New Review: Glen Cook's The Black Company
February 27, 2002 (7:20 PM) ( link )

ADDED a review of Glen Cook's The Black Company. Whew—what a depressing book. In order to make up for it, I'm going to be reading Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, a childhood classic that I remember fondly.

The next few days should see a couple of graphic novel reviews coming up, including Daniel Quinn's The Man Who Grew Young and possibly another Authority book by Warren Ellis. After that I will seriously hunker down with An Equal Music.

Borges's Ficciones continues. I really, really liked "The Babylonian Lottery" and "The Library," both of which were fascinating ideas with equally fascinating extrapolations. I almost wish, though, that Borges had fleshed out his ideas more; right now, they seem sort of slight, stated as baldly as they are. The story I'm currently on ("Funes") is completely baffling. I don't think I like it. Ultimately Ficciones is turning out to be something of a mixed bag, and my opinion of it as a whole is not particularly favorable. But maybe I just don't understand the deeper significances of everything Borges is writing? Who knows.