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“Don’t leave the world in the hands of the bastards.”

Jesus flexes on Adam and Eve. Show’s them how resistin’ Satan is done.

Milton retcon’s the Roman Christian Satan into the ancient Hebrew serpent.

Matt and Shane have a ‘Volo and Elminster’ banter dynamic going.

Yeah, so, feels like Fafhrd and the Mouser are pretty much just a couple of rapists in this one. Gross.

Yeah, so, feels like Fafhrd and the Mouser are pretty much just a couple of rapists in this one. Gross.

Fry does for the Greeks what Gaiman did for the Norse.

The characters are just one-dimensional mouthpieces for Herbert’s political, sexual and religious and rants.

By this stage in his career Herbert has lost the plot and is just writing creepy space porn.

This is what The Great Gatsby would have been if it wasn’t a good book. ‘Rich girls don’t marry poor boys’ and all that.

Frightening to think that so many lives were thrown away on the career whims of a few white men. Frightening, but not surprising.

A great read. This is History in the Edward Gibbon style.

Frightening to think that so many lives were thrown away on the career whims of a few white men. Frightening, but not surprising.

A great read. This is History in the Edward Gibbon style.

This is History in the Edward Gibbon vein: character-driven drama, with a sense of beginning, middle and end, packaged in an emotive and theatrical box that rests upon an underlying sense of a moral tragedy.

So, this is the one with the good Fanny. And Sense and Sensibility is the one with the evil Fanny.

The reason this historical novel won the Booker while others didn’t is because it has no plot, nothing happens, and it is essentially just hundreds of pages of conversations that never seem to go anywhere.

Wow. Lots of throw-away racist comments in this book. Wasn’t expecting that.

The more I get to know Tolkien, the less I like him.

Reading Howard refer to villains (and they are always villains) as ‘the Blacks’ page after page is just too jarring.

Book 1 is big-standard 80s romantic fantasy. Book 2 is a fantasy rip off if James Clavell’s Shogun. You’re not missing much by skipping it.

Sophistry and mental gymnastics to make an indefensible position seem reasonable. Apologetics at its finest. But ultimately unconvincing.

More militarist fantasy based on the straw-man fallacy that humanoid aliens are out there waiting to attack us so we should keep our military investment pumped and primed. All a hawkish contemporary metaphor of course, and a tediously sanctimonious one at that. But as an origin story for a b-grade space opera computer game, it's pretty good.

And because this 'god' is obviously the fictional creation of the author, (Moses? Or is such a figure as nebulous as 'Homer'?), then the author was a psychopath. A deranged cult that has lasted three millennia. Muhammad pulled the same scam.

And because this 'god' is obviously the fictional creation of the author, (Moses? Or is such a figure as nebulous as 'Homer'?), then the author was a psychopath. A deranged cult that has lasted three millennia. Muhammad pulled the same scam.

The 'god' of the Old Testament is clearly a psychopath. How can anyone take this drivel seriously?

Trump is, of course, the Dark Lord of this narrative, but Sanders, Comey and Putin are the unholy trinity who ushered in his ascendancy.