Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!SUTHERLAND@TL-20A.ARPA From: SUTHERLAND@TL-20A.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Wounded Land Series... Message-ID: <2372@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 10:28:05 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2372 Posted: Tue Jun 25 10:28:05 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 01:58:44 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 27 From: Dean SutherlandJim Gardner says: > Second reason. NOBODY in any branch of literature (that I have > read) can match Donaldson for vileness. Everyone else is a > bush-leaguer compared to him: constantly despicable protagonists > surrounded by even worse antagonists with just enough virtuous > characters on the periphery to make the others seem worse in > contrast. Try Glen Cook's "Black Company" trilogy (The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and The White Rose). The Black Company of the title is a mercenary company trying to survive and fulfill their contracts (in that order). They are working for one of the most evil types I have run across in a long time. Their job is to put down a rebellion. Most things, however, are not what they seem (of course), but it still takes until the third book of the trilogy to meet anyone who might be accurately described as a "goodguy". The series is VERY bleak, but it is good reading. Unlike TC, it has no great literary pretensions. Instead it is a quality piece of workmanship; a good read with at least a few well developed characters. I recommend it for anyone who is not easily depressed. Dean F. Sutherland (sutherland@Tartan.ARPA)