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by FABIO 05/06/2009, 1:55am PDT |
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...keeping with the tradition that in settings where super powers are common place, sometimes common people are more interesting.
Black Company is basically a bunch of teamster mercenaries stuck in a cliched fantasy world. The closer a character follows a fantasy cliche, the dumber they are. The fun of the whole book stems from their cliche bosses and their cliche enemies being total idiots but the mercenary union just shrugging their shoulders because hey at least we're getting overtime. What would be a tiresome final ultimate fantasy battle becomes tense and fun at the same time.
Unfortunately, author Glenn Cook completely shits on what made the first book so fun. In the sequels, the stories become more and more serious fantasy and less satire until finally the final book takes place in Pern and everyone's riding magical whales or some garbage.
Pick up the first book, love it (skim past the parts with the "wacky" wizards), take it on good faith that the sequels suck. |
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