I just finished Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie.  There's a lot of bad reviews of it on Amazon but then, this is the Internet where fucktards are allowed to write on the walls and not kicked repeatedly in the face for doing so.  Basically, if you read the reviews you'll see a lot of "I didn't like it; it's too mean, it's nasty, people die, my ( Read more... )

For what seems like years, I've been glancing at the SciFi shelves and muttering "trash".  Silly names, beautiful witches or princesses or whatever, dire terror, humanity's last hope, yawn boring.  I had thought the only bright spot in an otherwise dreary landscape of crap was George RR Martin.

I was wrong.

I just ploughed halfway through The Blade ( Read more... )

All you JK Rowling fans probably already knew about this, right?

Personally, it doesn't float my boat but just in case you didn't, well, you do now.