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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781595820761
ISBN number: 1595820760
Label: Dark Horse
Manufacturer: Dark Horse
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: August 15, 2007
Publishing house: Dark Horse
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In the second installment of this rousing series, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser journey from the ancient city of Lankhmar, searching for a little adventure and debauchery to ease their broken hearts. When a stranger challenges them to find and fight Death on the Bleak Shore, they battle demonic birds, living mountains, and evil monks on the way to their heroic fate. Fritz Leiber's witty prose, lively plots and superb characterizations stand the test of time.
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This is the short stories I wanted. The two characters, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, get to shine, as they survive adventure after adventure after adventure. The only reason I don't give the book a five star rating is that, while the details change, the stories seem to be the same. They get into trouble, they discover what the trouble is, they fight their way out of it. Sometimes they think their way out but mostly they fight.
Not sure if I should continue the books. How different can it get?
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This volume, perhaps more than any of the others in the Swords series, is essential reading. Not only does it contain the very first of Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories (The Jewels in the Forest), but it also contains some of his best (Thieves' House, Claws From the Night). The subsequent volume has what may be the best of the short pieces (Adept's Gambit), and the novel-length Swords of Lankhmar is probably my favorite of the series, but this volume is pivotal, and it's very consistent. For the best in swords & sorcery, look no further than Leiber.
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Leiber's Lankhmar stories are great fun, so it's a shame this Kindle version is unreadable.
Chapter numbers overprint body text, and chapter titles are invisible. Some chapters/stories run multiple paragraphs together into huge lumps of text.
This appears to have been converted from another format without having been checked on an actual Kindle. Buy this and you'll be throwing your money down the toilet. Unforgivable, and yet another example of why Amazon needs to impose some quality standards on Kindle editions.
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I bought book one and enjoyed it greatly. Book 2 seems to be a smattering of individual stories rather than a continuous storyline, which is ok if that's what you are planning on. It's simple, swords and magic Fantasy with no great epic cause to support nor any great moral issues to debate.
The stories are still quite good, but when compared with some of the other work on the market, this volume pales in comparison and doesn't deserve more than 3 stars. It's good, but not something that you are going to put aside Erikson or Wurts to make time for.
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After a self-imposed exile, our heroes; the legendary Farfhrd and Gray Mouser, are back to their old shenanigans in the sinful city of Lankhmar. Shortly after their return, they find themselves hypnotically drawn across Newhorn's Outer Sea to lands unknown, only to have to survive a perilous journey to again get back to Lankhmar; the closest thing they have to a home. Along with their other misadventures, they finally come to terms with the deaths of their true-loves.
As stated on the book's back-cover; Fritz Leiber shares the throne as a master of fantasy along with J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, and C. S. Lewis. In fact, I've heard that Lankhmar was the model for the very first Dungeon & Dragon games.
The Farhrd and The Gray Mouser tales are classic Sword & Sorcery. Leiber's prose and dialog have a whimsical, but almost Shakespearean feel, which lends humour to adventures that are nothing short of a good-time. The companionship between the Gray Mouser, a small thief and a former wizard's-apprentice, and Fafhrd, an almost 7 ft. tall barbarian, is endearing and reminiscent of the camaraderie between the best-friends of one's childhood. I even get a sense that there's a little "bohemian" influence (the lifestyle not the historic people) that makes these stories even more interesting.
I give Swords Against Death four stars, only because I found that, at times, the same prose and rhythm that makes the book so entertaining can also be a little monotonous. Still, Farfhrd and Gray Mouser are well-worth the read and make for a great afternoon-armchair-escape.
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