I’m having a hard time motivating myself to finish Faery Tales by Raymond E. Feist. I’ve read over a hundred pages and I’m still waiting for the end of the introduction. Too much filler material, more editing! Instead, I’ve started to read a short story collection written for the roleplaying game Changeling: The Dreaming given to me by one of my players who wants to run a Changeling campaign. I’m having difficulties thinking up a character, not knowing what kind of stories to expect. I’ve liked the first two stories in The Splendour Falls by Erin E. Kelly (ed.) and I’m looking forward to reading the rest of it. Quite unlike the Faery Tale book...
Faery Tales by Raymond E. Feist
The Splendour Falls by Erin E. Kelly
At the moment there is but one review of the book on Amazon ¹ basically saying that too many of the stories in here are lousy. We’ll see how it goes. The review also suggested to get books by Charles De Lint. I see lots of his books available on BookMooch, so that’s what I’ll do.
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Did I mention did I never read the anthology I gave you completely? ;)
But I think it’s okay for some stories to be okay in an anthology, some will always be bad, some okay and some good... and given that this one aims at opened the world of Changeling to as many new players as possible, you’ll most probably have the most success with a shotgun approach :D
And I think some people tend to forget that this is entertainment in the end, not high literature - go read Kafka if you’re on that end of the scale :-P I expect gaming fiction to entertain me, get the world across and for god’s sake don’t read like somebodies gaming sessions 😄
– madalex 2007-07-14 15:46 UTC