With no offense intended, I disagree about how enjoyable the books are when Croaker isn't really present. I think these books are fascinating in their own right for the reason that they serve an important function. A first person narrator has biases, and inevitably doesn't record "the truth" the way another person would. Seeing the company and its personalities through a variety of narrators sheds light on many of those characters. Cook is smarter than people sometimes realize. Lady in particular bent the truth in her volume. She was used to being powerful, and using people as tools. Once the seige of Dejagore was broken, for example, she claims she merely sent Murgen on a mission. In fact, we learn later from Murgen, she put a spell on him to breifly take over his will. It's little details like this that I find it fun to discover. As to "research," it's something I can't help but do, as I'm a natural born historian. I've actually written several books of World War 2 history, you can find my books under the name Marc Rikmenspoel on Amazon and similar sites. Gathering information and giving it too much thought is *fun* for me, no matter how On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Richard Chilton <rchilton@auracom.com>wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:53 AM, lance mortensen <lmortensen1@gmail.com>wrote:
He talks of continuing the Black Company series but not sure how well that will go. Croaker makes those books along with the Lady and I just can't see much comming of another book.
I agree that Croaker makes those books. The ones in which is largely absent from lack a certain something. He doesn't have to be the narrator (the one Lady narrated was wonderful, but the character has to be there.
Yes, I know that 'the character' of those books is the Company itself, but the Company only seems to live when Croaker's around.
Richard
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