Monthly Archives: June 2008

Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

By terje | Published: June 9, 2008
2006 527 pages. (This review is based on a comment I wrote on the review of The Blade Itself. It contains NO SPOILERS! The “more” thing is only there to soothe any spoilerphobics who might happen to read this.)
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Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber

By terje | Published: June 9, 2008
(If this isn’t my best review, please bear over with me; it’s been over two months since I read this book.) 2001 (1970, 1962, 1970). 165 pages. “Induction” (2 pages) “The Snow Women” (74 pages) “The Unholy Grail” (27 pages) “Ill Met in Lankhmar” (62 pages) Swords and Deviltry is the first collection of short stories in the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks series’ [...]
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Status report, Western Europe ca 700CE

By terje | Published: June 8, 2008
“Culturally Latin Christendom, like a ruined family that could no longer maintain its old dwelling, came to live in a few rooms in the cellar.” — F.B. Artz, as quoted in Torbjørn L. Knutsen’s A History of International Relations Theory, p. 22.
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The impressiveness of detail

By terje | Published: June 8, 2008
On the currently newest Order of the Stick page, in the very first panel, do you see what it is? You’re completely right; Lord Kubota stands there reading one of the books from the DnD 4th Edition core rulebook set, which he’s obviously ordered from Amazon. It’s a small thing, I know, but it still warms my [...]
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Inheritance

By terje | Published: June 7, 2008
“The nineteenth century’s legacy to the twentieth century’s social scientists resembles an old house inherited from a rich aunt: worn, overdecorated, cluttered, but probably salvageable.” — Charles Tilly, as quoted in Torbjørn L. Knutsen’s A History of International Relations Theory.
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The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

By terje | Published: June 1, 2008
The Sword Itself by Joe Abercrombie 2006 527 pages The Union is about to come under assault. In the south the Gurkish are arming for war; to the north the Northmen have been united under the brutal King Bethod; even further to the north the Shanka are massing; and in the union’s heart, the Agriont, the castle area of [...]
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