Dragaera

Literary Disappointments (was: The LKH thing)

S Lumley / s piotto spiotto at rogers.com
Sat Feb 22 08:44:38 PST 2003

>
> I put Glen Cook in that category. C'mon Glen, you've been rehashing the
> same Black Company book for two decades.
>

I've got to point out a few things here, even though I agree with the black
company quip. It has been the same book for damn near five years. I can't
even bring myself to read the last one and it's sat on my shelf for damn
near over a year.

However, Glen has done some amazing work with his private detective
character. the main reason for it being the sarcastic spin he puts on
Garrett along with the superb list of supporting characters. So while the
whole black company series seems to be winding into oblivion, the Garrett
series continues to get quite strong.

And I have to add that 'The Silver Spike' was one of the best books I ever
read. I heartily reccomend it to anyone on the list. It's on a par with
Issola, that's how good it is.

(Minor Spoiler... If you have read any of the Black Company books... you
will be STUNNED by what he does with some of the characters in this book.)

Scott