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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Say one thing for Joe Abercrombie...
 
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Chronic Reagan
Oct 13, 2000

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SaviourX posted:

I'm going to throw in the dissenting opinion here and say that (in the first 120 pages of TBI), his prose was pretty weak, and the plot didn't grab me. That coupled with his 'I don't really read fantasy and I didn't write much before this' spiel already threw me off.
This comment is a couple of weeks old, but I agree. I've said it before, but The Blade Itself is a 500 page prologue. There's some great characters, but no real plot movement until the next two books. That said, the next two books (and Best Served Cold) deliver on everything you could want.

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Chronic Reagan
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Abercrombie will have a short story in the anthology 'Swords and Dark Magic' coming out in a couple of weeks for those in need of a fix before 'Heroes' comes out, along with some other unknowns like Michael Moorcock and Glen Cook.

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Chronic Reagan
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Decius posted:

Thanks a lot for the link, 10 seconds later I had it on my Kindle. Gotta love the Brave New World we're living in :D.
I just read the story yesterday. It's a nice little story about a band of misfits in the North. Curious to know if the characters are going to be featured in 'The Heroes', or if this story will have no bearing on the new book. It's relatively short (27 pages), so I'm not sure it's worth picking the book up unless you are interested in some of the other authors, too.

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