Welcome to my blog!

Originally this blog was dedicated purely to Glen Cook novels, but over time it expanded over different topics.

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The most recent posts on this blog

I've changed the date in most of my posts, so they are in the order I prefer. The original date is at the start or at the end of every modified post.

The most recent posts are:
My opinion about chess (19 December 2021)
Weird Science – one of the funniest movies I have EVER seen! (19 December 2021)
Chess is not about intelligence (18 December 2021 - update)
Listen to this! (15 December 2021)
NBA 2022 MVP race – part 1 (28 November 2021)
A constant grin of true happiness (thanks to Ghostbusters: Afterlife) (21 November 2021)
Polish soldiers taking the oath (11 November 2021)
Learning to fly AND land a radio controlled plane with CRRCSim (11 November 2021)
Do you think that modern communism would be much different than this? (9 October 2021)
Respect for Kyrie Irving! (9 October 2021)
The Ultra Vivid Lament – a song-by-song review (3 October 2021 - update)
Most universal types of binoculars (3 October 2021 - update)
Easy astronomy for total amateurs (16 September 2021 - update)

My top 12 favourite posts (on any topic) are:
The Dragon Never Sleeps re-read (Glen Cook's masterpiece)
303 (Polish) Squadron - Battle of Britain diary
My favourite list of Manic Street Preachers songs
Glycemic index makes fools out of people
A man who saved the life of George Washington
Embrace your problems with joy!
Gravity, acceleration, centrifugal force, tides and time
Men's and women's brains
Echoes of the Great Song re-read (David Gemmell's masterpiece)
Peace between people
Difference between an unborn baby and a newborn baby
Beauty of nature

Sticky:
“I'll go barefoot”
Fascinating history of modern astronomy
A reminder

You can find all of my favourite posts under the label “00 – My favourite posts”.

My favourite quotes

(Originally posted in May 2013)

    Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

(Glen Cook - The Black Company, 1984)


    Life has a habit of not being fair. (...) A man who goes through life complaining about fairness will make nothing of himself.

(David Gemmell - Knights of Dark Renown, 1989)


My letter was burnt but your words were wise
For mystery and youth must surely collide

(Manic Street Preachers - I Think I Found It - from their 10th studio album Postcards From A Young Man, 2010)


    The administration is growing to handle the challenges of the growing administration.

(I don’t know who should be credited for this quote, but I had to post it anyway.)

How I found out about Glen Cook and The Black Company

In the late 2006 I was looking for some good fantasy book written in English. English is not my native language and I wanted to read something interesting and fun just to keep in touch with it.

I was doing a thorough research on the Internet. Paradoxically I found the first mention about The Black Company on some forum in my native language. It was very short and vague, but it hinted that some person loved the Black Company and now “mourns” it. In fact it was only one short phrase, which is hard to translate to English, but it got me interested. Thankfully I was able to learn the original title because it was translated very precisely, which is something rare.

Having the title I was able to find many other opinions about the Black Company novel very fast. Some of them contained fairly detailed information about Glen Cook’s style of writing and I thought that I should enjoy it. Then I found on the net the first chapter of the novel and I was sure it was something I was looking for.