

Cugel's Saga
Author: Jack Vance
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Unabridged: 11 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 04/15/2010
Author: Jack Vance
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Unabridged: 11 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 04/15/2010
Jack Vance is one of the greats of science fiction. He has been writing for more than 60 years, and in 1997 was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is the author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy novels, including the World Fantasy Award winning Lyonnesse series, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning The Last Castle. He lives in Oakland, California.
I think I read this the year it came out and never again. I really must dig the series out because it has stuck with me as rather fine. Cugel especially with his brand of cowardice and amoral innovation has remained a favorite. The world Vance creates is as compelling as the characters in it, and it......more
It has been an awfully long time since I read this book. Thirty years probably :o However, the fact that I can even attempt a review from memory speaks to how ... memorable ... the book is. I think I read this the year it came out and never again. I really must dig the series out because it has stuck......more
Some books are written to educate and some books are written to charm… I think there’s no need to tell what kind of a book Cugel's Saga is. Iucounu (known across Almery as 'the Laughing Magician') had worked one of his most mordant jokes upon Cugel. For the second time Cugel had been snatched up, car......more
Jack Vance is one hell of a storyteller. I may have gotten off on a slightly wrong foot with the first Tales of the Dying Earth, but once I fell into the groove in the second novel, it and the third are a pure delight. Why? Because it's nonstop trickery, confidence games, theft, and conscience-less kn......more
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature. Cugel “the clever” is one of the scummiest, nastiest, lowliest rogues in all of fantasy literature. He’s got no morals and no respect for women, he’s often a coward, he’s not good looking, nor is he particularly good with a sword. In the words of one of Cugel’......more