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In 1970, Jim Theis penned a fantasy novella called The Eye of Argon. It would soon become immortalized in fandom as the "worst fantasy story ever." Mr. Theis claimed that he was so hurt by the constant mockery that he would never write anything ever again. In 2018, Geoff Bottone read The Eye of Argon for, perhaps, the dozenth time and discovered, to his surprise, that there was an actual story lurking beneath the misspellings and malapropisms of the original. With editing pen in hand, he set out on a lonely, and perhaps futile, quest to redeem Mr. Theis' work by using its foundation to tell an interesting and fun story.That story has now been finished, and it is up to you to judge whether Mr. Bottone's efforts were successful, or merely mad folly.For Ecordia! Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This is a reimagining as it were of [b:The Eye of Argon|2129518|The Eye of Argon|Jim Theis|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347758875l/2129518._SY75_.jpg|2134961] retaining its main plot points and trying to cobble that fragmentary plot into something decent. This work does do that with a smattering of simple character development and a coherent plot built onto the original's bones. At a few points, it seemed that the author tried to insert some jokes near the beginning via corny dialogue but they did not fit taking me out of the story.
The narrative, for the most part, did keep me reading all the way through in a single sitting, so it's not bad, not particularly good but I'm not mad I read it. The author's preface to the work is just as if not a little more interesting than the main story. Basically, a repeat of the original's origin as opposed to the actual text. As a piece of sword and sorcery fiction, it's okay. If you've been dry for a while this will wet your lips a bit. However, it feels like sword and sorcery lite, like an old eighties Italian barbarian exploitation flick without the nudity, a decent main monster, and better characters. I could recommend this to those who fit the previously mentioned criteria; those who don't mind those old exploitation flicks and that have not read a bit of sword and sorcery in a while. I mean it lacks the awful hilarity of The Eye of Argon but it's also not [b:Brak the Barbarian|509045|Brak the Barbarian (Brak the Barbarian, #1)|John Jakes|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1175371607l/509045._SY75_.jpg|3058663] bad. ( )