Joe Abercrombie fans: Best Served Cold Movie
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The Heroes is my favorite of them all. Simple story but the writing and characters are so good.
The second trilogy is good too.
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I just banged out the Age of Madness trilogy. Finished A Little Hatred 1/10, The Trouble with Peace 1/13, and The Wisdom of Crowds yesterday 1/16. Needless to say, I'm deep in the bag for this world and I think it's the best realistic fantasy since GoT. I think it's better than the Thrones books, I think Joe is a better writer, and I cannot wait for the next trilogy to find out what happens with the characters from the Age of Madness.
I think it's no contest better than Sanderson but I'm not a huge fan of his. I have read his Wheel of Time stuff, the Arclight stuff, and Mistborn. As others have said it's just different. Sanderson is high high high fantasy. If you want to read a thrilling aerial battle where people have glowing swords and they are creating all kinds of chaos and they have supernatural abilities it's probably as good as it gets. You probably have to read 600 pages to get to that stuff which is my problem with it.
Ultimately I love his characters, and without giving any plot points away my brain will be thinking about Ninefingers and his duel in the circle, the Dogman, Orso, Rikke, Glokta, and all of them probably until I die hopefully many years from now.
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Start with the Blade Itself. That's the first book in the First Law Trilogy and sets up the world and politics, and also introduces some characters that will feature in the rest of the books
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After that series, the chronological order is Best Served Cold, The Heroes, Red Country, followed by the Age of Madness trilogy.
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Well said, regarding his characters. Abercrombie does such a good job of imbuing them with such a sense of "weariness" for lack of a better word. So many of them just possess a sense of resignation to their path in life, even if that path takes them to terrible places and has them committing terrible acts. GRRM certainly has some of that in A Song of Ice and Fire, but Abercrombie just lives in that mentality.
I love this site for threads like this and the geography thread (along with all of the Cyclones stuff of course).
I’ve needed a book series, and think I will give these a try. One question, does the author “pay off” the set up, or are they like GRRM and just keep building without really finishing (don’t tell me the TV series end was the pay off
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I’ve needed a book series, and think I will give these a try. One question, does the author “pay off” the set up, or are they like GRRM and just keep building without really finishing (don’t tell me the TV series end was the pay off
).
I love this site for threads like this and the geography thread (along with all of the Cyclones stuff of course).
I’ve needed a book series, and think I will give these a try. One question, does the author “pay off” the set up, or are they like GRRM and just keep building without really finishing (don’t tell me the TV series end was the pay off
Yes, yes, and yes.
I finished the second trilogy yesterday, and man there was a lot of closure, some of it emotionally devastating, some of it funny. It does feel like an ending. However I cannot wait for the next entry in the series.
I saw Abercrombie has a book coming out this year... not in the First Law world. And I'm a little bummed.
