Tower of Fear

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Summary: Totally New Fantasy Fiction
Review: Cook has the ability to wright in a way that few others do. His plot twists in this book are particularly indepth. He creates a new world, completly diffrent from most fantasy fiction novels, it is a kind of Lorance of Arabia meets the Black Company. Cook takes a personl approach to the characters which makes the reader become more involved. The book is not the best Cook has ever written but it ranks up there (maybe the best story line). The book is a great read with several diffrent plot lines, a must for the Glenn Cook fan.

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Summary: My favorite Glen Cook novel
Review: Set in a city resembling Carthage during the Punic Wars, Cook has written a masterpiece of intrigue, patriotism and desperation surrounding the events after the fall of a great city. If you like your anti-heroes to be frighteningly competent, you'll love Azel. The novel is very dark and should please anyone who has read Mr. Cook's Garrett or Black Company novels.

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Summary: As complex and intricate as the Dune series in just one book
Review: The Tower of Fear perhaps the best example of Cooks ability to intertwine plots and scemes. The amazing thing is, that while he must have had to use a flow chart to create the thing, he tells the story(stories) in such a way that you don't need to see it for yourself. The intertwinning of the plots is ingenious, and yet totally logical at the same time. I have not seen such briliant insight into the minds and scemes of characters,combined with the often conflicting interelationships between characters/plots, since the Dune series. If you want to see what a literary master is, read this book!!!

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Summary: Suspenseful Fantasy novel
Review: This is a great, suspenseful, fantasy novel. The best novel Glen Cook has written (except maybe for the Black Company, the novel that begin his 10+ book series).

Rating:
Summary: Suspenseful Fantasy novel
Review: This is a great, suspenseful, fantasy novel. The best novel Glen Cook has written (except maybe for the Black Company, the novel that begin his 10+ book series).

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Summary: Craftsmanship and Art
Review: While most authors tend toward a creativity based either on the "art" behind prose, or the "craft" of storytelling, Glen Cook apparently decided to encompass both within this novel. In a genre that is possibly threadbared by overuse of quasimidieval settings (knights/English Castles/etc.), Cook developed a Jerusalem-like city that was completely believable from a socio-political viewpoint, and threw in economic, artistic, and philosophical elements as well. Artistically, the novel is lavish with minutae that make the very architecture come to life. The craft of writing is taken to its summit via the best characterizations one may ever encounter, coupled with a plot that proves Cook to be one of the more inspired authors in the genre.