The Elfish Gene

[Remus Lupin]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Elfish-Gene-Dungeons-Dragons-Growing/dp/1569475229/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223520584&sr=8-1"]This book[/ame] has finally been released in the United States and I received my copy today. I am enjoying it immensely so far. Has anyone else read it? What are your reactions?

 

[carrot]

I read it... It started off well, but it didn't last. Hope you enjoy the second half more than I did.

 

[WayneLigon]

Well, after reading the RPGnet review of this, I think I can live my life without ever cracking it open.

 

[Remus Lupin]

Well, I'm about 2/3 of the way through it now, and I'm finding it hillarious. I've tried reading portions to my wife, but I break up laughing so hard I become incoherent.

 

[Remus Lupin]

Well, I guess I'm one of the few who has read and/or enjoyed this book. In any event, I finished it last night and was glad to have read it. It was, in the end, less a book about D&D than a book about male adolescence. As a child of the 70s and 80s myself, I found a lot of resonance with this book, and was slightly surprised to be reminded that, in the end, growing up in England and growing up in the United States were different in substantial ways, but not as far as a teenager's experience of reality (and fantasy) goes.