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Samueljhague (1250 KP) rated The Castles of Burgundy in Tabletop Games

Mar 23, 2022

The Castles of Burgundy

2011 | Dice Game, Medieval, Territory Building

8.0

(11 Ratings)

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Puzzle of a game Building area Multi-player Solitaire Dice maipulation Iconography makes sense (0 more)

Components are decent, not compelling Higher learning curve. (0 more)

Building a better board game.

The Castles of Burgundy looks like a typical Euro- board game from the early 2000's it looks boring. It also looks more complicated than it ends up being. The amount of brain power use in this game has a good balance between cerebral and mindless. At the end of the game you have something in front of you that you have built and it feels good in that respect even if you haven't won the game. It can be played casually, and with your full attention. My wife and I enjoy playing this as two players. We have played this many times more as a two player game than any other game in our collection. This game gets top marks, and is as close to a perfect game as I have experienced.

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Move over Solitaire, there's a new king of card games! King’s Corner, or Kings in the Corner, is a...

David McK (3185 KP) rated Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

"When you were young, and your heart was an open book,
You used to say live and let live
(you know you did you know you die you know you did)
But in this ever changing world in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry ...
Live and let die ..."

(cue guitar riff)

With that out of the way - Paul McCartney and Wings, later covered by Guns 'N Roses - Live and Let Die is the second James Bond book by Ian Fleming, but the eighth film in the series, and the first to star Roger Moore in the lead role.

And reading it with contemporary eyes, boy has it aged. Quite different than the movie - although the key elements (vodoo, Baron Samedi, Solitaire, American southwest setting) are intact, it can also be quite uncomfortable reading this with modern sensibilities, particularly in how Flemings (and Bond) treats the female characters, and in how the Harlem culture and denizens are portrayed.

Allowances must be made, I suppose, for the time period in which it was written ...