Leaving Mundania : Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games (Paperback)

from jasonpettus

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) Of all the "NPR-worthy" books I read these days (or that is, nonfiction titles with an academic's dedic...

from BJPetrie

Leaving Mundania is a wonderful journalistic look at one of my passions, Live Action Role Playing, or LARP. It is rare to see so much effort into researching this often misrepresented hobby. While I did not learn much about LARP that I did not already know from being involved in ti for years, I w...

from Esquiress

This book was absolutely fascinating and unbelievably informative. I couldn't believe how much information I was able to gain about LARP of all kinds, including the type that Queen Elizabeth I partook in. The book was well-written, and the only reason it's not a five-star rating is that there wer...

from JeremyPreacher

I was not at all interested in larping, reading about larping, or thinking about larping, but two references to this book within twelve hours made me go pick it up, and I'm glad I did. I wouldn't describe it as an evenhanded piece of reporting - Stark got herself firmly embedded in the larp scene...

from jasonpettus

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) Of all the "NPR-worthy" books I read these days (or that is, nonfiction titles with an academic's dedic...