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Joe Abercrombie
« on: March 04, 2014, 10:02:39 AM »
Looks like Joe will be coming to SDCC this year

I just started reading his stuff and I think I found something to keep me busy until the next GOT book comes out

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“Joe Abercrombie’s BEST SERVED COLD is a bloody and relentless epic of vengeance and obsession in the grand tradition, a kind of splatterpunk sword ‘n sorcery COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, Dumas by way of Moorcock. His cast features tyrants and torturers, a pair of poisoners, a serial killer, a treacherous drunk, a red-handed warrior and a blood-soaked mercenary captain. And those are the good guys … The battles are vivid and visceral, the action brutal, the pace headlong, and Abercrombie piles the betrayals, reversals, and plot twists one atop another to keep us guessing how it will all come out. This is his best book yet.”

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Re: Joe Abercrombie
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2014, 03:00:21 PM »
Cool I read his trilogy earlier this year on a friends recommendation. Really enjoyed them, but have not yet read the other 3 books. Can't decide who is better, Logan or Glokta

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Re: Joe Abercrombie
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Re: Joe Abercrombie
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2014, 08:11:49 PM »
I'm reading his stuff backwards, I read  "Some Desperado" , it was published in George R.R. Martin's "Dangerous Women" collection and Joe Abercrombie's was the first story . That story is a pre-quel to the "Red Country" which is one of the books that follows "The First Law" trilogy
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Re: Joe Abercrombie
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2014, 01:43:34 AM »
Is this the guy who owns a chain of clothing stores? I'd like to ask him why they don't carry large sized clothing for women.
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Re: Joe Abercrombie
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2014, 01:47:26 AM »
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Is this the guy who owns a chain of clothing stores? I'd like to ask him why they don't carry large sized clothing for women.

No, that's not him.

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Long story short, he's a British fantasy writer.
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Re: Joe Abercrombie
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2014, 03:45:02 PM »
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No, that's not him.

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Long story short, he's a British fantasy writer.

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“Severed heads never go out of fashion. Used sparingly and with artistic sensibility, they can make a point a great deal more eloquently than those still attached.”

 
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Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: What does that mean?

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Re: Joe Abercrombie
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2014, 06:52:41 PM »
Oh, how neat!  :D Thanks for the info. I've actually only read his short stories thus far but now I have a reason to get Best Served Cold off my "to-read" list before CC.

I admit I also tend to think of the clothing store when I read his last name haha