Say this for Joe Abercrombie's novels: they're distinct. Easily identifiable. Only a few pages in, and you know you're in the warped mind of the master.
Must be all that glorious torture porn. Because if someone's not being tortured in the first five pages of an Abercrombie novel, you need to immediately return it to your point of purchase for a refund. Likely one of those pod aliens has abducted Joe and left a simulacrum behind.
All that said, one hundred pages into Best Served Cold and I'm enjoying myself immensely. Go torture porn!
The First 100 - Joe Abercrombie's "Best Served Cold" (Orbit)
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Posted by Paul at 11:47 AM
Labels: First 100, Joe Abercrombie
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I expect delivery of my copy within next week. This is the second time in 2009 where I ordered the hardcover of a book - the other one have been "Nights of Villjamur" by Mark Charan Newton. To my surprise the "Best Served Cold" hardcover at Book Depository UK is cheaper than the German paperback edition which will be published in November. Can't wait to start reading....
It's a good 'un :)
Just posted my review here:
http://www.keepingthedoor.com/2009/08/16/joe-abercrombies-best-served-cold-a-review/
Renai
Hmmm I wouldn't describe an Abercrombie novel as torture porn. The implication being it is like a bad modern slasher flick. If I were going with a movie analogy I would compare it to a quentin tarantino film. There is violence, a lot of violence, but it is there to make a point not just for it's own sake.
Hmmm...I have to disagree with Craig...I feel like this book did have some violence just for violence's sake (mostly just in the last part of the book though)...
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