Name: Swords and Deviltry
Rating: 3.75 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9781595820792

Fritz Leiber

In order to forget their grief over the death of their lovers, Fafhrd the Barbarian and the Gray Mouser set off in search of adventure.

Swords and Deviltry

Jose Sbuck

A classic of fantasy that I had missed previously. Leiber wrote about Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser in the 1970's. The origin stories of Fafhrd and Gray Mouser are separate and in the third story they meet in Lankhmar and target the Thieves' Guild. Fritz Leiber writes with humour and compassion. His characters are not righteous heroes, but rather flawed and humane real people who just happen to live in a world of swords and magic. <br /><br />The short stories are well written and fun to read. Good entertainment but don't expect any deep wisdom.

Aaron J Mitchell

Adore Leiber's stories and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser never fail to delight as sword and sorcery anti-heroes just trying to make their way through an insane and dangerous fantasy world.

Janice Hopper

One of the classics. I think this must have been a big influence on Pratchett.

Early sword and sorcery. In this volume, we get Fafhrd origin story, the Grey Mouser's origin, and their first adventure together.

I may have read this decades ago, or maybe it was some other of their adventures, but I rather liked it all better this time around.

Rjyan C Kidwell

The first two stories are origin tales for Teen Conan and Medieval Baby Batman. They had their own flavor, I was kinda digging them. The third tale, which brings the two characters together, was a real buzzkill. There's an annoying streak of real petty misogyny-- that sad flavor of macho that comes from a guy who has never had a female friend and gives shit to guys he knows that do. Aside from that, though, the pacing is a drag, partly because Leiber doesn't know when to lay off the over-detailed descriptions, and partly because he's got the two brotagonists on a bromantic date getting drunk for a bizarre number of pages. TBH I might read another one in this series, just to see if Leiber lets Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser make out, like Kos of the Dooms clearly intended.

Swords and Deviltry

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