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Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
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Of pastiche and John C. Hocking’s Conan and the Living Plague
These dead are unquiet...I don’t mind pastiche … which is I suppose a bit of a lukewarm way of saying I support it.Nonetheless it’s how I feel.
I’m on record as loving SSOC and Roy Thomas stories and even (gasp) some of the old Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp Conan stories. I’m not a purist, as long as we have unadulterated Howard somewhere in print I’m good with new stories and interpretatio
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"This guy is pretty much a douche but the book is still funny. I was going to give him two stars but I just remembered that he called motley crue "shit" so he gets only one star from me."
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“His essay “Epic Pooh,” originally published in 1978, skewered Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Richard Adams (author of Watership Down) for, among other perceived offenses, writing the equivalent of coddling, consolatory, nursery-room tales for grownups, stories that reinforced the paternalism of the establishment: I suppose I respond so antipathetically to Lewis and Tolkien because I find this sort of consolatory Christianity distasteful, a fundamentally misanthropic doctrine. … It is moderation which ruins Tolkien’s fantasy and causes it to fail as a genuine romance. … The Lord of the Rings is much more deep-rooted in its infantilism than a good many of the more obviously juvenile books it influenced. It is Winnie-the-Pooh posing as an epic (126–127).”
― Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
― Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
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