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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 9873099" data-attributes="member: 59">I finished up a few of books since I last checked in here.  This isn't all of them, just the most recent three.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons, which never really got off the ground for me.  I felt like there were some mildly interesting ideas for essays that devolved into suggestive and vague conclusions.  It was all rather half-baked, though the last five or six essays were enjoyable (excluding Chapter 20 and its tables of possible futures for D&D, which I skipped, just as I skipped the RPG at the end of William White's book on The Forge -- not for me).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dan Jones's The Wars of the Roses, which reads well and is a page turner.  It's a bit shallow at times, and Jones doesn't break much new ground.  I was particularly let down by his handling of Richard III, who was presented in line with <s>the usual vile Tudor propaganda</s> Shakespeare's portrayal and the standard reading of him. I'm inclined, at least right now, to see Richard III as more of a fool, who let events get away from him.  Still a fun read and a good refresher.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Polostan by Neal Stephenson.  A latter day Baroque Cycle, or, at least the beginnings of one.  It feels a bit sparser than that one and a little lighter.  Dawn is a likable main character, if a bit thinly drawn (I read one review that noted Stephenson doesn't write women particularly well, which I'm willing to grant, and that he focused on clothing too much, which I'm not -- the latter made sense when it was brought up, given Dawn's movement through different social strata throughout the novel what she's wearing does matter, though I'm not sure that it was quite paid off).  I enjoyed it, but it's still far too early to know if it'll end up being good.  And the cameos by famous real life historical figures felt weirder given how close we are to the events of the book compared to the others.  (Also, I think I may have enjoyed this more for having watched Reds for the first time recently.)</li> </ul></blockquote>

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