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Joe Abercrombie
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December 31, 1974
in Lancaster, England, The United Kingdom
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Over the last few days I’ve been reading Joe Abercrombie’s seminal work of modern fantasy, The Blade Itself. Alright, I confess, I have read it before. About 90 times. In fact there’s probably no significant body of text that I’ve read more times. In a week this book will have been published six years ago. Which means I was making the first (probably now unrecognisable) efforts at writing the f...
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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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2006
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Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
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2007
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Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
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2008
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Best Served Cold
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2009
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The Heroes
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2011
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The First Law Trilogy
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Audio - Before they are hanged
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Audio - The Blade Itself
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Audio - Last argument of kings
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Vampires, Thieves and Griffins
by Joe Abercrombie, Philip Palmer, Lilith Saintcrow (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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“Has it ever occured to you, Master Ninefingers, that a sword is different from other weapons? Axes and maces and so forth are lethal enough, but they hang on the belt like dumb brutes. But a sword...a sword has a voice.
Sheathed it has little to say, to be sure, but you need only put your hand on the hilt and it begins to whisper in your enemy's ear. A gentle word. A word of caution. Do you hear it?
Now, compare it to the sword half drawn. It speaks louder, does it not? It hisses a dire threat. It makes a deadly promise. Do you hear it?
Now compare it to the sword full drawn. It shouts now, does it not? It screams defiance! It bellows a challenge! Do you hear it?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
Sheathed it has little to say, to be sure, but you need only put your hand on the hilt and it begins to whisper in your enemy's ear. A gentle word. A word of caution. Do you hear it?
Now, compare it to the sword half drawn. It speaks louder, does it not? It hisses a dire threat. It makes a deadly promise. Do you hear it?
Now compare it to the sword full drawn. It shouts now, does it not? It screams defiance! It bellows a challenge! Do you hear it?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
“Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
“Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
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