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I'm looking forward to digging into these, in particular
My Father The Pornographer, Chris Offutt's memoir of his father Andrew. Though perhaps best known for his work editing the
Swords Against Darkness anthologies and as an author of some S&S, horror, and science fiction titles, Andrew Offutt apparently made most of his income writing porn novels under pseudonyms. This purchase was prompted by my recent re-read of
Swords Against Darkness for the Appendix N Book Club Podcast.
Happy to support DMR with this purchase of
Heroes of Atlantis and Lemuria. I've been slowly adding to my collection of CAS and T
he End of the Story is a welcome volume.
Finally,
The Conan Companion is at first glance and one cursory thumb-through a beautiful book and a detailed publishing history of Conan.
More to come on these later.
I read all the Kardios stories in Heroes and enjoyed them. They aren't at the same level as the best of Howard and Leiber but they are enjoyable competent stories.
ReplyDeleteI need to read more CAS.
Thanks... I have read some but not all of the Kardios stories. Looking forward to those.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, you do need to read more CAS! A "heavy" read with dense language, and not an author whose stories can be quickly burned through, but well worth the effort.
I don't have much trouble with CAS style actually. I just haven't gotten around to reading all of his work, though I think I have read a good sampling of it.
ReplyDeleteI actually like books who use rare words like CAS or Jack Vance or Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. You can actually learn something about language that way.