How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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It's not a kids bookThe Hobbit is, LOTR isn't and The Silmarillion certainly isn't.
It's also worth bearing in mind that LOTR starts rather badly and changes writing style and pace a few chapters in.
Overall it isn't the best fantasy book out there - however it was the first fantasy book of note.
It's worth reading but there are definite flaws : character interaction is sub par, some characters are rather one dimensional, the pace is inconsistent and the books would have been improved with some editing.
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