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Black Company

#21 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 15 April 2012 - 05:17 AM

Yeah, it's really good. You can tell Cook was in the forces.

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 07:23 PM

Jean-Claude Van tiam, on 14 April 2012 - 12:29 AM, said:

Im gonna do another full reread of Malaz then get on these. Is there somewhere I can buy all ten for relatively cheaply? I know im going to like them so have no problem buying all of them.

i'm currently on my re-read of malazan, deadhouse gates, reading it in the order i saw someone wrote, werthead i think? starting with midnight tides onwards,

been looking for something really good to follow-up, then i saw this "black company," i'm now intrigued, so i guess, i'll give it a shot once i finish my re-read, let you guys know what i think about it,

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#23 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 23 May 2012 - 07:38 PM

Deck of Dragons, on 23 May 2012 - 07:29 PM, said:

I'm selling my complete Glen Cook collection. 14 hardcovers and 12 trade-paperbacks. Check it out as it is all the good stuff including Winter's Dreams (Subterranean Press), lots of hardcovers, and quite cheap...

Deck of Dragon's Massive Glen Cook Sale

Holy crap, that is one amazing collection! A steal for whoever winds up with it.

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 01:33 AM

Salt-Man Z, on 23 May 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:

Deck of Dragons, on 23 May 2012 - 07:29 PM, said:

Holy crap, that is one amazing collection! A steal for whoever winds up with it.

Thankfully they never sold and I kept them!

#25 amphibian

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 04:18 AM

If you were selling them... why would you want to keep them?

Does not compute. Brain esplodey. Must go play games of tonk to put it back together.

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 05:49 PM

Haven't you ever been desperate for money before, phib?

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#27 Kruppe's snacky cakes

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 06:31 PM

...or he's like me and his #-of-books : storage-space ratio is way too big, so he has to purge every once in a while...but then has seller's remorse...

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 06:40 PM

Kruppe, on 11 June 2012 - 06:31 PM, said:

...or he's like me and his #-of-books : storage-space ratio is way too big, so he has to purge every once in a while...but then has seller's remorse...

Yeah, that's me as well. I simply don't have the space. My purge when I moved was significant and I had to lose some books I quite enjoy.

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#29 Kruppe's snacky cakes

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Posted 12 June 2012 - 03:16 PM

I'm in a "long term, but ultimately temporary" living situation otherwise known as underemployment. So most of my stuff is currently in storage anyway, and I don't, at the moment, have to worry about how many books are lying around. God bless Rubbermaid totes. Although they keep changing the design, darn them. Every time I buy one I have to re-guesstimate which one will accommodate books the best.

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Posted 19 June 2012 - 09:06 PM

Kruppe, on 11 June 2012 - 06:31 PM, said:

...or he's like me and his #-of-books : storage-space ratio is way too big, so he has to purge every once in a while...but then has seller's remorse...

Exactly. I have a massive collection of books and from time to time I do a purge and regret it. In this case, I was glad It did not sell after I listed it twice.

#31 pat5150

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Posted 14 July 2012 - 02:23 PM

A new Glen Cook interview has just been posted on elbakin.net. It was done during a press conference at the Utopiales convention last year and it's pretty interesting.

Follow this link to read the full Q&A.

Cheers,

Patrick

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#32 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 14 July 2012 - 04:38 PM

That was great! Nobody does grumpy old man like Cook. And I can't believe his editor threatened to have Erikson finish the Dread Empire series; that's amazing.

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Posted 14 July 2012 - 05:04 PM

no kidding. wow. cook is hilarious. "I saw your thing on facebook-" "What the hell are you talking about?"

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#34 Whisperzzzzzzz

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Posted 17 July 2012 - 02:35 PM

This is my favorite series of all time, hands down. I'm actually rereading it now and have just finished the first omnibus.

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Posted 17 July 2012 - 05:27 PM

the bit about old guard sf writers writing porn was hysterical!

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#36 Whisperzzzzzzz

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Posted 03 September 2012 - 06:10 PM

Finished the series for the third time. I don't know what it is about these books, but they just get to me in a way that no other series ever has. I connect with the characters, especially the Annalists (and especially Croaker) and I end up feeling what they feel. To be honest, I don't know if I've ever read a story with such a bittersweet ending. And that's the only word I can use to describe it, despite it being such a clumsy word — bittersweet. (And yes, I did cry at the end, just as I did the other two times).

Is any of Cook's other stuff at all comparable to The Black Company? I've read the first two Instrumentalities of the Night books, and while I enjoyed them, they seemed a lot more detached. I've also read the first Garrett book, which I really enjoyed too, but it was in a totally different style than the Company books.

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 02:12 PM

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 03 September 2012 - 06:10 PM, said:

Is any of Cook's other stuff at all comparable to The Black Company? I've read the first two Instrumentalities of the Night books, and while I enjoyed them, they seemed a lot more detached. I've also read the first Garrett book, which I really enjoyed too, but it was in a totally different style than the Company books.

I'd say each series has its own distinct style.

Instrumentalities are incredible but that might be because I'm a medieval history nerd which make puzzeling out the differences/similiarties to real world at least as interesting as the story. Either way its only going to be four books most likely since they haven't been a huge money success...

Garrett is a noir detective story in fantasy land and I'd say some of the books are barely worth the read, a few in the middelish part of the series but several of the early and few of the last ones the portrait (2-3?) one and the two last at the very least stand out.

As for A Cruel Wind and the rest of it I've really tried liking them but haven't succeded so far.

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#38 Pig Iron

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 09:29 PM

Instrumentalities and even Dread Empire can be slow. These are more fun IMHO:

Darkwar: Brutal trilogy about evil (?) psi-mage-kobold (?), dont spoil by reading too much about how the story progresses.

http://www.amazon.co...words=glen+cook

Dragon Never Sleeps: Space-opera that just gets larger in scope as it crashes on.

http://www.amazon.co...words=glen+cook

Starfisher Trilogy: Revenge space-opera with extra weirdness and if I remember correctly the revenge part gets lost somewhere in there, great fun anyway.

http://www.amazon.co...words=glen+cook