Mazes & Monsters
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780440156994 (0440156998)
ASIN: 0440156998
Publish date: 1982-07-15
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 351
Edition language: English
Trite, trashy, and poorly written. Shows nothing but the ignorance of the author whose only research on Dungeons & Dragons appears to be what she read in the papers. Oh, and the movie version was equally bad despite Tom Hanks being in it.
I got this under the misapprehension that it would be something like Anderson's Gamearth. In fact, it seems to be a rather overly "telling" (versus showing) psychological portrayal of some college kids in 1980 who become obsessed with their D&D. We are told on the first page that something awful and...
hahahahahaha. I read this so long ago, but the whole idea still makes me laugh.