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captlychee's review
3.0
'The Eye of Argon' is apparently famous in SF fandom. I had never heard of it until October 7th this year. Anyway, it's regarded as the worst fantasy story ever written, and much rumour and mystery surrounds its origin. most of the rmmours are quashed and the mysteris resolved in this scholarly work.
The actual story is as awful as it sounds, and the editor is at pains to point out that he has accurately reproduced the text from the original 1970 fanzine, or scans of that as supplied by [author: David Langford}. For all that, it didn't seem as badly typed or written as you would think. At least, the Kindle read it to me and it sounded okay from a grammatical, spelling and intelligibility point of view.
Stylistically, 'The Eye of Argon' has its problems. Syntax is awful, images are highly derivative, and stuff like that. Some of these are pointed out by he edigor in one of the three essays that accompany the source material.
What this book lacks is a critical response to the original story. Surely somebody could've run off aa feew thousand words about the story, not just the text. Well, perhaps I shall spend some time doing it over the summer months.
And could someone out there on the Internet run the text through a traesty geneator so we could have more adventures of Gringor the Accordian? (Names reproduced phonetically from the the Kindle's reading.)
The actual story is as awful as it sounds, and the editor is at pains to point out that he has accurately reproduced the text from the original 1970 fanzine, or scans of that as supplied by [author: David Langford}. For all that, it didn't seem as badly typed or written as you would think. At least, the Kindle read it to me and it sounded okay from a grammatical, spelling and intelligibility point of view.
Stylistically, 'The Eye of Argon' has its problems. Syntax is awful, images are highly derivative, and stuff like that. Some of these are pointed out by he edigor in one of the three essays that accompany the source material.
What this book lacks is a critical response to the original story. Surely somebody could've run off aa feew thousand words about the story, not just the text. Well, perhaps I shall spend some time doing it over the summer months.
And could someone out there on the Internet run the text through a traesty geneator so we could have more adventures of Gringor the Accordian? (Names reproduced phonetically from the the Kindle's reading.)
soynamedbue's review
1.0
I mean, it's awful, but then again that's the only reason why anyone reads it. So five out of five stars for that.
kjy_1066's review
4.0
Honestly, Jim Theis did a pretty bang up job for writing a full novella at 16 years old. I discussed this book with a guest on my podcast (Podside Picnic, episode linked below) and we both enjoyed the hell out of how schlocky this sword and sorcery work is
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