tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post477012113075686105..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: CONJURE WIFE by Fritz Leiber (Street and Smith 1943)Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-12793939491533662952016-10-31T05:35:49.729-04:002016-10-31T05:35:49.729-04:00Love this book, always have, always will - well do...Love this book, always have, always will - well done Todd.Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)https://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-78324478201998979712015-12-03T17:22:50.935-05:002015-12-03T17:22:50.935-05:00Thanks. Though Leiber being a better writer than R...Thanks. Though Leiber being a better writer than Rice and King...well, it's such a given that it seems strange to have to stress it. As are so many writers. Particularly than Rice...King has shown some genuine talent on occasions in which he wrote another draft.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-32850719707816110222015-11-30T16:56:54.249-05:002015-11-30T16:56:54.249-05:00Sold! (if only for "bloated, maundering kitch...Sold! (if only for "bloated, maundering kitchen-sink approaches.") Your wordsmithery is addictive, Todd. Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-49146825077925889072015-11-28T20:31:51.947-05:002015-11-28T20:31:51.947-05:00His stories of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (indeed,...His stories of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (indeed, beginning with "Adept's Gambit") are certainly not oppositional to this novel, Richard! And in those, Fafhrd is a correspondent to Leiber, the Mouser to Harry Fischer, Leiber's old friend who helped devise the characters and wrote a bit of "Adept's" and a considerable amount of one other story in the series...being too lazy to check at the moment, I think it was "The Lords of Quarmall"--and, unlazing, I'm correct. The best of the F&GM stories are on par with CONJURE WIFE and the best of his other horror work (F&GM are often borderline horror in their sword and sorcery context), though the weaker ones are, well, lesser...since Leiber notably used the duo to help ease himself around writer's block at several points in his career...and amusingly traded characters with Joanna Russ for one story each, in which Fafhrd appeared in one of her Alyx stories, Alyx in one of his F&GM tales...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-16108979595793323312015-11-28T13:56:19.297-05:002015-11-28T13:56:19.297-05:00I'll take Mouser & Ffhard any day.I'll take Mouser & Ffhard any day.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-13587484991598405552015-11-28T08:12:23.322-05:002015-11-28T08:12:23.322-05:00Sounds good, the new video release...we, alas, don...Sounds good, the new video release...we, alas, don't have Leiber, Matheson, Beaumont or Baxt any longer to hear from, but we have the legacy of their work. I need to reread OUR LADY OF DARKNESS, too...are there any other Leiber books you return to?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-62794573652614289892015-11-28T05:11:50.905-05:002015-11-28T05:11:50.905-05:00Great post Todd and the Leiber novels fully deserv...Great post Todd and the Leiber novels fully deserves - a genuine favourite, one of the few I take the trouble to re-read pretty regularly and which i am always recommending to people. I just bought the Blu-ray edition of NIGHT OF THE EAGLE, which is well worth getting by the way for it looks great and has an (old) audio commentary with Matheson and a (new) interview with Peter Wyngarde. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)http://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com