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Never Dead Ned has died 49 times but can't seem to stay dead. Afraid of death, anyway, he found a safe niche as an accountant for Brute's Legion. Upper management transfers him to command Ogre Company, the legion's dumping ground. He has one advantage over previous commanders: no matter what accident befalls, he comes back alive. And then he finds out why he never stays dead, after which he has to go to any length not to die again. That's harder than it seems when commanding such stellar specimens as a two-headed ogre, an orc who's oversensitive about looking like a goblin, a daredevil pilot goblin (and the not very trainable rocs he flies), a siren, a temperamental Amazon, and an oracle who hears and smells the future. Still, he has six months to whip Ogre Company into shape. Oh, for the love of Ned! Martinez's follow-up to Gil's All-Fright Diner (2005) is as joyfully fast paced and funny. Ogre Company tweaks fantasy cliches most excellently. Regina Schroeder
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"Martinez's follow-up to "Gil's All Fright Diner" is as joyfully fast paced and funny. Ogre Company tweaks fantasy clich?'s most excellently."--"Booklist" on "In the Company of Ogres"
"Martinez's broad humor should appeal to fans of the late Douglas Adams and other contemporary authors of comic fantasy."--"Library Journal" on "In the Company of Ogres" "[A] terrific debut. . . . Fans of Douglas Adams will happily sink their teeth into this combo platter of raunchy laughs and ectoplasmic ecstasy."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) on "Gil's All Fright Diner"
"Do you know a young man twelve to seventeen years old who hates reading? Then this is the book for him!"--"Voices of Youth Advocates "on "Gil's All Fright Diner
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"Can a vampire find true love with a ghost? Can a teenage witch open the gates of Hell? Anything can happen in Martinez's wacky debut."--Charlaine Harris, bestselling author of "Dead to the World "on" Gil's All Fright Diner"
"Martinez's broad humor should appeal to fans of the late Douglas Adams and other contemporary authors of comic fantasy."--"Library Journal" on "In the Company of Ogres" "[A] terrific debut. . . . Fans of Douglas Adams will happily sink their teeth into this combo platter of raunchy laughs and ectoplasmic ecstasy."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) on "Gil's All Fright Diner"
"Do you know a young man twelve to seventeen years old who hates reading? Then this is the book for him!"--"Voices of Youth Advocates "on "Gil's All Fright Diner
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"Can a vampire find true love with a ghost? Can a teenage witch open the gates of Hell? Anything can happen in Martinez's wacky debut."--Charlaine Harris, bestselling author of "Dead to the World "on" Gil's All Fright Diner"
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Das Buch bekommt von mir vier Sterne, weil es ein klein wenig schwächer als "Gil's All Fright Dinner" von Martinez ist, aber immer noch ein Heidenspaß.
Die allzu menschlichen Nöte der wenig menschlichen Protagonisten sind originell, unterhaltsam geschrieben und meist spannend.
Der lakonische Umgang mit einem Genre, dass sich und seine Figuren oft sehr ernst nimmt, macht Lust auf mehr.
Wer eine ernste Fantasy Geschichte erwartet, ist hier sicher falsch. Wer in eine Fantasy Welt eintauchen möchte, in der Neid, Eifersucht, Geltungsdrang, Narzissmus und ein Held, der pausenlos zu Tode kommt (Never Dead Ned - sic!), im Vordergrund stehen, wird reich entlohnt.
Die allzu menschlichen Nöte der wenig menschlichen Protagonisten sind originell, unterhaltsam geschrieben und meist spannend.
Der lakonische Umgang mit einem Genre, dass sich und seine Figuren oft sehr ernst nimmt, macht Lust auf mehr.
Wer eine ernste Fantasy Geschichte erwartet, ist hier sicher falsch. Wer in eine Fantasy Welt eintauchen möchte, in der Neid, Eifersucht, Geltungsdrang, Narzissmus und ein Held, der pausenlos zu Tode kommt (Never Dead Ned - sic!), im Vordergrund stehen, wird reich entlohnt.
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A. Lee Martinez brings another huge bunch of fun to the discerning reader.
This measure of science fiction and fantasy should please everybody, as long as one likes this fantastical and relatively strange stuff ;-) If you are a reader of Asprin, you may know what I mean. And it's still a lot better than just about anything else currently written in that vein.
This measure of science fiction and fantasy should please everybody, as long as one likes this fantastical and relatively strange stuff ;-) If you are a reader of Asprin, you may know what I mean. And it's still a lot better than just about anything else currently written in that vein.
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"And we don't want another @$$hole! We want Ned!!!"
28. August 2006
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He may not be as famous as Stephen King or John Grisham, but A. Lee Martinez is a writer to watch. His first novel _Gil's All Fright Diner_ is a hilarious romp that combines pseudo-Lovecraftian menace with Joe R. Lansdale styled blue collar humor. So I waited and waited for his next novel _In the Company of Ogres_ to arrive at my local Barnes and Noble. The wait was worth it.
While _GAFD_ pretty well parodized horror, _ItCoO_ parodizes fantasy. I'm not really a fantasy fan (nothing against it, it's just not for me), but I couldn't resist giving Martinez another chance even if the genre is one I don't normally read. Even though I consider myself much more of a horror fan, I found _ItCoO_ to be the more enjoyable of the two. It's funnier and has a more complex and thought out plot.
The main character here is an average person named Never Dead Ned, a man who is unexceptional in every way except for the fact that he dies repeatedly, and comes back to life shortly after. He's a soldier with a perfectly average job of balancing the books for Brute's Legion. Just when he finds his niche in accounting, he is immediately transferred to Ogre Company. Ogre Company is a rowdy band of orcs, goblins, trolls, elves, treefolk, humans, and obviously ogres. It also happens to be the most undisciplined, and hardest drinking, unit in the whole Legion. He now has six short months to whip these sad sacks into fighting shape. This task is further complicated by the fact that Ned isn't that great of a soldier himself.
However, his poor military bearing is not his only problem. Every Commander before him has perished in clandestine circumstances. And once he learns the reason for his multiple deaths and resurrections, he has to try harder than ever to stay alive for not only himself - but the whole universe. Once he learns this secret, he is pursued by a vengeful wizard and a power-hungry pint-sized demon.
Having read a couple of interviews of Martinez, he says that his two novels are not so humor fiction as they are fiction with humorous elements. Be that as it may, I found both books extremely funny. Let me give you a couple of examples of the humor you'll find in _ItCoO_. There is a blind oracle, who claims he can't read minds, who can somehow answer questions even before the whole question has been uttered. This would of course create a paradox. The second is an instance in which the morning bugler can't put enough oomph, pizzazz, or shebang into the morning wakeup call. That's just two examples. There's much more where that came from.
As it happens so often, I find myself playing the waiting game again. Martinez has a third novel due out sometime in 2007 entitled _The Nameless Witch_. There's not I can tell you here, except that the humor will take a more subtle direction. Yet if one truly likes an author, one appreciates the fact the author has to do different things now and then.
BRING ON THE THIRD BOOK!!! AND THE FOURTH!!! AND THE FIFTH!!! AND...
While _GAFD_ pretty well parodized horror, _ItCoO_ parodizes fantasy. I'm not really a fantasy fan (nothing against it, it's just not for me), but I couldn't resist giving Martinez another chance even if the genre is one I don't normally read. Even though I consider myself much more of a horror fan, I found _ItCoO_ to be the more enjoyable of the two. It's funnier and has a more complex and thought out plot.
The main character here is an average person named Never Dead Ned, a man who is unexceptional in every way except for the fact that he dies repeatedly, and comes back to life shortly after. He's a soldier with a perfectly average job of balancing the books for Brute's Legion. Just when he finds his niche in accounting, he is immediately transferred to Ogre Company. Ogre Company is a rowdy band of orcs, goblins, trolls, elves, treefolk, humans, and obviously ogres. It also happens to be the most undisciplined, and hardest drinking, unit in the whole Legion. He now has six short months to whip these sad sacks into fighting shape. This task is further complicated by the fact that Ned isn't that great of a soldier himself.
However, his poor military bearing is not his only problem. Every Commander before him has perished in clandestine circumstances. And once he learns the reason for his multiple deaths and resurrections, he has to try harder than ever to stay alive for not only himself - but the whole universe. Once he learns this secret, he is pursued by a vengeful wizard and a power-hungry pint-sized demon.
Having read a couple of interviews of Martinez, he says that his two novels are not so humor fiction as they are fiction with humorous elements. Be that as it may, I found both books extremely funny. Let me give you a couple of examples of the humor you'll find in _ItCoO_. There is a blind oracle, who claims he can't read minds, who can somehow answer questions even before the whole question has been uttered. This would of course create a paradox. The second is an instance in which the morning bugler can't put enough oomph, pizzazz, or shebang into the morning wakeup call. That's just two examples. There's much more where that came from.
As it happens so often, I find myself playing the waiting game again. Martinez has a third novel due out sometime in 2007 entitled _The Nameless Witch_. There's not I can tell you here, except that the humor will take a more subtle direction. Yet if one truly likes an author, one appreciates the fact the author has to do different things now and then.
BRING ON THE THIRD BOOK!!! AND THE FOURTH!!! AND THE FIFTH!!! AND...
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A New Plot!
27. Dezember 2006
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In the Company of Ogres is the second A. Lee Martinez novel I've run into. Gil's All Fright Diner was the first, and I quite liked it as a new look at the generally-tired vampire/were-wolf genre. He does the same thing with ogres/orcs/magical animals in Company of Ogres - he comes up with a new way of approaching it.
The first fifth of the book is a bit standard, as it has to be. Mostly introductions to the scene, the characters and a bit of back-story. And the rest of the book falls generally into the "Fish Out Of Water, With Diverse Motley Friends" category. The same thing as the Doc Savage books of 60 years ago, as the Mad Scientist Club, a zillion live-action 70s Disney movies (e.g. Bad News Bears), any movie placed at a summer camp (e.g. Meatballs), "Up Periscope", the Ebenuzum books by Craig Shaw Gardner, Friends/Cheers/Night Court... it's again not unique, but heavily used.
And yet, despite all this, the book is still filled with surprises and is a very fun read.
Compared to other books in this genre, this one is a bit longer than most (although it certainly doesn't feel long - it feels just right), and is a breezy fun read. It doesn't have the puns and literary references of Terry Pratchett, but then again, neither did Pratchett's first few books. I am eagerly awaiting the next Martinez book.
The first fifth of the book is a bit standard, as it has to be. Mostly introductions to the scene, the characters and a bit of back-story. And the rest of the book falls generally into the "Fish Out Of Water, With Diverse Motley Friends" category. The same thing as the Doc Savage books of 60 years ago, as the Mad Scientist Club, a zillion live-action 70s Disney movies (e.g. Bad News Bears), any movie placed at a summer camp (e.g. Meatballs), "Up Periscope", the Ebenuzum books by Craig Shaw Gardner, Friends/Cheers/Night Court... it's again not unique, but heavily used.
And yet, despite all this, the book is still filled with surprises and is a very fun read.
Compared to other books in this genre, this one is a bit longer than most (although it certainly doesn't feel long - it feels just right), and is a breezy fun read. It doesn't have the puns and literary references of Terry Pratchett, but then again, neither did Pratchett's first few books. I am eagerly awaiting the next Martinez book.
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One of the best comedy/fantasy novels I've ever read
2. Februar 2007
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I called Gil's All Fright Diner an excellent debut novel in my review of that book, and it is. But In The Company of Ogres is simply an excellent novel, period.
A passive main character is exceedingly difficult to write and keep interesting, but Mr. Martinez handled it with great aplomb. The other characters are equally intriguing, from the suicidal, yet perpetually cheerful goblins to the two-headed ogre who is always exceedingly polite with itself. Like Gil's, Mr. Martinez throws many fantasy conventions to the wind and creates a world that is both unique and familiar.
Even if you aren't a huge fan of fantasy fiction, In The Company of Ogres is a wonderful tale sure to delight anyone.
A passive main character is exceedingly difficult to write and keep interesting, but Mr. Martinez handled it with great aplomb. The other characters are equally intriguing, from the suicidal, yet perpetually cheerful goblins to the two-headed ogre who is always exceedingly polite with itself. Like Gil's, Mr. Martinez throws many fantasy conventions to the wind and creates a world that is both unique and familiar.
Even if you aren't a huge fan of fantasy fiction, In The Company of Ogres is a wonderful tale sure to delight anyone.
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