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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I think I shall code today but first a paean to Glen Cook's _The Black Company_pic.twitter.com/hWlXPnZIim
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
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
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
I'm so desperate to read something positive about males as a social group, you just sold itpic.twitter.com/bQFh7F0v3M
Well I mean they are kind of bastards But good bastards Its a crapsack world they live in
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