and overwrought at worst.
On the good side, Chandler's descriptions of the "warped continuum" produced by the Mannschen Drive are intriguingly eerie (there's a hint of Lovecraft in these descriptions, the "falling into the dark dimensions" and the psychological effect people experience while dissociated from time), and the short scene between the Drive Engineer Wolverton and Grimes has interesting overtones from _Hamlet_. But these are minor (and probably idiosyncratic) interests of my own.
This is a book to come back to once you've read the works published by Chandler earlier. I'm not sure I'll do that, but maybe I'll like the later works so much that I'll be intrigued to come back with fuller knowledge of the universe and characters than I currently possess.
The reason I started with this book is because I own the collected series in the set of volumes published by the Science Fiction Book Club back in the early 2000s, and that series starts here. So readers, like myself, who wanted to read these book could be forgiven for giving up after (or partway) through this short novel. To put it analogically to a series I'm much more familiar with: if the SFBC decided to publish a series of omnibus volumes of Marion Zimmer Bradley's _Darkover_ works, that series would start with _Darkover Landfall_...and similar results would ensue. That novel is barely a "novel" at all, and certainly nothing that would interest anyone except diehard fans of the series.
I believe that Chandler wrote this because fans wanted to know how the character they loved, John Grimes, got his start on the "road to the Rim"worlds. Even as a reader unfamiliar with the series, I can see all sorts of retrospective "hints" about where these novels are heading based on this work: the politics Chandler sets up between the "Federation" and other portions of the galaxy, the attitude of the Rimworlders to the benign (yet total) control and neglect the Federation shows toward depredations of the Rim by other political entities, and even the various technical innovations that allow intergalactic travel in Chandler's universe (the Mannschen Drive and the psionic "radio" service that allow FTL travel and instant communication across galactic distances, respectively).
However, the "plot" of this novel is practically nonexistent (it's a simple tale of revenge upon pirates), the characters are relatively flat (I'm sure that some, like Grimes and Jane Penecost are more fully developed in "later" works), and the action is _very_ slow at the beginning. Also, like much sf published in the 1960s the sexual relationship between Grimes and Pentecost is adolescent (and, frankly, embarrassing) at best, and cliched and overwrought at worst.
On the good side, Chandler's descriptions of the "warped continuum" produced by the Mannschen Drive are intriguingly eerie (there's a hint of Lovecraft in these descriptions, the "falling into the dark dimensions" and the psychological effect people experience while dissociated from time), and the short scene between the Drive Engineer Wolverton and Grimes has interesting overtones from _Hamlet_. But these are minor (and probably idiosyncratic) interests of my own.
This is a book to come back to once you've read the works published by Chandler earlier. I'm not sure I'll do that, but maybe I'll like the later works so much that I'll be intrigued to come back with fuller knowledge of the universe and characters than I currently possess.
July 12, 2023
Ensign John Grimes is commencing his career in the Federation Survey Service as a passenger en route to his first post when the ship he is travelling on, the Delta Orionis, is called upon to rescue a ship attacked by pirates from Waldegren. the Epsilon Sextans. The pirated vessel was badly damaged and escaped only by a chance firing of its interstellar Manschenn Drive. Feeling a bit embittered Captain Craven of the Delta Orionis decides to patch up the Epsilon Sextans, add a few cannon and use the special cargo on board to lure the pirates back at it. Grimes is dragooned into assisting as he has had his head turned by a pretty purser from the Rim Worlds. The bulk of this long novella from A. Bertram Chandler is about Grimes and the purser going their separate ways and the scheme to sucker in the pirates. Pretty thin stuff. Originally a two-part serial in IF it was eventually half of an Ace double.
October 12, 2025
“The Road to the Rim”, first in the 'John Grimes: Survey Service', introduces an a Lieutenant straight out of the Federation Survey Service Academy.
It mostly comes across as YA, though there are one or two more adult moments.
Even though it is set in the future it is very much rooted in the 1960s and our hero spends a lot of his times pursuing the pleasures of the flesh.
It reads quite well but wasn't going anywhere until I came across the following:-
“He heard her murmur, in an odd, sardonic whisper, "wotthehell, wotthehell," and then, "toujours gai."”
And that brought me down memory lane for quite a while (see 'Archie and Mehitabel')
Considering all the things that the author might have predicted I was surprised to see smoking alive and well in the future. Personally, as a committed smoker, I wouldn't complain, but I can't see it coming to pass.
3 Stars.
It mostly comes across as YA, though there are one or two more adult moments.
Even though it is set in the future it is very much rooted in the 1960s and our hero spends a lot of his times pursuing the pleasures of the flesh.
It reads quite well but wasn't going anywhere until I came across the following:-
“He heard her murmur, in an odd, sardonic whisper, "wotthehell, wotthehell," and then, "toujours gai."”
And that brought me down memory lane for quite a while (see 'Archie and Mehitabel')
Considering all the things that the author might have predicted I was surprised to see smoking alive and well in the future. Personally, as a committed smoker, I wouldn't complain, but I can't see it coming to pass.
3 Stars.
September 2, 2021
A good start to what will hopefully be a good military-ish sci-fi series. John Grimes has the potential to be a good character, but in this book, he is not that likable. I think that is done on purpose because he is young and untested. He thinks he's the best because he went to a fancy academy and is in the Survey Service. I am hoping that he matures significantly as the series continues because he is annoying as he is.
The only other thing that was annoying was the book is pretty dated, especially when it comes to female characters. I didn't like how all the males on the ship wanted to treat Jane as an object instead of an employee and officer on a spaceship. Overall 3 out of 5 stars.
The only other thing that was annoying was the book is pretty dated, especially when it comes to female characters. I didn't like how all the males on the ship wanted to treat Jane as an object instead of an employee and officer on a spaceship. Overall 3 out of 5 stars.
April 17, 2019
An Ace Double Novel (H-29) bound with Walt & Leigh Richmond's "The Lost Millennium". Space opera conceived as analogous to the navy. The author was an officer in the Australian navy. Fast paced and exciting.
December 3, 2020
Comparisons to Horatio Hornblower are reasonable as this feels like a classic seafaring novel but set in space. The tech and dialogue feel rather contemporary for a novel published in 1960. A fun little ride.
January 9, 2021
A bit too juvenile and stereotypic for me: Immature boy meets girl and has an adventure. While the cover didn't reflect this, this novel reminded me of those with sexy covers, and it was published in 1967.
May 15, 2017
Feeling the need for some light science fiction for a break. Reminiscent of Horatio Hornblower series only this one set among the stars.
October 11, 2017
I liked it enough to read the next one.
April 9, 2022
I don’t remember liking it much.
December 2, 2023
It was OK, good enough that I'll read the next one, to give the series a chance.
March 19, 2017
I have been a fan of Chandler's work for a few years now. His stuff is usually short but so realistic that it's a shame he doesn't get more attention. I have read several of the Grimes books, but this is my first time reading these in order. I also will read the Rim World series, basically reading everything by Chandler.
March 13, 2011
Green Lieutenant, Pirates and a Damsel in distress
This is a classic pulp fiction about young spacer John Grimes fresh out of the academy. He is confronted with reality on his first trip. He meets peoples from the Rim Worlds that are feed up with the lack of support and protection from the core worlds against pirates and opportunistic warlords. When they meet up with another trader who just suffered a pirate attack from the Waldegrenese he should follow regulations and wait on military assistance but that is hard to do with a damsel in distress.
The characters are more than a bit two-dimensional and archetypical but it was good fun reading. The ingenuity and pioneer spirit of the Rim world rebels are expected and reminds me of other patriotic stories. Another thing that differs from the norm is damsel in distress love story. I think this story survived the times pretty well.
This is also a good example of a common trope in science fiction – the American revolution. The new world/Rim secedes from the old world. It is about to happen in the near future here and guess on whose side John Grimes is going to be.
I am very happy I bought this omnibus from Baen, two more are scheduled for this year First Command (August) and Galactic Courier (December) I am sure to get.
This is a classic pulp fiction about young spacer John Grimes fresh out of the academy. He is confronted with reality on his first trip. He meets peoples from the Rim Worlds that are feed up with the lack of support and protection from the core worlds against pirates and opportunistic warlords. When they meet up with another trader who just suffered a pirate attack from the Waldegrenese he should follow regulations and wait on military assistance but that is hard to do with a damsel in distress.
The characters are more than a bit two-dimensional and archetypical but it was good fun reading. The ingenuity and pioneer spirit of the Rim world rebels are expected and reminds me of other patriotic stories. Another thing that differs from the norm is damsel in distress love story. I think this story survived the times pretty well.
This is also a good example of a common trope in science fiction – the American revolution. The new world/Rim secedes from the old world. It is about to happen in the near future here and guess on whose side John Grimes is going to be.
I am very happy I bought this omnibus from Baen, two more are scheduled for this year First Command (August) and Galactic Courier (December) I am sure to get.
October 16, 2013
This book, The Road To The Rim", is the first omnibus in a series of books about John Grimes by A. Bertram Chandler. I have read many of the novels and short stories about John Grimes but many are hard to find and long out of print. With these collections I will finally be able to read them all. This first omnibus contains 4 stories about Grimes. They are "The Road To The Rim", "To Prime The Pump", "The Hard Way Up" and "The Broken Cycle". Each story is very entertaining and shows how Grimes develops in his career in the Federation Survey Service, the space fleet of the Federation. This is classic Space Opera and very entertaining. It is not for children however. I would rate it as PG!13. A must read for fans of Grimes and A. Bertram Chandler.
December 31, 2021
Eine klassische Space Opera, die sich in die Tradition von C.S. Foresters Hornblower Erzählung stellt. Bertram Chandler reiht den großen Seefahrer in die Reihe von John Grimes Vorfahren ein, und wie sein Urahn lernt der junge Grimes sein Metier von der Pike und geht in diesem ersten Band als Fähnrich auf seine erste große Reise. Und wie sein Vorbild gerät er umgehend in haarsträubende und halsbrecherische Verwicklungen und Abenteurer. Kurzweilig und unterhaltsam.
August 22, 2014
Uma narrativa em que o factor FC mais parece acidental que outra coisa. Tirem Grimes do espaço e metam-no num qualquer oceano terreste e continuaria tudo como se nada fosse, sem grandes alterações de conteúdo.
Well... ok... há que se justo, ocasionalmente mostra momentos de FC mais profunda... Esperar que este aumentem no volume seguinte...
Well... ok... há que se justo, ocasionalmente mostra momentos de FC mais profunda... Esperar que este aumentem no volume seguinte...
January 10, 2013
I wanted to give this 5 stars but the love interest element bothered me. Not that it was mushy it was just a bit odd and rubbed me the wrong way. However, overall the book was a delight to read of old-timey SF per Bertram Chandler. Recommended if you can find it.
April 2, 2013
I think I had read this book many years ago - at least it seemed fairly familiar. It would have been quite racey for the time, I think. The plot has been described by other reviewers - I liked it enough to decide to read the other books in the series.
January 23, 2014
For a sci-fi book written in the 60's this was pretty darn entertaining! I'd recommend it for someone wanting an easy read that won't take very long - characters are great; now I have to find the other Grimes novels that Chandler wrote!! :)
September 25, 2014
The Chamdler books are short and sweet--old school SciFi with outdated (but pretty forward thinking for the time) tech and straight-forward action-based plots. These are all about the main character, an inexperienced young ensign, learning a thing or two and not just about ray guns.
May 16, 2019
Ensign Grimes on his way to first ship, travelling on a merchant ship, gets sidetracked into a dubious action and wins the day and ends up on probation on a Survey Ship. A good starting story that has me reaching for the next book.
April 3, 2017
Na "conovou knížku" velmi dobrý. Hezky se to četlo, odsýpalo to, postavy nebyly úplně mimo, zkrátka příjemná oddechovka.
(Conová knížka = kniha, kterou jsem dostala, nevím jak, nevím kde, seděla na polici a čekala, jestli se na ni usměje štěstí.)
(Conová knížka = kniha, kterou jsem dostala, nevím jak, nevím kde, seděla na polici a čekala, jestli se na ni usměje štěstí.)
March 3, 2014
This book was just okay. I'd like to give it a 3.5, but the rating system doesn't allow partial stars and I don't think it deserves a full four.
May 25, 2016
Very of its time in it's treatment of women so if you can get past wanting to punch the main character in the face (Repeatedly. With a brick.) it's a alright way to spend an hour or two.
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