Cross-posted on Soapboxing So, this isn't entirely a drunk book review, but it's also not entirely sober. As such, I know I'm not going to bother checking my references and making sure I'm not making stuff up, so fair warning. Which is the thing. The Long Ships was written by a Swede (or possibly ...
”His voice became frenzied, and he glared wrathfully from one to the other, brandishing his arms and crying: Blood-wolves, murderers and malefactors, adulterated vermin, Gadarene swine, weeds of Satan and minions of Beelzebub, generation of vipers and basilisks, shall you be cleansed by holy baptism...
Read a prettier version of this exact review over here!I was expecting to completely and utterly love this. I ended up just mostly loving it. Disappointment can be so, so hard.This book works as so many different things all at once that it only just barely edges out being a masterpiece. I'd been mea...