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The Elfish Gene, Mark Barrowcliffe

The whole title of this book is The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons, and Growing Up Strange, and it’s a memoir about – well, what the subtitle says (again).  Like Accidentally on Purpose, this book was snatched up at the spur of the moment from the library New Nonfiction shelf.  I think what I was thinking was, Stephen Colbert played Dungeons and Dragons, and I love Stephen Colbert.  Also I have always very vaguely wondered how the game works, and what the appeal was.  Hence the checking out of this book. Mark Barrowcliffe was raised in the Midlands town of Coventry…

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