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| Title | : | The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company #1) |
| Author | : | Glen Cook |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 319 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 1992 by Tor Fantasy (first published May 15th 1984) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Dark Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy |
Glen Cook
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 319 pages Rating: 3.94 | 38561 Users | 1815 Reviews
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Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find her... So begins one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age—Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company. Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Mention Books Supposing The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company #1)
| Original Title: | The Black Company |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Chronicles of the Black Company #1, Les Annales de la Compagnie Noire #1, The Books of the North #1 , more |
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Ratings: 3.94 From 38561 Users | 1815 ReviewsAssessment Based On Books The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company #1)
► DNF 42%. Shoot me, because it seemed that The Black Company was written for me : ✘ Morally ambiguous Plain bad heroes whose only rules are brotherhood's related and who don't shy away from almost any deed (they draw the line at killing children, but everything else is implicitly accepted - I'll let you think about what resides into their candid brains, haha). You gotta love antiheroes : when you start smiling because Aww, they didn't kill the kid, after all! you know that you're up for someQuick review: Think Malazan Book of the Fallen, but focusing only on the marines. Sounds good right?Especially given the fact that MBotF is one of my all-time favorite series and the marines were always my favorite parts. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I enjoyed this more, but I can't help but make the comparison and think it a good one. Don't ask me how my mind works, I obviously don't have a clue.The comparison also makes sense because this series was influential on Erikson's MBotF.
Before Abercrombie Before Lawrence... Before MartinThere was Cook.I loved The Black Company. It is dark, entertaining and funny with a hint of epic and it kept me enthralled until the end. It's about a group of people (with a particular set of skills :D) fighting for the employer of the day. These people are not good or bad. They are just people. Some are worse than others, but its all about your point of view. I mention this only, because I kept on wondering if I was backing the bad guys here.
This is my first read of 2017 and a hell of a book, if I may say.Very interesting aproach to a new fantasy world, this time we have a Company of mercenaries serving the bad Sorceress in a hundred year war.If I may say this looked like a Sven Hassel book with a dark fantasy background.The story it`s very grimm, it has some tones of humor, but overall the thing are deadly serious and people get killed all the time so I understand why Eriksson has said that this fantasy serie has single handedly
This was supposed to be a huge BR with heaps of peeps, only the book turned out to be a monumental pile of shite. Chapter #3 - This is where I'm giving up. I've been told the the following instalments are much better than this one, but, honestly, I just don't have time nor energy to even try. Also, I'm supposed to finish this bastard to actually go ahead with the story, thing is there are so many issues in the pages I've gone through, I just don't feel like that, I'd rather... I don't even know.
★★☆☆☆½ The following is a courtroom transcript from the ongoing criminal investigation into the matter of The Goodreads Collective v. Wrongreader 2.0. Please note: This is merely a preliminary hearing to determine if there is sufficient evidence against the defendant to carry this matter to trial.JUDGE: Will the defendant please rise . . . Mr. Wrongreader, I see here you have been informed of your right to have counsel present, but have chosen to wave that right. Is that correct, sir?
i thought this book was great. a strange kind of modern classic, one that influenced many other fantasy efforts by ushering in the genuine darkness, grittiness, and lack of wonder of the military novel. the writing is direct, unadorned, choppy - a soldier's perspective, i suppose. the novel jumps right in the middle of the action and makes no attempt to help readers out, assuming that they will eventually catch up. experiencing the lack of poetry and of justice, the anonymity of most of the
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