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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Charles Phipps[/i] [br]Hey folks, I just got down re-reading this book and really enjoyed it. Sadly, I do think it got bogged down in some of the historical baggage of the "epic jungle tale" and colonialism as well as some unfortunate attempts to use tropes that didn't work well (the cannibal goblin tribals) but overall it was really good. I also felt it kind of predicted some later developments in fiction like the fact Mezro could easily be viewed as kind of Chultish version of Wakanda. An isolated highly advanced (magically in this case) civilization that, nevertheless, has abandoned its surrounding people to be subject to the brutality of outsiders. I admit, I forgot tabaxi were also a bunch of humans as well as cat people so my mental image of the book was screwed up for roughly half of it. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.