The bit inbetween though? Saturday was lovely. Chinese food, book shopping and Hope showing me round the aquarium (we had to find Nemo...)I didn't have a lot of time for book shopping, someone really wanted to get to the aquarium, but I managed to get to a couple of favourite second hand book shops that I hadn't been to in a while. Here's what I managed to find for myself...
The beauty of going book shopping with a two year old is that you invariably find yourself in the kids section. I don't think she's ready for Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks just yet but I used to have these books (when I was a kid) and I thought it was about time I had them again :o) Out of all the books in the series, 'Deathtrap Dungeon' and 'Forest of Doom' were my favourites; I could spend hours reading through them on a Sunday afternoon... I fancied a bit of nostalgia reading but I also wanted to see how they measured up to the 'Destiny Quest' series that has just started running. You can expect to see a nostalgic fanboy post in the next few weeks... ;o)
Its been years since I read 'The Broken Sword' and, again, I thought it was about due a re-read. I've also found myself starting to scour second hand bookshops to build up my Fantasy Masterworks collection (missed out on the Fantasy Masterworks 'The King of Elfland's Daughter' and I don't want to do that again) so I couldn't pass up on the chance of a copy here. There'll definitely be a review but I'm not sure quite when...
That's me then, what book(s) did you buy over the weekend?
Ooooh, Fighting Fantasy, now that brings back memories. I think I played the first 15 or so, plus the Sorcery! series, all on the (rather flimsy, I have to admit) pretext of improving my English. I always thought that the ones written by Jackson had the better stories, while the Livingstone ones were beetter written - or was that the other way round? In any case, I'm really curious as to how those have held up, I think I have mine still lying around somewhere...
ReplyDeleteI used to have many FFG books when I was kid. I loved them to read.
ReplyDeleteCant wait for your opinions on fighting fantasy my favourite were Caverns of the snow witch and Armies of death which i believe was a sequel to Deathtrap Dungeon.
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