- ISBN13: 9781591025948
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Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields o… More >>
#1 by natalia bardaji on April 16, 2010 - 10:58 pm
This book has one of the most stupid sentence I have read in a book . Jezal say in page 68 “he couldn’t afford to be seen walking.. with a fat girl on his arm. I’t could ruin his reputation”.
As a fat girl I thanks mister Abercrombie ,because I not going to buy the other two books , perhaps if a fat girl like me read his books could ruin his reputation .
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Ellen J. Espenshade on April 16, 2010 - 11:20 pm
I bought this book from the Science Fiction Book Club and returned it without finishing the book. The swearing was excessive and offensive, and I found the writing to be very crude. So, not only did the book not have any fluidity in writing, but I found myself annoyed with what I was reading. Usually the SFBC gives a warning about excessive swearing, but they must have discontinued that practice, since there was no warning. So, I hope this will help other readers to be aware of the language in this book before purchasing.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by B. Clark on April 17, 2010 - 12:11 am
Books one and two are great pieces of work. Very impressive. Book three is a joke on the consumer. There is no ending. You’ve been warned.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Abraham Douglas on April 17, 2010 - 2:50 am
The first book in Joe Abercrombie’s “The First Law” series, entitled The Blade Itself, will feel very familiar to most veteran fantasy readers because it is essentially a duller version of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books. Without too much effort it is probably possible to match up each character in Abercrombie’s book with one of Martin’s characters (Abercrombie’s tortured torturer Sand dan Glokta and Martin’s beloved imp, Tyrion Lannister, are only the most obvious). The setting of a British isles inspired medieval land is also generally the same, as is the vague menace in the North and a variety of other plot parallels. Usually a comparison to Martin would be glowing praise, but in this case, Abercrombie does a C or C- job of mimicry at best. The dialogue fizzles, the plot is ponderous and without twists, the villains are not particularly compelling and neither are the heroes. In fact Abercrombie, despite packing his novel with torture, blood, romance, swordplay and magic, manages to turn out a boring and completely forgettable addition to the fantasy genre. The only high point in the whole book is Glotka’s two dentists speech, but it is short and the meme of toothlessness is otherwise beaten to death. I have nothing against Abercrombie’s use of the sincerest form of flattery itself, but the copy must still hold some weight on its own and not make the reader want to simply put it down half-way-through and pick up the original.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by S. Nitschke on April 17, 2010 - 4:13 am
I read book one, and I have the other two waiting. I sure hope that all that setting up everything for each and ever character in great and lengthy detail pays off down the road, but I am not holding out much hope. This was a long drawn out set up for something that I fear is not going to happen.
I am reading book two and so far it seems much of the same as The Blade Itself.
Not really worth the time unless you are really in need of something to do to pass some time.
Rating: 2 / 5