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Subject: glencook-fans-digest V1 #144
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glencook-fans-digest Thursday, October 18 2001 Volume 01 : Number 144
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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:32:32 EDT
From: BHardy1968@aol.com
Subject: (glencook-fans) Reviews of the Black Company?
Folks,
On my 3rd read through of the series in about 4 years, I was wondering if
Cook is big enough to have reviews done of his works. I noted that there are
exerps (?) from Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal on the back of _Water
Sleeps_. Are those full reviews on anyone's website? (Naturally, they're
probably on the Publisher's and the Library's sites but I'm lazy enough to
want them both at one location.)
I noted some reviews on the "xmission.com/`shpshtr/gc" site but they seem
more of the "joe's website/Here's some books I like". Those are helpful and
appreciated but I'm more interested in what the publishing industry thinks of
the Black Company.
Granted, they're not as vital to western civilization as the latest Tom
Clancy or Robert Jordan tomes, nor will _Soldiers Live_ be an Oprah Book of
the Month....
But I think they're pretty damn cool!
Thanks.
Brian
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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:49:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Filippov <igor@osc.edu>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Reviews of the Black Company?
Robert Jordan writes bubble gum for blonde cheerleaders. I'm surprised
his name is even mentioned in this esteemed list.
Igor
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 BHardy1968@aol.com wrote:
> Folks,
> On my 3rd read through of the series in about 4 years, I was wondering if
> Cook is big enough to have reviews done of his works. I noted that there are
> exerps (?) from Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal on the back of _Water
> Sleeps_. Are those full reviews on anyone's website? (Naturally, they're
> probably on the Publisher's and the Library's sites but I'm lazy enough to
> want them both at one location.)
> I noted some reviews on the "xmission.com/`shpshtr/gc" site but they seem
> more of the "joe's website/Here's some books I like". Those are helpful and
> appreciated but I'm more interested in what the publishing industry thinks of
> the Black Company.
>
> Granted, they're not as vital to western civilization as the latest Tom
> Clancy or Robert Jordan tomes, nor will _Soldiers Live_ be an Oprah Book of
> the Month....
> But I think they're pretty damn cool!
>
> Thanks.
> Brian
>
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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 13:14:01 -0600
From: Eric Herrmann <shpshftr@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Reviews of the Black Company?
> Robert Jordan writes bubble gum for blonde cheerleaders. I'm surprised
> his name is even mentioned in this esteemed list.
This is not a discussion list for Robert Jordan.
Take your flame bait elsewhere or be unsubscribed.
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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:45:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: schew@interzone.com (Steve Chew)
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) books by Glen
Thanks Steve, nice info. It's pretty sad when your own agent
isn't a bit more enthusiastic about publishing your latest book. It
sounds like he needs a "non-sci-fi" agent for the police procedural
book.
The "fat book trilogy" sounds interesting though. :-)
Steve
>
>Well, turns out I did go to Archon on Saturday, and I spoke briefly with
>Glen. Points of interest:
>
>His new police-procedural book is called "The Butcher's Apprentice". He
>said his agent doesn't really like it--finds the characters engaging,
>but... He has no idea what will be done with the book.
>
>Besides the Garrett book coming out spring of 2002 ("Angry Lead Skies"),
>he expects one more--the last. I commented to him that what I have
>liked most in the 4 I've read (the first three plus "Faded Steel Heat",
>#9) is the political arc that develops in the series as a whole. He
>replied that he found the background increasingly of interest, and that
>it is the finishing up of that background political stuff that will
>constitute the end of the series.
>
>Missing copies of older Garretts? I'm afraid there's no good news from
>Glen: He says they're all out of print save for the most recent, and
>the only oldies he has are the first, "Sweet Silver Blues", and the one
>I picked up, "Dread Brass Shadows" (#5)
>
>About the Black Company: He said he knows just where he wants to take
>the story, but it's very much on the back burner, and he has no idea
>when he'll be able to get to it. Things with higher priority are the
>last Garrett book and the new trilogy he's contracted to write (a "fat
>book" trilogy).
>
>At the con, George R. R. Martin conducted an interview of Robert Jordan.
> The subject of long series came up, and Jordan commented that he'd seen
>a web-based poll asking the question, which of these do people think are
>likely to be completed first:
>
>a) Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series
>b) Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series
>c) King's "Dark Tower" series
>d) Cook's "Dread Empire" series (or maybe it was "Black Company"?)
>e) the heat death of the universe
>
>The poll thus far records (e) as having a 5-1 lead over any of the other answers...
>
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desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."
-- Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience"
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:13:08 -0600
From: Eric Herrmann <shpshftr@xmission.com>
Subject: (glencook-fans) Monthly Mailing List Info
The September mail archive has been posted to the website.
The August mail archive has been updated. (I forgot August has 31 days.)
France:
"R=EAves d'acier" by L'Atalante is now available.
(Wish I had a better scan of the cover.)
Germany:
"Goldfieber" by Goldmann Verlag is now available
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