One book down, one to go.

[telophase]

The first book that I was looking for in this post, the fantasy where the main character runs a thinly-disguised D&D game, is Enemy Glory, by Karen Michaelson. Look at the descriptions! Look at the reviews! Can I be faulted for expecting it to be reasonably readable, and then hurling it with great force at the wall when he ran the RPG? It ended up reading to me like the author fell in love with her character and wrote a book about his background. Although judging by the reader reviews, many other people fell in love with him, too. Alas, not I.

The children's book still has not been found.

Comments

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Oh, this has to be my favorite review title EVER - "Not Harry Potter - Modesitt on downers!"

(having read the first two of the Spellsong Cycle by Modesitt....which weren't exactly happy romps in the park....)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It didn't seem quite that bad from the back of the book. :D At the time, I was in the mood for heavily character-centric Extruded Fantasy Product, which is what I thought I was getting.

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Instead, you wound up with someone's D&D character. XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Exactly! And lots of gamers don't realize that long recounting of their latest game is hideously boring to most everyone but the other players involved.

My friend Clint has this great story of being pinned against the wall at a party after he accidentally let it slip that he gamed. The guy took twenty-five minites to recount his triumph hit point by hit point in the last Lord of the Rings campaign he played where his character, a dwarf, rushed into battle and was promptly trampled by an elephant.

And people wonder why I don't admit to having gamed when I'm at cons and parties.

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I think it's more telling when you can buy the book on Amazon for $0.01 brand new. :)

Though if stuff like this sells, maybe I can just write up all my characters histories (then get someone else to proofread them for my terrible crimes against English) and get them published. I could make millions! Especially for my early teenage "I'm so angsty" characters, which will instead be labelled as "darkly dramatic with hints of gothicesque narration" :D

[devikun.livejournal.com]

Ah, I was wondering where the D&D references were coming from, so I had to read the comment thread - guess since I'm not a gamer, I wasn't driven to hurling it across the room? I commiserate though; I can imagine how disappointing it would have been.

I don't remember the details of the story that well now, but I do remember wanting more of the dialogue and mystery (?) in between the looooong flashbacks of the character's life. As I recall, those bits would have made up all of a dozen pages, eh?