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Subject: glencook-fans-digest V1 #185
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glencook-fans-digest Monday, May 20 2002 Volume 01 : Number 185
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Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 13:52:23 -0500
From: "don" <dfgarcia@stic.net>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Deadly quicksilver lies
no not yet.
Don
"In time, what's deserved always gets served"- COC
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Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Deadly quicksilver lies
>
> In a message dated 4/27/02 10:57:56 PM, dfgarcia@stic.net writes:
>
> << Anybody know if this book is still in print. It is keeping me from
moving
> on in the series. >>
>
> You get one yet?
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 01:42:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Tygers <robotchas@yahoo.com>
Subject: (glencook-fans) Angry Lead Skies (spoilers)
Scroll down...
I just finished this. And, um...I love Glen Cook's
writing dearly but this was awful. Possibly even worse
than Petty Pewter Gods, which at least had a plot (as
I recall). This just rambled all over the place,
resolving nothing, answering none of the questions
raised, and dragged out a lot longer than it needed
to...(like Garrett capturing a bunch of aliens,
letting Casey go, then suddenly deciding he needed to
capture him again). Hell it read like a bad parody of
a Garrett book - he got knocked unconscious fifty or
sixty times and had a threesome with two little gray
aliens. Aside from chuckling at Garrett's tricycle
lust I didn't find any of this enjoyable - no surprise
revelations, no clever twists, no interesting
observations. The alien angle could have been
entertaining, but he did nothing new with them at all.
I can't imagine what a first-time Garrett reader would
get from it.
I think his publisher needs to stop pushing him to
write Garrett books and let him do other stuff
already. Cook's one of the very few authors on my "buy
everything" list, but this was clearly written to
fulfill an obligation and I doubt I'll buy another
Garrett book if they do one. After Faded Steel Heat I
thought he might be making a bit of a comeback (DBS
and RIN were just okay, DQL less so, and PPG was the
worst to date), but it seems the heat really has
faded. This was pointless filler that went exactly nowhere.
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:32:44 -0300
From: Richard Chilton <rchilton@auracom.com>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Angry Lead Skies (spoilers)
Robert Tygers wrote:
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> Scroll down...
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> I think his publisher needs to stop pushing him to
> write Garrett books and let him do other stuff
> already. Cook's one of the very few authors on my "buy
> everything" list, but this was clearly written to
> fulfill an obligation and I doubt I'll buy another
> Garrett book if they do one. After Faded Steel Heat I
> thought he might be making a bit of a comeback (DBS
> and RIN were just okay, DQL less so, and PPG was the
> worst to date), but it seems the heat really has
> faded. This was pointless filler that went exactly nowhere.
>
It was an interesting treatment of aliens in a fantasy genre, but it
will never be my favorite Gerrett book.
I see this book less as filler and more of setting the stage for the
next book. It wasn't so much that it lacked a plot but it was busy
handling the series spanning plots. As a stand alone book it suffered,
but the series will probably be better for it.
In a way it reminds me of one the classic Amber novels - You have
action, action, action then comes a book where all the main characters
met in the castle library and talk. Few new plot elements are
introduced, but mainy of the old ones are addressed. Little gaps are
filled in and the stage is set for the next bit.
In ALS we learned what was happening with many minor plot elements. The
mob boss who uses her father as sheild is cracking, the city is changing
and set to change big time, Garrett's finances are settled - little
things are being put into place.
Then again I could be wrong - the next book might not be written or if
it is then it might not build on this book. If that is the case then
this book would feel like filler.
Richard
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 20:40:59 EDT
From: Klobas@aol.com
Subject: (glencook-fans) Re: glencook-fans-digest V1 #184
The SFBC is releasing an omnibus entitled _The Black Company Goes South_ in
August. The book comprises _The Silver Spike_, _Shadow Games_ and _Dreams of
Steel_.
I'm sure most of us on the list already have copies of these books, but a
hardcover omnibus could be an attractive holiday gift.
Scott Klobas
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