Spell of Intrigue
Jul. 8th, 2012 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
draggonlaadySome time ago, I read a book by Mayer Alan Brenner, Spell of Catastrophe. I promptly downloaded the rest of the series (available from the author's website, no piracy here!) and then never got around to reading them. I'm gonna fix that now, and rejoin the adventures of Maximillian the Vaguely Disreputable. Today I started Spell of Intrigue, and 14 pages in am already encountering lines I feel the need to share. The hell did I wait so long to continue this series? Bah.
"Adventuring is an improvisational art."
"It's my kids," he said, "I should never have had kids in the first place. That was the beginning of the end. They warp your whole sensibility. You should have some."
Max was fully at home with the company of a highly functioning mind. The Lion, Max had discovered, had a brain with which no one could find fault, but was reticent to the point of pulling teeth about actually using it...
I had deep reservoirs of total incompetence whose surfaces I had barely begun to scratch.
"Adventuring is an improvisational art."
"It's my kids," he said, "I should never have had kids in the first place. That was the beginning of the end. They warp your whole sensibility. You should have some."
Max was fully at home with the company of a highly functioning mind. The Lion, Max had discovered, had a brain with which no one could find fault, but was reticent to the point of pulling teeth about actually using it...
I had deep reservoirs of total incompetence whose surfaces I had barely begun to scratch.
