November 2008
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Of Elves and Lobotomies
When The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange arrived at PW, it was tossed in the rejects pile immediately. Yet something made me retrieve it—perhaps a sympathy for the boys at college who huddled over a board for hours, emerging only to go to the bathroom to shave their odd facial hair. I’m glad I took the chance. Mark Barrowcliffe’s book is a brilliantly funny...