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Quick Review: The Blind Owl

This is just sick. Looked when I saw on Goodreads that a friend had read and liked it and the description stating that it’s about a young man drifting into madness after losing his lover and depicting a bleak view of the human condition got me interested, striking close to home. However, it was not […]

Quick Review: The Thief of Fate

Again, without having played the game, I’m making assumptions, but if The Destiny Knight struck me as having failed to make proper use of the source material, in this case the impression was that the source material couldn’t be put together in book form, and even less so in a novella, offering too much breadth […]

Quick Review: The Destiny Knight

If the previous book managed to make what was likely close to the most from the limited source material, the short length being justified by the need to avoid overstaying its welcome, now I must say that I’d have liked to read the book The Destiny Knight could have been if it’d have fully exploited […]

Quick Review: The Bard’s Tale

In terms of length, maybe all three novelizations put together would count as one book, so counting each of them as a book read again feels rather like cheating. However, while I haven’t played the game to be certain, as far as I know it’s limited in the expected ways by both the hardware capabilities […]

Quick Review: Unde nu-i cap, vai de popoare (Where There’s No Head, Woe to the Peoples)

This is a collection of texts from the Starea Natiei (State of the Nation) show, and I rather added it to get free shipping for the other books ordered, though supporting a rather good show and maybe the only remaining Leftist TV show host around here was a nice bonus. The texts are from five […]