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Old 04-29-2011, 10:32 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by zespectre View Post
The Black Company - Glen Cook
Meh... I remember feeling that this book was a little, um, disjointed the first time I read it. Though I still enjoyed it.

The re-reading still felt somewhat akin to driving over speedbumps. There's a certain amount of fun but I felt like it took a lot more effort than it should.

Honestly not a bad re-read but for "gritty military fiction" I think David Drake has a better style.
I enjoy David Drake books but he tends to lose me when the fighting starts as I can never picture where everyone is and what is going on. I've wondered if he does it on purpose as part of a 'fog of war' thing.

It's better in books that have maps but on ones that don't I just give up and don't even try to track what is going on, just read the story to see what happens.
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