this is a book about Male Friendship it incidentally passes the bechdel test and contains fascinating examples of female intrasexual competition that lead to great bloodshed but mostly it is a wonderful book about male friendship
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The Black Company was an early book that falls into the low fantasy genre The narrator is a physician and chronicler for a mercenary company The Company is mundane in a war of demigods They survive only by their wits, playing one dark lord against another, and by brotherhood
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Do you dislike stories with combat? This book is not for you Every chapter is a battle, large or small Or downtime between battles where the boys play cards, prank each other, and run various entertaining schemes at the expense of their enemies
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The most striking part I think is the way that the Company's hierarchy is depicted Cook just /gets/ the way men see and interact with each other in a male homosocial space The dialogue, the hierarchical tensions, the masculine care and respect are all spot on
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Femininity intrudes occasionally, from a masculine perspective: women are loved desperately, hated deeply, protected ferociously, or feared viscerally Or, as they operate in a masculine mode, accorded respected as men are (eg, the general Whisper)
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If you're a guy you should read this because it's fucking fun If you're a woman, consider it as an ethnographic exercise (and also extremely fun) That's all enjoy your day
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Croak on.
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Just started reading the first book today...
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Interesting, so you're going to code. Somehow, sometime ago, programming became coding, probably when I was not paying attention, which is most of the time. or am I wrong and there is a difference. Once I programmed for fun, not profit, but gave up after C++ became a thing, and
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marriage, marriage messed that up, and a kid... that too, so I quit work, became Mr. Mom and planted a small orchard and some grapes instead.
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