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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8291396" data-attributes="member: 30438">Rothfuss' writing is so gorgeous, it's clever and evocative. I think it also covers up some of the flaws of an author that is still early in his career. Though I suppose that at the rate of publication he's maintaining, he could also be at the end. In any case, for all else I delight in reading his prose.I finished reading Saberhagen's The First Book of Swords. I definitely got more out of it on the second read, after having read the Empire of the East series. The 80s were a time of codification of fantasy, though, and it shows as the post-apocalyptic lost tech elements aren't as prominent here.I read Weldon and Bjornstad's Playing with Fire, a prime document of the Satanic Panic. It's a fascinating piece of propaganda, that makes a big show of being a fair and scholarly assessment of RPGs, but is pretty much a kangaroo court from the beginning. I'm reminded of the quote from the Witcher series..."You talk nonsense while making wise and meaningful faces."Now I'm re-reading Jack Vance's The Star King.</blockquote>