The Joy of Erudition’s Reviews > Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu > Status Update
The Joy of Erudition
is 9% done
The beginning exposition has been very boring and hard to get through. The author also chose not to use Lando's name at all for the first 3 pages, only calling him "the young gambler", until finally another character calls him by name, as if we don't already know who we're reading about. Plus, the story is written from Lando's point of view, and he knows what his own name is, so why pretend it's a mystery?
— Oct 12, 2025 08:55PM
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The Joy of Erudition
is 46% done
"Came the dawn, with a full night's rest under his stylish if somewhat wrinkled satyn semiformal cummerbund..."
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"He himself had tossed and turned, sweating into the fancy and expensive synsilk bedroll he’d spread under the common-room gaming table, and finally achieving an unrestful semiconsciousness from which the robot had awakened him, stiff and groggy."
Not what I'd call "a full night's rest".
— Nov 29, 2025 08:13PM
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"He himself had tossed and turned, sweating into the fancy and expensive synsilk bedroll he’d spread under the common-room gaming table, and finally achieving an unrestful semiconsciousness from which the robot had awakened him, stiff and groggy."
Not what I'd call "a full night's rest".
The Joy of Erudition
is 34% done
The dialogue and characterisation is so corny, I'd think this was written for kids, if not for the copious smoking, drinking, and gambling, not to mention a SWAT team breaking Lando's door down and beating him up before taking him into custody.
— Oct 29, 2025 10:09PM
The Joy of Erudition
is 27% done
I had heard these were bad, but I was hoping it was just a case of outlandish plots, which would have been the "good" kind of bad. I need to lower my expectations for this one.
One interesting thing is that we have what they're calling a sorcerer showing up here, appearing in a puff of smoke. Granted, Darth Vader was called a sorcerer in the first movie, but here there hasn't been a single mention of the Force.
— Oct 21, 2025 10:37PM
One interesting thing is that we have what they're calling a sorcerer showing up here, appearing in a puff of smoke. Granted, Darth Vader was called a sorcerer in the first movie, but here there hasn't been a single mention of the Force.
