Finished the Elak of Atlantis stories. These are really fun if you enjoy 90 year old pulp sword and sorcery. Very fast moving, lots of action and strange peril and just general stuff going down. They're very short and simply written, but paradoxically almost slower reads because you can't skim read any of it.

(One of the major reasons I suspect the word count in fantasy novels has ballooned over the last 30 years or so is the triplex emphases on originality, detail and show don't tell. Your old pulp story could do a huge amount in a very small page count because they very often used a sort of common setting which simply told the audience most of the background info right off the bat. If you're on Mars, it's dry, dying and decadent. That gets a huge amount of exposition out pf the way in a word, and then the author is generally content to let a lot of things ride on suggestion and implication. Now you can't do that, every series needs to have its own magic system and world and it all need to be described in detail but it has to be show not told so here's some schmuck explaining food imports for four paragraphs instead of the author just saying "With the besiegers blocking the roads,, food started to run short.")