Review: Truly entertaining!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2010
There are times when you stumble over something more or less by accident, and it turns into a very pleasant surprise. To me, this short story is one of those things. It's funnny! Not laugh out loud funny, but absolutely tug at the mouth amusing.Vengar the barbarian is a mighty warrior from a lost civilization, equipped with a ham sized heart, enormous muscles, and an equally mighty sword. The sword is very, very large, so large in fact that it defies reason. When his journeys take him to the city of Tensara, his feet carries him to a bar and he is soon approached by a maiden in distress. Or, well, she's mostly curvy, but she claims that her sister is in distress. No hero with self respect could turn a challenge like that down, right?Reading this story gave me a feeling similar to the first time I read the Hitch-hiker's guide to the Galaxy. It's a feeling of being entertained and happy, and nowadays it doesn't present itself all that often. For far too long, I've been in a mental state of "Been there, done that, seen it," but this story is refreshing and new. It makes me wonder what else I've been missing. I want more!