{"id":3446,"date":"2009-03-01T14:36:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:17:00","slug":"heating-up-best-served-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/heating-up-best-served-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Heating Up <em>Best Served Cold<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3463\" title=\"best-cold-final1\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/best-cold-final1.jpg\" alt=\"best-cold-final1\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/best-cold-final1.jpg 450w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/best-cold-final1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Last Argument of Kings <\/em> (2008) turned out to be the best Sword-and-Sorcery novel I&#8217;ve read since David Gemmell&#8217;s <em>The Swords of Night and Day<\/em> back in 2004, the culmination of Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s tough love redemption of the oh-so-discredited concept of the fantasy trilogy. An interview displaying the relaxed humor that&#8217;s only found in a creator deeply serious about his creations is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3w8DGa6tSfM&amp;feature=related\">up at YouTube<\/a>; don&#8217;t be alarmed by the fact that it&#8217;s in five parts, as each is of little more than blink-and-you&#8217;ll-miss-it duration.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3476\" title=\"point_blank\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/point_blank.jpg\" alt=\"point_blank\" width=\"420\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/point_blank.jpg 420w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/point_blank-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Abercrombie reveals that John Boorman and Lee Marvin&#8217;s brass-knuck classic <em>Point Blank<\/em> and Machiavelli were the not-so-strange bedfellows that inspired his fourth novel <em>Best Served Cold<\/em> (to be released this summer), that he won&#8217;t be stinting on the &#8220;gruesomeness&#8221; any time soon, and that some of the secondary characters from <a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=2218\"><em>Last Argument of Kings<\/em> and its predecessors<\/a> show up in the new book without having been persuaded that an ascetic, contemplative, unilaterally disarmed life is best.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3466\" title=\"JAber\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/joe_abercrombie_colour_300dpi.jpg\" alt=\"JAber\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/joe_abercrombie_colour_300dpi.jpg 400w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/joe_abercrombie_colour_300dpi-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, it&#8217;s time to stop wondering about what happens to Brak when he finally reaches Khurdisan (my guess would be, he&#8217;s beaten senseless by guardsmen; that&#8217;s kind of his thing) and cease work on that lifelong project of creating a spreadsheet for the noun, verb, and adverb variations of every Richard Blade novel&#8217;s sex scenes. Instead, why not help Sword-and-Sorcery take a giant step into the 21st century by taking a chance on an Abercrombie novel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Argument of Kings (2008) turned out to be the best Sword-and-Sorcery novel I&#8217;ve read since David Gemmell&#8217;s The Swords of Night and Day back in 2004, the culmination of Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s tough love redemption of the oh-so-discredited concept of the fantasy trilogy. An interview displaying the relaxed humor that&#8217;s only found in a creator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-other-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16633,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/16633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}