The Company in Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy"

Aug 28, 2014 Chris Haught rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fof-reads

So how do I review this? Hmmm. I think I'll begin by warning off those that might want to read this without any expectations going in. I won't post spoilers per se, but I will be addressing the flow of this book, beginning to end.

That said,

What in the actual fuck? There, I feel better for having said that. Truth is, after finishing that I wanted to tear my copy to shreds, stomp on them, and kick the scraps into a firepit with the heat of a thousand hells blazing through it.

So yeah. What the holy ...more

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Sep 18, 2017 Joseph rated it really liked it · review of another edition

There were six boys from the village who all left (for one reason or another) to join the army. Naturally, being young men of no particular stature and with no particular connections, they were assigned to a unit performing particularly difficult duty with a particularly low survival rate; nonetheless, four of them came back.

Now, several years later, a fifth (Teuche Kunessin, who stayed in the army and rose to general) has also returned, and he has an Idea for the men in his old unit -- there's ...more

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Sep 12, 2021 Jason Waltz rated it did not like it

Worst misleading cover blurb of all time. Nothing akin to THE ITALIAN JOB outside the word 'con' (which in this case is pulled entirely on you the reader), but do remember how pissed you were at the end of LOST, about the futility of it all and all the wasted involvement, time, energy, thought, as it is exactly like that. Here's the summary: About 400 pages of a diary from a pilgrim coming to a new land, a la,
Day 3: sacrificing all for a new home, heading to sea.
Day 15: terrible waves, just push ...more

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