The annals of a mercenary company is exactly what it is.
Aemon Send a noteboard - 04/02/2010 05:30:57 AM
Aemon Send a noteboard - 04/02/2010 05:30:57 AM
It's not a story, it's a report. It's like reading the captain's logbook from a ship, or something. As far as flow, you're probably right. I don't really mean that it skitters around, it just doesn't give any detail, anywhere. I don't want prose spouting out of the blue (see my recent complaint on Hyperion for evidence) but you can't build excitement or suspense or any sort of emotion with clipped, terse, matter-of-fact, "need to know" sentences.
I need some reading recommendations...
- 03/02/2010 02:15:29 PM
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Glen Cook Black Company
- 03/02/2010 02:40:21 PM
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Heh. To each their own. I couldn't disagree more with those three.
- 03/02/2010 02:47:44 PM
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- 03/02/2010 02:47:44 PM
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One could question your sanity...
- 03/02/2010 02:51:26 PM
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Hrrrruuuuh? (that was a surprised Tim Allen noise, for those wondering)
- 04/02/2010 05:46:27 AM
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I guess if you want to read long flowery descriptions of every room entered thats a valid choice
- 03/02/2010 06:12:00 PM
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- 03/02/2010 06:12:00 PM
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I tried to read sword of shanara once.
- 03/02/2010 09:53:12 PM
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I loved sword of shanara
- 03/02/2010 10:23:42 PM
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Pft. I've got your back on Glen Cook, Random. Don't listen to this nutjob
*NM*
- 03/02/2010 09:57:44 PM
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*NM*
- 03/02/2010 09:57:44 PM
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Yeah, you're just crazy.
- 03/02/2010 11:06:34 PM
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- 03/02/2010 11:06:34 PM
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The annals of a mercenary company is exactly what it is.
- 04/02/2010 05:30:57 AM
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- 04/02/2010 05:30:57 AM
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I think the previous two posters have given you a ton of good stuff already, but a few more...
- 03/02/2010 04:36:02 PM
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cold fire trilogy
- 03/02/2010 06:33:31 PM
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I'd not toss all of RA Salvatore out the window. He writes outside DnD
- 03/02/2010 09:51:56 PM
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Since you love ancient history and majored in it...
- 03/02/2010 11:28:40 PM
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Didn't Gene Wolfe also do something set in Ancient Greece? Latro in the Mist, I believe?
- 03/02/2010 11:41:17 PM
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