Don't buy this "Best Served Cold"!

[Brian G Turner]

So I went to order Abercrombie's Best Served Cold from Amazon.

However, upon searching on Amazon, I nearly became confused and bought this title instead!

Best Served Cold: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Malcolm Walker - CEO of Iceland Foods

I think Monza would be a great brand name for frozen lasagne. Contains 100% Orso?

 

[Perpetual Man]

But is it any good?

 

[Juliana]

But is it any good?

The lasagne, the Iceland book or Joe's fantastic page-turner?

 

[Perpetual Man]

The Iceland book. I mean people find they buy these things by mistake and they have discovered the next big thing

(It'll be a long while before I get anywhere near reading it, but I'd like to think that Abercrombie's is going to be a given.)

 

[alchemist]

But is it any good?

Controversial, apparently. Most reviews indicate it's well-written with good action scenes, but there are no likeable characters and the scene where everybody's locked in a freezer was considered grim for the sake of grimness

 

[Perpetual Man]

You mean they were locked in the one with the vegetables, rather than the one with the desserts, because that's more than just grim, that's cruel.

 

[alchemist]

And we won't say what they did with the vegetables

 

[Ursa major]

Avoid the audiobook version: Malcolm Walker reads his own book out loud and doesn't care whether he's hoarse or not....


*cough*




(Actually, to be accurate, he thinks someone else should be responsible for testing for that.)

 

[alchemist]

I laughed. And neigh way am I going to encourage a string of puns.

 

[Ursa major]

And you don't have to, as most of them are probably recorded here.

 

[Juliana]

Ursa, fantastic link!

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

The horse meat thread, Ursa?


I wonder if that stuff had ever given anybody the trots...

 

[Perpetual Man]

Whoa! Whoa! there Karn, rein in the impulse to turn this thread turning into a nightMARE....

Lets refer to the mane thread Ursa linked us too

 

[thaddeus6th]

On a less amusing but similar note there are some histories by Theodore Ayrault Dodge I really like. However, some newer versions are heavily abridged, and they don't make it clear (the full books are 600-800 pages or so), so it would be very easy to buy one with half the content missing.

On Best Served Cold: is it grimdark?

 

[Ice fyre]

I loved Best Served Cold, Abercombie manages to put forward farcial nature of the situation Styria finds itself. High tragedy follows in a epic story of betrayal (so much it makes ones head spin) and in some greed in others downright stupidity. I love the human touch he has with his writing, though his outlook is imensley bleak.

 

[Yog-Sothoth]

Am I the only one who keeps seeing Joe 'Applecrumble' each time someone mentions his name?

 

[Mouse]

I went to school with an 'Abercrombie.' Wonder if they're related.

 

[Ice fyre]

Apple crumble ...yuuummm...

 

[Yog-Sothoth]

^Best served hot!

 

[Ice fyre]

With Ice cream..... sigh