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- Pure-blooded Pict
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- Registered: 3/02/2014
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John Jakes
Had not heard of Brak the Barbarian, by John Jakes and picked up several used books in the series this weekend. I was pleasantly surprised that the first book isn't that bad. Obviously a Conan like figure, Brak is thrust into the wiles of civilization as he travels to his destination of a gleaming golden city called Khurdisan. Not REH but fun none the less.
“How can I wear the harness of toil
And sweat at the daily round,
While in my soul forever
The drums of Pictdom sound?”
- Ghul
- Dread Necromancer
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- Registered: 3/01/2014
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Re: John Jakes
Never read them! Let us know what you think when you finish the first one. 
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- Morty
- Rogue
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- Registered: 3/08/2014
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Re: John Jakes
Because of modern associations I have a picture in my mind's eye of the Space Ghost sidekick Brak treading the jeweled thrones of the earth under his sandled feet.
A Room Zoom Zoom. A Room Zoom Zoom. Gilly Gilly Gilly Gilly Ot Zat Za Come open the magic door with me, With your imagination there's so much we can see. There is a doorway that leads to a place. I'll find my way by the smile on your
- Morty
- Rogue
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A Room Zoom Zoom. A Room Zoom Zoom. Gilly Gilly Gilly Gilly Ot Zat Za Come open the magic door with me, With your imagination there's so much we can see. There is a doorway that leads to a place. I'll find my way by the smile on your
- foxroe
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"I, Satampra Zeiros of Uzuldaroum, shall write with my left hand, since I have no longer any other, the tale of everything that befell Tirouv Ompallios and myself in the shrine of the god Tsathoggua..."
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