Read that one, too, I'd say it is at best as good as Sword Diplomacy, the character starts off interesting, but the episodic format leaves much to be desired, there were bits and pieces of politically correct crap like the OP girfriend and there was too much modern nonsense and hypster stuff piled in on top of the thing.
It was nowhere near as bad as Jake, and at best maybe as good as Sword Diplomacy.
This happens, and I would agree with you that maybe we should focus on older stuff with less modern garbage thrown in it, like the desire to produce infinite numbers of doorstops, excessive pandering, overly-quirky and forced dialogue, social media pandering/written by committee feel and above all, no decent editing to begin with.
More like social media but I agree.
It was not great, not terrible, either.
Ahem, maybe the whip and the leather can be there for the fan service effect.
To be honest, most new books have been a huge disappointment to me, too, but I don't share your pessimism, the first books were entertaining to the majority, and we had fun talking about them, dissecting them and lampooning them.
Not great, not terrible, either.
If you wish we can put in a theme or a prerequisite for each month, like no Social media age books being nominated or only works by
SF&F Grand Masters ?
The thing is that a lot of us have read the classics and we want new content, and most of the new content is shit.
