Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*’s Reviews > Saevus Corax Captures the Castle > Status Update

I feel you on the reading slump. I was reading what for me is a lot of books regularly until this month. Though I still have other avenues of reading (I like fanfiction, and read many that are the same length as novels) I've been frustrated trying to find the right book for my current mood, but I keep picking up good books that will speak to me in once I'm in a different mood. Can't stay with them.

What is it you like best about Corax? I've never heard of it.

XX wrote: "What is it you like best about Corax? I've never heard of it."

Let me illustrate with this novel's opening: "The other day, for want of anything better to do, I tried to figure out how many people I've killed over the course of my life so far. I came up with a toal of eighty-six. That surprised me.

A note on methodology. I'm taking here about people I've killed with my own hands, not the rather large number for whose deaths I could arguably be held morally responsible. Also excluded are those -- twenty-seven, give or take -- whose deaths I've ordered at the hands of others. If you count them in as well, we get a bottom line of one hundred and thirteen. Either way, that's a lot.

Bear in mind that I'm not and never have been a professional soldier. In my defence, I think I can honestly say I've never killed anyone out of malice, spite, idealism, revenge, for financial gain or just for the sheer hell of it. All those homicides were, as far as I'm concerned, justified: it was them or me. Either directly, because they were coming at me with a weapon, or indirectly, because they were trying to catch me or prevent me from escaping, or they knew something about me I daren't let anyone find out; not my fault, because I didn't start it. I've never started anything in my entire life (well, hardly ever) and all I ask is to be left in peace."

A liar, businessman, robber of the dead, philosopher, friend, playwright. Saevus Corax is my boy.