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What do you think of the adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser?

>> No.6845991

bomp

>> No.6846001

It's good.

>> No.6846620

good

>> No.6847158

much better than Tolkien. as i like to tell people, "If Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser ever met Aragorn, they'd steal his horse."

i am amazed at how often the two go after young women. very young women. okay, girls. in the seventh book, they're both being followed around by their own personal coterie of prepubescent girls.

>> No.6847194

>>6847158
My grandmother was born in the forties and married when she was 15. She once tried to set me up with a 13-year-old girl when I was in my early 20s. Things were not always as they were now.

>> No.6848325

>>6847194
did she encourage you to have half a dozen of them?

also, i'd really like to see you try that line on a cop.

>> No.6850232
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6850232

Leiber is great. He's like Howard, but more polished and expands his repertoire (and the genre) considerably.

>> No.6850273

>>6850232
Based pulpbro returns.

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6851612

>>6850273
Hey there. I know, same old pic, but those four White Wolf paperbacks stuffed up there have all the F & GM stories in them. They did a fifth volume where Robin Wayne Bailey tried to write like Leiber (Swords Against the Shadowland) but I didn't get much from it. If you like Lankhmar, better to hunt up some Clark Ashton Smith, who was his other big influence.

Also if you like Lovecraft but wish his protagonists kicked more ass and went insane and wet their pants a bit less, try Lumley some time.

>> No.6851733

>>6851612
Who are some lesser known Sword and Sorcery authors worth looking into?

>> No.6852416

>>6851733
Jack Vance's Lyonesse Trilogy (fairy rape)

Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword (elves, the way the Scandinavians know them)

Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion books (dude is reincarnated as a hero in dozens of different situations, barely remembering the other times)

Michael Shea, Nifft the Lean (hero goes to Hell and then a demonic subworld, has fun)

>> No.6852446

>>6852416
> Michael Shea, Nifft the Lean (hero goes to Hell and then a demonic subworld, has fun)
I think that's the sequel, the Mines of Behemoth. Or it might've been in Nifft the Lean too, I only remember well one of the stories in there...

>> No.6852535

Leiber achieved the most realistic depiction of male friendship in literature.
Prove me wrong