Lean Times in Lankhmar
Apr. 8th, 2012 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
farrandySo, I have been re-reading once again the adventures of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. I was coming up to the classic "Lean Times in Lankhmar", one of the best of the lot. I put it off for a couple of days, largely because I knew that I wasn't going to have a lot of reading time and once you start that particular story you really don't want to stop. That's what I told myself anyway. When I finally got the time, I sat there chuckling along with our heroes (when not snickering or laughing out loud) when I suddenly wondered if I hadn't put it off subconsciously for another reason.
I was reading it on the Saturday evening between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Now for those not familiar with "Lean Times in Lankhmar" (shame on you!), it is a somewhat odd Fafhrd and Mouser story in that it has very little in the way of either swords or sorcery, which F&M stories are usually overflowing with. What it does have, aside from barrels of laughs, is lots of commentary on religion, specifically how they begin, evolve and a bit on how they end. So, realizing that I was reading this story at a time that so many consider to be the highest of holy times just added to the enjoyment.
So, was my brain, in making me wait to read the story, actually being more clever than I usually give it credit for, or was it just serendipity?
Eh! Who cares? Fafhrd and Mouser: fun! If you haven't read "Lean Times in Lankhmar", do it now.
Why are you still looking at this entry? I said got read the story NOW!
I was reading it on the Saturday evening between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Now for those not familiar with "Lean Times in Lankhmar" (shame on you!), it is a somewhat odd Fafhrd and Mouser story in that it has very little in the way of either swords or sorcery, which F&M stories are usually overflowing with. What it does have, aside from barrels of laughs, is lots of commentary on religion, specifically how they begin, evolve and a bit on how they end. So, realizing that I was reading this story at a time that so many consider to be the highest of holy times just added to the enjoyment.
So, was my brain, in making me wait to read the story, actually being more clever than I usually give it credit for, or was it just serendipity?
Eh! Who cares? Fafhrd and Mouser: fun! If you haven't read "Lean Times in Lankhmar", do it now.
Why are you still looking at this entry? I said got read the story NOW!
