false 400924 4 Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead. Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more... This omnibus edition comprises <i>The Black Company</i>, <i>Shadows Linger</i>, and <i>The White Rose</i>. 390335 2005 Chronicles of The Black Company (The Black Company / Shadows Linger / The White Rose) total:267|5:121|4:106|3:32|2:4|1:4| 267 1137 409 45 4 1 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 15:03:12 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 14:51:15 -0700 2009 Glen Cook drew me in, led me to fall in love with characters, and then let me down. This was a common theme as I read. The story would hook and reel me in, then suddenly I would lose interest or feel like the story was incomplete at parts and stop reading for a week or ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 16 10:52:48 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 10:52:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 18:31:23 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 18:49:12 -0700 2008 1
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The Black Company

The first thing I noticed when beginning the Black Company was that Glen Cook does not use alot of description. He leaves it up to the reader to form what the character...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 08:18:09 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 01 13:07:12 -0800 2008 1 My preferred fantasy is more of the “swords & sorcery” genre (Robert E. Howard in pa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 12:16:27 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 12:52:08 -0700 2008
Th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 10 18:21:11 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 23 18:48:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 28 11:55:56 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 13 00:24:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Sun Dec 16 20:10:01 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 20:22:46 -0800 2007 The Black Company, Shadows Linger and The White Rose--is a treat. Back when the books were first published, there was very little dark fantasy out there and so they were a great change from tales of prefect heroes on...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 12 05:31:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 11 12:04:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Apr 21 08:59:29 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 17:11:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=400924