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The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien

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It‘s very different from the movies and I love them both!

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The People of the Black Circle | Robert Ervin Howard

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Too many variations on a theme to read in one sitting. And my goodness, the racism is blatant, even more so for being set in a fantasy pre Ice Age world

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The People of the Black Circle | Robert Ervin Howard

#lunchandabook #mycover

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The Curse of the Wise Woman (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) | Edward John Moreton Dunsany

It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.

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The Curse of the Wise Woman (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) | Edward John Moreton Dunsany

I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.”

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The Curse of the Wise Woman (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) | Edward John Moreton Dunsany

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A mixed bag and a bit of a disappointment, given how much I've enjoyed Dunsany's other writings. Not that it's badly written, of course, but for me this could have been reduced by about half (I'd allow him a bit of hunting, as he likes it so much) and would have been five times more effective. https://www.librarything.com/work/525117/reviews/95723432

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