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Many people complained about the language, saying the profanities are inappropriate or too modern for the society of that period.

Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary. Trained, from childhood, in the various skills necessary for their trade, they enjoy their work - and hold more stolen gold than they know what to do with.

By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Retirando o conteúdo do livro - que por si já é excelente -, o produto chegou em ótimas condições e mais rápido do que a previsão do frete. Yes, there is a lot of swearing and scenes of brutality but the Gentleman Bastards do live in a dangerous era and operate with some of the meanest and roughest criminals. The Lies of Locke Lamora’ is a superb novel, sure to entertain anybody with a fondness for witty dialogue and outrageous schemes. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

You can't really expect thieves and con artists to behave like some uptight nobles even when they're being themselves. Well for the first point, these people are known as the Gentleman Bastards and not just the Gentlemen. Description: ISBN10: 0575076941, ISBN13: 9780575076945, [publisher: Gollancz] Hardcover First Edition Original Gollancz hardcover first edition of Scott Lynch’s first book in the Gentleman Bastards Series published in 2006. They find neither, but just when all their luck, money, and hope seem exhausted, they receive an offer from a power that has never had their best interests at heart: The Bondsmagi of Karthain.

It was great to learn how powerful the Bondsmagi are and then the next chapter opens with Locke swearing at one of these mighty Bondsmagi. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Exclusively for Anderida Books, Gollancz produced signed and numbered copies of these anniversary editions. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Whilst this sounds like power fantasy, Lynch constructs his characters carefully, imbuing them with their own unique strengths and weaknesses, and as a result success never seems like an inevitability.It gave me the blessing of feeling like a kid again, snuggled up with a book, wondering how the hell 10pm became 4am. I find the flashbacks add a rich layer to the storytelling, providing just enough background information to introduce the new scenes.