Before The Black Company Glen Cook Created The Dread Empire
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I really enjoy your analysis. I just discovered Glen Cook’s ‘The Black Company’ last year. Keep it up, brother. 👍🏼
I really appreciate it!
Stephen hoye was a great choice for narrator of the audiobooks
Yes he was. They were wonderful. He is Bragi in my mind. Even when I read my hardcover copies of the books.
If you have read Dread Empire and also like Glen’s short story collections, I really recommend reading the essay he added to a collection called “Writing Fantasy Heroes.”
I have never heard of that. I will look that up right now.
Thanks!
@@JosephReadsBooks you’re welcome. He’s my favorite author, so I’ve read just about everything there is(except for his first published book, which has been basically impossible to find.)
i just bought the black company, now i wish i bought the dread empire lol . great video
Thank you!
You should definitely read The Black Company first. I love that series so much I have a Black Company tattoo.
The Black Company series is his masterpiece..
But everything he writes is good. Just wait until you see my Garrett P.I. series overview 😎.
Dread Empire is my favorite Glen Cook, but I always describe it as “the Glen Cookiest of Glen Cook.”
That is a good way to describe it.
I'm just here to save this to watch later, because I haven't finished putting together my thoughts for my videos on the series yet. Once I'm done and can't be influenced anymore . . . . I'll be back to fanboy 🤣
Sounds good! 😂
@@JosephReadsBooks I finally finished filming the last video I wanted to make, lol. Man you really hit the nail on the head.
The Dread Empire parts really did feel the sloggiest of the entire series, I thought that was just me.
100% agree that A Fortress in Shadow should be read first before A Cruel Wind - I feel like that will just make the buy in that much more likely for most readers.
I actually liked the malevolent ex machina thing you mentioned - by that point in the story it just felt to me like it needed a tactical nuke equivalent to really stir things up.
Also, I skipped An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat! I don't have a good track record with anthologies that tie into series I enjoy - they never seem to work well for me. I did find out about the 24 year delay though, that's sick - imagine being a fan of the series back in the day and waiting literally a quarter of a century before a finale shows up.
All in all, I really loved this. More than the Black Company? I can't say, been too long since I read those. But a lot of the things in Malazan I enjoyed early on are rife in here, so it's inevitable.
I never read Dread Empire. I got into Cook when I was at Jungle School in the 90s and the Stars and Stripes had The Silver Spike in stock. A weird place to start since it's an interstitial book and ties up some character stories from the first Black Company trilogy. It hooked me, though. I've been a fan since. I love his Garrett books too because I've been a fan of Golden Age and Hardboiled Detective books since I was a kid. Having a Nero Wolfe homage in a fantasy setting was great. I've read all the Rex Stout Nero Wolfe, so it was especially enjoyable. He's probably my top eccentric detective character.
The Garrett P.I. series is so good! I have an overview for it coming out soon.
I will definitely keep an eye out for some books written by Rex Stout. I love detective novels.
The Black Company is one my favorites of all time! What are your thoughts on Instrumentalities of The Night? It was set up to be his best work but his publisher called it quits after the fourth book, sadly.
I have not read the series yet. I'm looking forward to starting it in a few months.
I dont mind being thrown in the deep end as long as explanations are forthcoming. One of my most recent writers is Duncan M Hamilton's Middle Sea books.... Hamilton does world building as you go along and the characters themselves discover nee aspects and truths about the world. Its probably one of the best ersatz Europe settings ive seen in decades of reading.. and i love thay its much more based on 15th and 16th century instead of the 11th to 13th centuries of most fantasy.
You figure things out as the story goes on. He just doesn't spoon feed any info.
@JosephReadsBooks Cook was one of my first fantasy authors and I've yet to dislike any of his books. Started reading him when I was I was ten (52 now). He's oddly overlooked by a lot of fantasy fans that I talk to today.
@@weylins Cook being overlooked is the reason I have dedicated this year to reading all of his books and sharing them with as many people as I can.
I know people will love his work if they give him a chance.
The Dread Empire does not get enough attention. I have not started them, but I picked them up (along with some other Glen Cook books) when I was going through the Black Company and it took me forever to figure out if they share a world with Black Company or was it own thing. I think you could have said more about plot, I gather it's about a magical empire over thirty-five years. Anyway, I just rearranged them on my bookshelf to their chronological order, as you suggested, so when I do get to them they're properly ordered. Good video, I was excited when I saw the Dread Empire in the title.
Great video! I enjoyed the fire in the hands! I love to see the middle east influence. I wonder what real world religion influenced the religion in the book. I think it's partially Islam.
I think he threw all three Abrahamic religions together but I think the biggest inspiration is Islam.
So, last year I reread The Black Company, Garret P.I., Garret P.I., The Dread Empire, The Black Company, and then Garret P.I. ... yeah ... I read the Garrett series 3 times ... granted, i was working at a furniture store that got no business so i didn't have much else to do, or money to spend on new books ...
Wow! You're my new hero.
Which Garrett novels did you enjoy the most?
@@JosephReadsBooks That's a tough one because it's kinda more about character moments for me. Like, "Old Tin Sorrows" isn't my favorite, but I love the moment when Garrett asks Dotes if he's ever backed out of a contract, and the strange emotional connection he finds, and then the final two lines. I love how Garrett initially describes Tunfaire as being unchanging, but then the city has its own character development starting with "Red Iron Nights". The Dead Man's obsession with a foreign mercenary in a distant and generations long war, and how the outcomes are shaping the politics and economy of the Tunfaire. Garrett's overcoming of his prejudices towards a certain class with the introduction of a favorite character in "Fade Steel Heat", and how important she becomes (personally and professionally), and her people become in the later half of the series. "Petty Pewter Gods" gives us Lovecraftian horrors, and Garrett giving a pet name to a Goddess of Destruction, and "Angry Lead Skies" introduces a fun sci-fi element that evolves the city further. And the way the unspoken brotherhood between Garrett and Dotes comes to the forefront in the final two books. The way a man, orphaned by war like so many others in his city, finds a family. Pular Singh, the Ratgirl (What's the only thing lower than a Ratman's dog?) saying, "This is family. I will be here for the planning and there for the kill" in a room full of aristocrats, and being welcomed in on it in "Wicked Bronze Ambition". But okay, pulling the trigger, I'll say "Red Iron Nights".
@@MaxLadik I'm reading Faded Steel Heat right now. I am struggling a bit with it(the pacing is not very good).
But I am enjoying the ride stuff you are talking about and it is nice to see Tinnie again.
Pretty Pewter Gods is my favorite so far.
@@JosephReadsBooks I know what you mean about the pacing in FSH, what really saves it for me is how it ties up a few dangling threads from previous books, and, of course, the introduction of one of my favorite characters. On the subject of PPG, I love how Maggie is basically Kina, but with an entirely different personality. It's also hilarious that Garrett's philosophy on gods is he just wants to ignore them in the hope that they will return the courtesy, but nope, best to forget all that wishful thinking!
Curb stomp the enemy team in the World Series and then gloat by wearing their hat in your youtube video
I collect on-field caps 😂.
I need 2 more and I have a complete set.