Comments on: Settlers of Catan: The Novel (with exclusive book trailer)

By: Néojaponisme

Néojaponisme — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:12:00 +0000

http://neojaponisme.com/2006/07/10/settlers-of-catan-the-short-story/

We somehow parodied this concept before it was even a concept.

By: CP-S

CP-S — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:13:00 +0000

Next: Occupy movements collaborate on a novelization for Monopoly.

By: mistwolf

mistwolf — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:35:00 +0000

I believe they call that a ‘dictionary’. And there are several ‘official’ Scrabble ones. ;)

By: Adam S.

Adam S. — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:21:00 +0000

Don’t you fucking know? I’m Rob fucking Ford, the mayor of this city, and I got wheat to trade!You bitches!

By: Iscah

Iscah — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:19:00 +0000

Do you suppose anyone could convince the narrator to settle on a pronunciation of ‘Odin’ for two minutes?

Also, that sounded… awful. I can believe it might not be, but it sounded pretty terrible.

By: N Morrison

N Morrison — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:56:00 +0000

I also read this book in German several years ago and liked it. A few things to point out: Other than explaining certain character types in the game like “settlers” and “thieves” and sharing a similar fictional setting, the novel has little to do with the game at all. Also, religious differences do show up in the book, but Christianity plays a minority part, and in the end as I recall the story promotes religious tolerance. The novel is great historical fiction, and does a good job of depicting life in pre-Christian Europe.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:50:00 +0000

I made it through Oregon Trail with nothing but bacon. Find something useful on the side of the road? Trade it for bacon. Horse broke a leg? Bacon. Broke a wagon wheel? Bacon! Dysenta- BACON!

There is nothing it cannot do. I have proven it.

By: Devlin Donnelly

Devlin Donnelly — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:02:00 +0000

Price: 1 sheep and 2 wood or best offer.

By: Jonathan Badger

Jonathan Badger — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:36:00 +0000

Sometimes tie-ins can be better than one would expect. Haven’t read this, but about 25 years ago the late lamented George Alec Effinger wrote a series of novels based on Infocom adventure games that were surprisingly readable.

By: Mike Baker

Mike Baker — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:32:00 +0000

One man’s struggle to trade some of his crap-load of wood for some ore before the robber moves.

By: Annika

Annika — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:26:00 +0000

Even though the idea of writing a novel about a board game is a bit strange, this book is absolutely great. I’ve read it in the German original years ago and it has great characters, an interesting story and sound historical research. You should definitely check out Rebecca Gablé’s other books; I think her series about late-medieval England is being released in the states as well. She’s one of my absolute favorite authors and I think it’s great that people outside of Germany and Austria can enjoy her work as well now. I almost envy you for getting to read it all for the first time…

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:16:00 +0000

Next up: Oregon Trail, the novel, in which a band of 8-year-old pioneers slaughter every buffalo they lay eyes on and leave a trail of gravestones with “fart” written on them. It’s a lot like “Lord of the Flies” , really.

By: Stephen Wark

Stephen Wark — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:55:00 +0000

What a positively wretched idea. Go novelize Scrabble.

By: singingdragon

singingdragon — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:51:00 +0000

Sorry, Settlers of Catan: the Novel. The two point Wackiest Idea card still belongs to Settlers of Zarahemla.

By: Jack Holmes

Jack Holmes — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:45:00 +0000

Hey, they can’t be using boats in this trailer! They need the Seafarers expansion for that!

By: モりやま

モりやま — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:31:00 +0000

カタンの開拓者たちノベライズかあ

By: eruditeogre

eruditeogre — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Wait, what? Catan means “land of starlight?” And there’s religious conflict? And it’s all the fault of the faeries? Dude, I just want Longest Road!

By: alephxero

alephxero — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:27:00 +0000

The summary actually sounds a lot like the new Battlestar Galactica.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:22:00 +0000

They take a boardgame about resource management and turn it into a conflict between Christianity and pagan religions? Who exactly is this book for?

By: Teirhan

Teirhan — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:21:00 +0000

I’m not sure how I feel about this.

Since when did Settlers of Catan have a narrative? Or is this what I get for never reading the rule booklet?

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:20:00 +0000

I’ve got wood for your yarn.

By: xzzy

xzzy — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:17:00 +0000

Books get trailers now?

I must be getting old.