New on the bookshelf

[viktor_haag]

Glen Cook's latest, "The Tyranny of the Night" is now out in mass-market paperback apparently. So my trip to the bookstore where I was going to pick up John C Wright's new "Orphans of Chaos" (in mmpb) and only a ten dollar expense turned into a 40-dollar extravaganza. ::sigh::

More books I likely will not read until I'm fifty. If at all.

I will before the March break take a ruthless pruning saw to my (a) bookshelves, (b) boardgame collection, and (c) rolegame collection. I will. I will.

Dammit.

Comments

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

I don't think i've ever seen "rolegame" used before.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I think it might be a british-ism that I adopted because I thought it made more sense than "roleplaying game". Card game, board game, role game. Tahdah.

I seem to remember that "tabletop rolegame" is also used fairly frequently; I'm not sure what the distinction is. Maybe between those you play seated around a table, and those you play dressed up in chainmail and prancing around on some northern English heaths? (I don't do the latter: I have friends who do, but I, frankly, never really saw much point to it.)

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

...It's now suddenly occurred to me that having both 'playing' or 'game' in 'roleplaying game' is, in fact, redundant.

Huh.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Maybe the redundancy is to reinforce in players the notion that they should actually be having fun... 8)

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

I think Paul Mason preferentially used the term in his past write-ups when he was still involved with A&E.

::B::

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

That makes perfect sense to me, since I was a loyal reader (although not correspondent) of Imazine and fan of Outlaws of the Water Margin before I started contributing to A&E.

[mylescorcoran]

50? I'm looking at my shelves and and the books I'm thinking I'll hit when I reach retirement at 65.

Then I think of European demographics and wonder if I'll be retiring at 65.

I'm hoping that the Vingean Singularity brings plenty of time for reading, boardgames and rolegames.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

reach retirement at 65

Clearly, Myles, you have a higher resistance to maudlin despair than I do... 8)

[mylescorcoran]

Cheer up. Remember, he who dies with the most books wins.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

That's going to put a serious dent in my "by March-break we must have a clear-out" plans, you know...

[mylescorcoran]

We all have to make sacrifices. Maybe you'll have to buy a bigger place. I know I'm going to have to.