Fighting fantasy books vintage8/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a story you can shape with a pencil and two dice: you are a hero with a sword, who must explore a wizard’s underground lair, before finally defeating the great mage in battle and taking his treasure. It’s a maze through which you must find your way, filled with wrong turnings and frustrating locks. There’s no strong central protagonist, except that in a way there is that as well. This is not a story I once loved, except in a way it is. Because this text, more than most, is not made for working. ![]() Will it come again, as I work through the text? If I work on the text, then no. Now so it happens that on a Boxing Day sale I picked up a book I loved as a child and therefore it seems fitting to write a little about it, now, glancing back down the vanished days of this and other years, and to try to again see the pleasure I once had. It’s a time for looking back, as the old year ends.
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