Adam’s Comments (group member since May 05, 2024)

Adam’s comments from the Temecula Nerds & Words Book Club group.

Hey! Coming late to this. I read about 15 out of the 100. One of the books on the list is going to be my choice when it is my turn to pick. Im shocked to see a Drizzt DnD novel on the list - those things are pulpier than Conan. How the hell is Wizard of Earthsea not on there?

Thanks for these!

Right on. Consider me in your group!

Thank you for your interest! I was a professional screenwriter once upon a time. I have only screenplays, however what I am writing now is my first novel.

As a Tolkien junky, I do know that Tolkien was expressly against this idea, and that Middle Earth was its own thing, allegorical to nothing that was happening in the modern age. This was Tolkien's assertion. Yet, one can't help but see his WWI experience manifest in the parts of his books that concerned the subject of war. I think perhaps there is an innate allegory to all storytelling, yet I think perhaps there is a sub or alt category of "intentional allegory" such as the works of Orwell. I cannot tell if the allegory in my own work is intentional or not. I am definitely trying to write about power and the many ways it is abused by the worst of us, and certainly the abuses of power within my own work have modern day equivalents, yet I just think certain things are universal, and that psychopaths mastering heirarchies and making their way to the top of most of them and acting the tyrant once there, is something that has always been a problem for mankind and continues to be until today. It begs the question, are all fictional depictions of abuses of power allegorical to contemporary real-world abuses of power? I say intent is pretty important. It was Lucas's intent to make an allegory between the Viet Cong and the galactic rebellion.

Yes. Being wounded by a Brandybuck is very much not metal. The rest though...

How the fuck is the Witch King's death not on that list? A woman sticks a sword into your shadowy face after she slices the head off your flying serpent hell beast? C'mon.