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Joe Abercrombie - First Law trilogy

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  • 02-04-2011 2:03pm
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    Macca3000
    Registered Users Posts: 385 ✭✭


    Just saw this in a BOGOF offer in easons. Flicked through a few pages and kind of caught my attention. Can anyone recommend it? I've been out of fantasy/sci-fi books for quite a while now and need to make a return.

    Just worried it is in an BOGOF section in a shop that rarely does decent offers.


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    ixoy
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    120% recommend it - as would many others here. It's not your typical fantasy series - it's full of dark humour and nasty but entertaining characters (e.g. one of the leads is a self-deprecating hunchbacked torturer). It's a breath of fresh air from the farm boy prophecy cliché.

    As it happens I'm reading "Best Served Cold" (a one-off series set in the same 'verse), and it's reminding of how much fun Abercrombie is.


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    Corsendonk
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    +1 the above


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    Macca3000
    Registered Users Posts: 385 ✭✭Macca3000


    Cheers. Will get this next week. Looking forward to the "dark" side lol.


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    AnCapaillMor
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    Definately get, possibly the most brutally violent fantasy books i've ever read. Great story and some fantastic characters.


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    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    Macca3000 wrote: »
    Just saw this in a BOGOF offer in easons. Flicked through a few pages and kind of caught my attention. Can anyone recommend it? I've been out of fantasy/sci-fi books for quite a while now and need to make a return.

    Just worried it is in an BOGOF section in a shop that rarely does decent offers.

    As others have already said....great stuff!,not to be missed. Sand dan Glokta is one of my favourite fantasy characters. Logan ninefingers,Jezal dan luther.I miss them........damn if I had time I would love to reread them all.:(


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    Tyler MacDurden
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭Tyler MacDurden


    Great series, go for it. Satisfyingly dark and humorous, and almost certainly open to further sequels.
    At least I hope so, Logen's somewhat hasty exit left me frustrated. I'd like to see him and Ferro cross paths again.

    I'll pick up his other two when I'm in need of respite from Erikson's weightier tomes :D


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    Undergod
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    It's great, really cynical and darkly humorous. I've read the trilogy, finished Best Served Cold last week and just started on the most recent one, The Heroes.


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    Macca3000
    Registered Users Posts: 385 ✭✭Macca3000


    Picked up the first 2 today. Really looking forward to starting these. Should make an interesting couple of weeks.


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