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diff --git a/content-org/brain-rot.org b/content-org/brain-rot.org index 8f2d133..dfaad6f 100644 --- a/content-org/brain-rot.org +++ b/content-org/brain-rot.org @@ -2628,7 +2628,8 @@ CLOSED: [2024-04-14 Sun 18:10] Witcher #+end_menu -*** DONE Witcher + +*** DONE Witcher (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1990-2018) CLOSED: [2024-04-14 Sun 18:10] :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: _index @@ -2645,6 +2646,23 @@ CLOSED: [2024-04-14 Sun 18:10] Witcher #+end_menu +*** DONE Chronicles of Amber (Roger Zelazny, 1970-1991) +CLOSED: [2024-04-14 Sun 18:10] +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: _index +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: :primary_menu "brain-rot" +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract The Chronicles of Amber series +:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-r menu menu-info +:EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: brain-rot/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber +:EXPORT_HUGO_MENU_OVERRIDE: :post "series" +:END: + + +#+attr_shortcode: "brain-rot-fantasy-amber" +#+begin_menu +Witcher +#+end_menu + ** Modern Games :PROPERTIES: @@ -3088,3 +3106,61 @@ And he can hold his breath underwater for solid 10 minutes! Not bad for a 6 hour game. + + +** Chronicles of Amber +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: brain-rot/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/ +:EXPORT_HUGO_MENU: :menu "brain-rot-fantasy-amber" +:END: + +*** DONE Nine Princes in Amber (Roger Zelazny, 1970) +CLOSED: [2024-07-22 Mon 23:21] +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: nine-princes-in-amber +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract The fastest fantasy book in the wild west +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :rating 4 +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image brain-rot/covers/nine-princes-in-amber.jpg +:END: + +That's one confusing novel. + +Corwin wakes up in a hospital in New York with amnesia. +But the cover of the book has castles and swords![fn:cover] +Well, as it turns out Corwin is one of nine princes of Amber, the greatest city that has ever been. +It is medieval-Europe, but it is said to be the greatest, so who am I to argue? +He will need to get back there and fight for the crown with his siblings. + +That's the basic premise. +What threw me off the guard (except of starting in modern-day NY) is the pace. +I'm no fantasy know-it-all, but it appears that this genre likes to take it's sweet time. +Authors describe every tree by every road[fn:tolkien]. +They love to build their worlds, lore, characters. +Zelazny doesn't care about any of that. +A huge battle where 20 000 people die? A paragraph seems like a proper length. +Magic system? Yeah, let's throw a few sentences here and there. +The main character background, looks and goals? Let's not bother. +This is a short book (my version had just over 200 pages), but with standard wordiness, it could be a thousand pages long leather-bound brick, that would serve as a nice weapon. + +#+attr_shortcode: 4 "nine-princes-in-amber.jpg" +#+begin_rating +Cover +#+end_rating + +This also means that /Nine Princes in Amber/ is extremely shallow. +There is nothing underneath - just a few awful characters, a few OK, and our Corwin. +If there is any subtext, I must have missed it. +And yet, I loved it. +It's pulp, but it goes /so fast/ that I never got tired of it. +It went /so fast/ that I had no time to get bored or lost[fn:tolkien]. +Guess that's why /The Chronicles of Amber/ is one of the most popular Fantasy sagas out there. +It is inoffensive, not challenging in any way, but it's cool. +It knows it, and doesn't pretend it. + +I enjoyed it for what it is. +It's the greatest mindless fun I've had in ages. +It's not /hardcore/ fantasy, and this may be why I liked it so much as I did. +If anything, it's /Magnum P.I./ of the genre. + +[fn:cover] or whatever your edition has +[fn:tolkien] hello Tolkien |