On my last trip to the US, I decided to finally sit down and read a classic in the fantasy genre, Fritz Leiber’s Lahnkmar series with Fafhd and the Gray Mouser. I picked up the first volume, a compilation of sorts I think, and gave it a read.
Overall it took a while for me to get into it. I persevered and near the end it really started moving. I’m looking forward to more adventures of this famous duo. I’m kind of curious what other gaps I have in the “classics” of the fantasy and science fiction genres. I’ve read a lot of the interesting sounding stuff from Project Gutenberg, but since nothing has fallen into the public domain since about 1923 or so there isn’t much that is “newish” – I’m thinking of stuff from the 50s and 60s. Some of that is still being collected and published in new volumes for reasonable prices, so I guess it isn’t too bad, but it seems strange to me that things published before my father was born are not yet available for the greater social good.
At any rate, I did enjoy this book, and will probably get started on the next one. Too bad I don’t have any long 8 hour plane rides coming up where I can steal some time for reading…!
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