I think I shall code today but first a paean to Glen Cook's _The Black Company_pic.twitter.com/hWlXPnZIim
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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
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
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)
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 
Mostly they survive via a flexible definition of "survival"
I own the first two books,but I haven't read them yet. This review has made them climb higher on the list.
First one is fantastic, second one drags, third one makes working through the second worthwhile
sounds pretty anabasic to me ;)
I see it as proto-grimdark, before that was a really identified? Not heard of “low” fantasy before. (The setting seems to technically still be high fantasy—a not-Earth world/history.)
Hmmm it is kind of grimdark Hmmmm
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