* On Sat 02/07/09 at 15:41, Richard Chilton (rchilton@auracom.com) wrote:
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Jerry Kalayjian <jkalayjian@yahoo.com>wrote:
Finding out of print Cook can be an adventure in and of itself. Other than The Swap Academy (which I haven't looked for) and Sung in Blood (which I read and didn't care for) I completed my collection a few years back. After exhausting every used book store I knew of at the time, I finally got a copy of the Dragon Never Sleeps (his best work, I think) several years ago by emailing someone who had written a review online in what would now be called a blog, and asked for suggestions. He had two copies and actually mailed me one. Random acts of kindness and all that.
I recently read The Dragon Never Sleeps, and I have to agree it is a wonderful book. Full of betrayal, and characters who look to their own self interest rather than giving everything to The Cause.
The Dragon Never Sleeps is one of my favorites too. It's got good characterization and an interesting, non-standard approach. I saw it recently in Barnes and Noble so it's being reprinted now too. It's great that so many of Cook's out-of-print works are now available again. :-) Steve