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Loading... The Knight and Knave of Swords (Saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Bk. 7) (original 1988; edition 1990)by Fritz Leiber (Author)
Work InformationThe Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber (1988)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  stubooks | Apr 4, 2024 |   Although it lacked the verve of the adventures from all of the previous stories, there is a kind of bravery here, to write a closing book that also somehow avoids answering everything. This does feel like the ending that these characters would get to; it feels like a natural progression even if it's a departure from the established prose. And although the stories lack the same kind of adventure we'd come to expect, it's always clear we're in the hands of a playful and accomplished writer; ever paragraph is interesting and well-written. The prose compels you as much as the adventure might have. (I rescind my previous advice; it would be fascinating to read this book and then comb through the other adventures... knowing where they're going but still enjoying how they get there.) (  ) JasonMehmel | Feb 9, 2024 |  ) Je9 | Aug 10, 2021 | )1  Jon_Hansen | Apr 24, 2017 | Life is finite. As Aldous Huxley said, "Time Must Have a Stop." (That reminds me, I ought to add in all my Huxley, and Anthony Burgess, and other fun authors to LT some day or other.) (  ) Lyndatrue | Dec 8, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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The final book in the seminal sword and sorcery series featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser from the Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. The highly regarded British horror author Ramsey Campbell called Fritz Leiber "the greatest living writer of supernatural horror fiction." Drawing many of his own themes from the works of Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually having coined the term sword and sorcery that would describe the subgenre he would more than help create. While The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Grey Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one than Tolkien's. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon's grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber's fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization's corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. No library descriptions found. |
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Finally finished the whole series of seven books.
I'm flat out remembering the earlier stories from the start of the series, and unlike a lot of the reviewers, I wasn't so enamoured by those earlier books that I have to express my disappointment with this book.
It was fine. All the related stories are based in the Rime Isles, where the majority of the Ice Magic book occurred. The heroes are older and settled and aren't really embarking on random adventures at a drop of the hat like earlier books.
Still seems to be a lot of random actions taken by many characters - some needless dredging up of characters from earlier books, and yes, an obsession with sex that is described in more detail and now has the feel of unfaithful dirty old men, rather than being young commitment-avoiding womanisers that they were in earlier stories.
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