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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9576059" data-attributes="member: 86653">The Swords and Sorcery anthology is really throwing up some duds.I stopped reading Fritz Lieber’s When the Sea King’s Away because he was explaining that a story was happening, with endless asides and bizarre flashbacks, instead of...you know...telling a story. That’s the 3rd or 4th time I’ve been bored into dropping a Lieber story. Maybe he’s just not for me.Any Lieber fans have any action-adventure, pulse-pounding yarns of his to suggest? Every one of his I’ve tried so far has just been boring. Page after page after page and nothing happens.Moved on to the next yarn in the collection, The Doom That Came to Sarnath by H. P. Lovecraft. And, despite generally loving his writing, I also dropped it like it was hot. It’s just a really long description of Sarnath with a few bits of story elements thrown in. So I skipped it. I’m sure I’ve read it before and finished it.Next up was a Jirel of Joiry story by C. L. Moore. A few pages in and all I know is that Jirel is on a horse, on a hill overlooking a castle, and she really hates someone named Guy of Garlot. It’s a really involved horse. And a really involved hill. And she really hates that dude, Guy of Garlot. But nothing’s happening. Maybe I'll take another run at this one in a few days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9576059, member: 86653"] The Swords and Sorcery anthology is really throwing up some duds. I stopped reading Fritz Lieber’s When the Sea King’s Away because he was explaining that a story was happening, with endless asides and bizarre flashbacks, instead of...you know...telling a story. That’s the 3rd or 4th time I’ve been bored into dropping a Lieber story. Maybe he’s just not for me. Any Lieber fans have any action-adventure, pulse-pounding yarns of his to suggest? Every one of his I’ve tried so far has just been boring. Page after page after page and nothing happens. Moved on to the next yarn in the collection, The Doom That Came to Sarnath by H. P. Lovecraft. And, despite generally loving his writing, I also dropped it like it was hot. It’s just a really long description of Sarnath with a few bits of story elements thrown in. So I skipped it. I’m sure I’ve read it before and finished it. Next up was a Jirel of Joiry story by C. L. Moore. A few pages in and all I know is that Jirel is on a horse, on a hill overlooking a castle, and she really hates someone named Guy of Garlot. It’s a really involved horse. And a really involved hill. And she really hates that dude, Guy of Garlot. But nothing’s happening. Maybe I'll take another run at this one in a few days. [/QUOTE]

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