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FMK #35: Sword & Sorcery
Last week's F winner was "We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea", so I guess I will be finding out if I still like Swallows & Amazons. The most K votes was Hatchet with six, but Hatchet also had a lot of M and F votes, and actually nothing had a K majority last week - the closest was Anna Smudge with 4 F, 1 M, and 5 K.
My excuse for not reading anything this week is that I've been reading various translation of the Tao Te Ching instead, becauseStar Wars reasons. [Back me up, people: the world does not need an edition of the Force Powers Codex that has the translation produced by Finn, Rey, Threepio, and Ghost!Luke (which translates 道 as "Force") parallel with the translation produced by Artoo, BB8, Poe, and Ghost!Han (which translates 道 as "this shit we're talking about")]
Anyway, this week, in honor of Jedi Knights: Sword & Sorcery!
How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.
I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.
Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)
My excuse for not reading anything this week is that I've been reading various translation of the Tao Te Ching instead, because
Anyway, this week, in honor of Jedi Knights: Sword & Sorcery!
How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.
I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.
Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)
Poll #19358 FMK #35: Sword and Sorcery
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 32
The Wizard and the Warlord by Elizabeth Boyer (1983)
Swords of the Barbarians by Kenneth Bulmer (1970)
The Hand of Zei by L. Sprague de Camp (1963)
Mind Wizards of Callisto by Lin Carter (1975)
Wizard's Bane by Rick Cook (1989)
Kothar of the Magic Sword! by Gardner F. Fox (1969)
The Witches of Wenshar by Barbara Hambly (1987)
Conan of Cimmeria by Robert E. Howard (1969)
The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley (1919)
Butterfly and Hellflower by eluki bes shahar (1993)
King Kobold by Christopher Stasheff (1971)
The Rose Sea by S. M. Stirling (1994)
The Seven Towers by Patricia Wrede (1984)
Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny (1969)