Steve/Stacey said: "I was very surprised Tinnie was so unceremoniously dumped.  Worse, she
was dumped after she made a valiant effort at redefining herself to be
a better person and a better girlfriend.  I found Garrett's defection
from her despicable--for reasons of sex, it would seem.  He's never
been quite that shallow before:  Yes, he'll go with a girl for reasons
of sex, but he's never before hurt anyone so callously for that
reason."

Sorry, Steve/Stacey, don't see it that way at all. She wanted to rebuild him from the ground up.
I've know folks like that and you run screaming into the night. She made him give up almost
everything that made him Garrett. His friends, his house, his work. It was all about "Tinnie" and how GREAT she was and what a great person she was and what a bunch of losers his buddies were.

He did not "dump" her for a broad, he dumped her for his friends. Remember the one with all the
holes in him? Morley? Or the one with cancer? Playtime? Or the one that is struggling to keep his house going?
Or the one... ?  It was about reconntecting with with friends, after being guilted into pushing them away. Please note that the rich and powerful brewery owners were not unhappy. Nor was the underground crime grouping, or the Watch or the... well you get the idea. The only one that was upset and I didn't really get a sense of "I'll get you and your little dog too", was Tinnie, whom KNEW what she had done and was doing.

This one was, in my opinion, character driven, not supposed to be an action book. This is Garrett getting back to his roots and finding the weird and strange underbelly of the city.

Respects

Pat
 
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Ahhhh... I see the Screw-Up Fairy has visited us again.
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From: Steven Harris <harrissg@slu.edu>
To: Glen Cook: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author <glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com>
Sent: Mon, November 22, 2010 2:48:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Glencook-fans] SPOILERS Gilded Latten Bones

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Michele Riccio <mishka_30@yahoo.com> wrote:
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I was very surprised Tinnie was so unceremoniously dumped.  Worse, she
was dumped after she made a valiant effort at redefining herself to be
a better person and a better girlfriend.  I found Garrett's defection
from her despicable--for reasons of sex, it would seem.  He's never
been quite that shallow before:  Yes, he'll go with a girl for reasons
of sex, but he's never before hurt anyone so callously for that
reason.

I really think we were owed a show-down scene; but that's promised for
the future, I suppose.

That's of a piece with so bloody much of the action being off-stage.
I found that very unsatisfying.

And who is that squid guy--an undead member of the sorcerer's family?  Who? Why?

Way too many loose ends in this book.  I was thoroughly unsatisfied by
it.  One of the worst in the series.

Steve/Stacey

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