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<blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 7867663" data-attributes="member: 16069"><p><strong>#033 Once Around the Realms Guidebook by Brian Thomsen </strong></p><p><strong>Read 3/12/19 to 4/12/19</strong></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]116573[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Blimey! And don't get confused by the fact that I read this in just two days, only twenty pages in and I quickly worked out that if I didn't read this one quickly then I would just put it down somewhere and walk away, never to go back to it.</p><p></p><p>It's rubbish.</p><p></p><p>I appreciate that's possibly a nasty thing to say, but I promise you I have my reasons, but before we get in to them let me just qualify my 'rubbish' precis. If you want to read a book the premise of which is so flimsy, that darts from place to place having jolly japes with bumbling folk (except perhaps for the great Volo) that save their backsides again and again with a variety of implausible and/or grating last-minute million-to-one shots. Which furthermore revisits a myriad places in the Realms we have been before (in the other novels) and yet fails spectacularly to distinguish one place from another (mostly because it is moving so quickly), name-checks or else bumps in to a slew of Realmsian popular figures (mostly for no effect) and also seeks to replicate/pastiche the plots, lines, names of characters etc. from an equal number of modern (and older) fictions (films, books, TV characters et al). If you want all that- then this, my friend, is the book for you.</p><p></p><p>Oh, but I killed two birds with the one stone, I qualified my summary of the book and in the process pointed out the texts many (and various) failings.</p><p></p><p>It sucks.</p><p></p><p>Was it a Christmas novel/stocking filler?</p><p>Who's idea was it?</p><p>Why?</p><p></p><p>And.</p><p></p><p>WHY?</p><p></p><p>Is it just me?</p><p></p><p>Someone, anyone, please reply.</p><p></p><p>I mean Volo's okay, and its Around the World in 80 Days, so no surprises there, but the Amistad, Hannibal- who loves it when a plan comes together, Eli of the Wallachs- Halfling bandito, Khaerbaal/Kerbal airspace, The D. Niven airship, Reeta/Rita Hayworth, Mis Ta Rurks/Mister Kurt, and on... and on... and, bloody, on.</p><p></p><p>Read! I genuinely wish I hadn't.</p><p></p><p>That's five or so hours of my life that I am never getting back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goonalan, post: 7867663, member: 16069"] [B]#033 Once Around the Realms Guidebook by Brian Thomsen Read 3/12/19 to 4/12/19[/B] [ATTACH alt="Forgotten Realms Once Around the Realms a 30.jpg"]116573[/ATTACH] Blimey! And don't get confused by the fact that I read this in just two days, only twenty pages in and I quickly worked out that if I didn't read this one quickly then I would just put it down somewhere and walk away, never to go back to it. It's rubbish. I appreciate that's possibly a nasty thing to say, but I promise you I have my reasons, but before we get in to them let me just qualify my 'rubbish' precis. If you want to read a book the premise of which is so flimsy, that darts from place to place having jolly japes with bumbling folk (except perhaps for the great Volo) that save their backsides again and again with a variety of implausible and/or grating last-minute million-to-one shots. Which furthermore revisits a myriad places in the Realms we have been before (in the other novels) and yet fails spectacularly to distinguish one place from another (mostly because it is moving so quickly), name-checks or else bumps in to a slew of Realmsian popular figures (mostly for no effect) and also seeks to replicate/pastiche the plots, lines, names of characters etc. from an equal number of modern (and older) fictions (films, books, TV characters et al). If you want all that- then this, my friend, is the book for you. Oh, but I killed two birds with the one stone, I qualified my summary of the book and in the process pointed out the texts many (and various) failings. It sucks. Was it a Christmas novel/stocking filler? Who's idea was it? Why? And. WHY? Is it just me? Someone, anyone, please reply. I mean Volo's okay, and its Around the World in 80 Days, so no surprises there, but the Amistad, Hannibal- who loves it when a plan comes together, Eli of the Wallachs- Halfling bandito, Khaerbaal/Kerbal airspace, The D. Niven airship, Reeta/Rita Hayworth, Mis Ta Rurks/Mister Kurt, and on... and on... and, bloody, on. Read! I genuinely wish I hadn't. That's five or so hours of my life that I am never getting back. [/QUOTE]
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