JOE ABERCROMBIE | A Chat With The Man Himself

[@vaughnroycroft999]

You know, I've seen a few interviews with Lord Grimdark. But, honestly Liene, this is my favorite. I think it's born of your grasp of the subject material. So regardless of whether he's lying at the end--about your asking him unique questions--I think they were unique in that your perspective is so nuanced by your passion for the work. Kudos! Really enjoyed this immensely.

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you so much! I certainly like to think I managed to make my obsessive fangirling sound like nuanced analysis 🙈

[@pellelindbergh4455]

great interview ,Mr. Abercrombie is great writer

[@bookswithlau]

I agree! I've been watching quite a few interviews of Abercrombie and her questions were really unique. It truly shows how much she knows and loves the material thus the questions she came up with are a lot more specific and deep than the ones other interviewers ask.

[@ErnaB790]

What amazes me about Joe the most, is that the first law books where his first books and simply his sense of humor (in his books as much as in interviews) and his honesty on writing processes, ideas and troubles.

[@MrZacke08]

That was without a doubt the best talk I've seen with Joe.

[@LienesLibrary]

high praise indeed! I certainly enjoyed my time with the legend 🙌

[@k-majik]

You did it Liene, this is the best Joe Abercrombie interview. The sheer number of times you've read this series really comes across in your questions :P

[@LienesLibrary]

Thank you! Tried to stay professional and keep from fangirling too much 😅

[@saly4762]

so happy for you Liene, I'm sure you were screaming inside while doing this interview

[@LienesLibrary]

deafeningly so 😂

[@UncleFenris]

I loved this interview, the two of you had such a lovely rapport, and it was very funny at times

[@artbyandia]

I love Vick and fully support her decision. She is now my 2nd fav character in the series. This was so cool and knowing that you are such a fan makes me really happy for you that you got to talk with one of our favourite authors :D

[@LienesLibrary]

it really was a dream come true

[@suzieirby2137]

Best interview. Best questions. Your questions were NOT canned; they were from your knowledge of the books.

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you so much! 🧡

[@JessieMaeBooks]

YESSS LIENE YESSSS 👏👏👏👏👏

[@LienesLibrary]

I still can't believe it 😂🧡

[@a1cha0s]

One of the best interviews with Abercrombie or any author. I loved the questions you asked - some challenging and some only a true fan would ask. You both make me want to reread the whole first law universe again soon!

[@LienesLibrary]

oh wow thanks so much! I live in a perpetual state of wanting to reread First Law so I endorse this haha

[@robertwing7974]

This is absolutely fantastic. I've never felt this represented as a longtime Abercrombie fan in other interviews. Thank you! Excited to explore more of your work.

[@LienesLibrary]

oh wow that's high praise indeed! thank you, glad you enjoyed 🧡

[@snezanaivanisevic9043]

I love Joe so much it's sick 😁

[@RetroBailey]

that new book sounds insane and I AM HERE FOR IT

[@LienesLibrary]

I'm pretty hyped for it

[@oculiocto3185]

This was a wonderful little surprise. I've seen a few interviews with Joe and I finished it with a strong sense that this is my favorite, especially toward the end there where it became more conversational. Thank you for making this a thing.

[@LienesLibrary]

that's so nice to hear! I loved every second so it was my absolute pleasure

[@readingreignbro5680]

This is the Abercrombie interview I've been anticipating...great job. This is really interesting. Can't wait to catch completely up with his work. Cheers.

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you! and yes, you must read all the books!

[@GregKulevich]

Wow. Great interview. I've watched about 10 of these since TwP and you managed to keep it fresh and interesting. Smartly done Liene. Joe looked like he was enjoying himself too.

[@LienesLibrary]

I like to think he didn't entirely loathe his time answering my questions 😌

[@Lily_James]

Ahhhh I audibly gasped when this popped up in my feed! Soooo well deserved and so happy for you! Also immensely entertaining to watch, you had such naturally good rapport with Joe and managed to ask fantastic questions. Your love and enthusiasm for the series really shines through and I think Joe felt it as well. This is the best Abercrombie interview I've seen by far! Thanks a lot!

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you so much! I was just trying to keep my enthusiasm at a level that wouldn't frighten the man 😂

[@fatefulryuk4886]

Got into first law because of your videos. Went through all 9 books in 3 weeks. You’ve created a monster

[@LienesLibrary]

ummm you're welcome? hehe

[@rigohook1160]

Liene, that was a great interview, and it shows that you have a knowledge of the books. I know that is nothing that will ever happen, but say one thing about Logen Ninefingers, say he needs a prequel.

[@Airehcaz]

I became a great fan of Abercrombie only about 2 years ago, having since binged his works and watched maybe a dozen interviews with him! and I think this is one of best he’s done :) you did a great job Liene

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you! 🧡

[@lovisa4680]

this is great! i've seen lots of abercrombie interviews and you covered some appreciated new ground. happy for you and i hope you get to do this again!

[@LienesLibrary]

Thank you! I’d adore the chance to speak with him again 🧡

[@Cycon91]

This was probably the best interview I've seen with Joe Abercrombie yet. Great job!

[@LienesLibrary]

oh wow thank you!

[@ramahpalmer7089]

Happy for you that you got to do this, Liene, you must have been internally squeeing the whole time. Joe is always so open and funny - love to see him interviewed and you did a great job. Well done. :)

[@LienesLibrary]

Thanks! And you bet I was 😅

[@kit888]

Great interview. Covers the story and writing background more than his other interviews I've seen.

[@LienesLibrary]

I like to think it wasn't entirely just rehashing what he's said before 😋

[@t20sgrunt36]

Good for you getting this interview! Happy for ya.

[@LienesLibrary]

thanks!

[@orcanimal]

Jesus. The description of Joe's new book = sign me up TODAY!

[@Sophie703]

This really was the best Joe interview I’ve seen! Thanks for advocating for Ferro - I could read a whole book about her. Super excited for his new book, the more I hear about it the more I need it. Then again, as you mentioned, I’d read anything he writes!

[@adammalone2909]

I'm so happy you got to do this, you earned it!

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you 🧡

[@anthonydownie4055]

That was great! Really enjoyed it. It was one of those great rambly interviews that felt more like a conversation. I hope you are dead happy with it!

[@LienesLibrary]

aww thanks so much!

[@bethloubet4650]

Well done! Excellent job. Stopping at about 35 minutes in -- I'll be starting my first read in January. I'll listen to the rest after I read the opus! Thank you for doing this.

[@LienesLibrary]

oh will you be joining the readalong?

[@bethloubet4650]

@@LienesLibrary Yes! I have the first book.

[@RenHRbooklover]

Legit screamed for you! Haha

[@LienesLibrary]

I was internally screaming 😂

[@ellisg95]

Congratulations! I know how much of a fan you are of Joe Abercrombie! I discovered your channel shortly after starting First Law! You deserve this interview!

[@LienesLibrary]

aww thank you so much!

[@gloriawandrous6461]

Great interview. He clearly enjoyed your questions.

[@LienesLibrary]

I certainly hope so, but I'm happy to delude myself 😂

[@gloriawandrous6461]

@@LienesLibrary It was fairly obvious to me, no delusion necessary.

[@RubALamp]

Great interview, Liene! One of the best I've seen with Abercrombie.

[@maidbymaid9838]

Finally got to finish this interview and it was so so so interesting! I love that you didn't shy away from certain topics and you really asked questions that come up in your head as you're reading first law

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you! so glad you enjoyed!

[@TallShepherd]

Really great discussion, so many things I hadn't heard Joe talk about before! What a great video Liene!

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you! then again, I can't really take credit - Lord Grimdark did most of the talking, I just nodded and smiled 😂

[@simbi8779]

Congratulations, I'm so happy for you

[@LienesLibrary]

hehe thanks 😋

[@TrickyRilke]

His pitch for The Devils sounds absolutely delightful

[@LienesLibrary]

doesn't it?

[@bennycarts]

Brilliant interview!

[@bradleyheck7204]

Compound interest: the ultimate in eeevvviiilll!!!

[@timhill7565]

Awesome!! I’m so very pumped for you! You’re part of the reason I picked this author up to begin with!.

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you! glad you enjoyed the books 🧡

[@ronfoss7784]

You Rock, girl!!! For having Abercrombie on the show. Awesomeness 🤘🏻😁

[@charityreust6791]

Great interview. Joe Abercrombie is my favorite author. Really enjoyed

[@LienesLibrary]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@currangill430]

You can never have too many Joe Abercrombie reviews

[@markusbisma5015]

Love the interview

[@DNJY18]

The music at the Start and the end of the video is so First Law ish. Amazing interview.

[@qine6559]

Omg! He is so awesome!! And great interview!

[@techsoul5590]

Great interview!

[@Craigathy]

Favorite booktuber and favorite author! So excited!

[@LienesLibrary]

on favorite author we agree 😋

[@pellelindbergh4455]

Abercrombie is very funny and smart and a wonderful writer .i have read most his work ,i think the the first laws are my fave but his other works are great too

[@bradleyheck7204]

"There will probably be a Styrian one!" WHOOT! WHOOT!

[@Klemeron]

Oh man lucky you, will watch the whole thing when i'm sober

[@Klemeron]

so I made it! Ugh! I love you both for doing this

[@bespectaclednerd4426]

Oh my god!!!! 😳

[@LienesLibrary]

yeah, my thoughts exactly 🙈

[@readbykyle3082]

Hey, I watched this! And then I downvoted you for the Feast of Crows dig 😈 great questions Liene, your enthusiasm bled through and you got Joe to be more forthcoming than I've seen otherwise. I'll have to circle back to the middle portion when I've finished the series.

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you so much! now just hurry up and binge the rest 😛

[@harmanbeing]

Great interview, just watched the whole thing.

[@nataliaweronikapetersson3425]

So happy for you!!!

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you 🧡

[@pugshorty9852]

One of the very best fantasy authors and a highly beautiful lady. What's not to love about this? This is simply excellent!

[@LienesLibrary]

hehe thanks 😊

[@jamesead9095]

Ah, I have just started reading the series, but something definitely told me he was British, and now its confirmed 🤣 (Aknowledging that I could have found that out easily elsewhere, but still!)

[@ericsbuds]

how amazing it must be to chat with someone you probably have so many questions for xD good stuff

[@JeshuaHicksAuthor]

I accidentally read A Little Hatred first, not knowing it was a continuation of First Law. One of the biggest things that struck me was that Glokta guy. "I hope he was in First Law," I said to myself. Little did I know...

[@LienesLibrary]

Glokta 😍

[@vintageart13]

Great interview, I think you did a great job. I really like the question and the way you let him answer without interrupting him. Both you and him look very comfortable in the interview. congratulations on interviewing one of your favorite authors. Maybe you will get a chance to interview some of your other favorite authors, maybe?

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you! and while Abercrombie was the top of my list of authors I'd want to speak to, there are others I'd love the opportunity to chat with as well...

[@osoisko1933]

You fucking did it!

[@LienesLibrary]

did I? I'm still not sure any of that was real 🥴

[@maria83maria]

Omg i am so proud of you🥰

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you! 🧡

[@Vooodooolicious]

Stranger Come Fking is one of my favourite character name. I still laugh about that one.

[@caveman7608]

I could tell you surprised him a few times.

[@ToriMorrow]

LIENE!! I’m so excited for you! 🥳

[@LienesLibrary]

I still can't believe this happened 🥴

[@eriklonnrot3578]

Excited for you Liene!!!🙀😆👁

[@LienesLibrary]

thank you 🧡

[@currangill430]

Once you got a review to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it

[@thecontradictorian2225]

When will he write the Second Law Trilogy?

[@osoisko1933]

This would be brilliant.

[@LienesLibrary]

he said how he felt about writing books about Gurkhul......

[@frmaha]

I am so here for going back to a Stone Age.

[@davesleyer9393]

I had to pause when you said spoilers ahead because I had twenty pages left. I just wrapped it up and WTF!?

[@aysadepoter2637]

Can you maybe do a bookshelf tour?

[@LienesLibrary]

some day....when I summon the energy haha

[@ScullyPop]

Phenomenal 🔥

[@hourstooshort1447]

Liene trying not to fangirl scream

[@LienesLibrary]

all my energy was directed toward containing the urge to squeal 😂

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

I am going to try to watch your video in the next few days love your channel love your Australia fan John xxx

[@tonkabeanicecream5698]

I hope that he doesn't go to Gurkhul, I am pretty sure he wouldn't for the reasons he has said, I think he should go to the old empire with a re-emerging of the old empire romans. A pirate thousand Isles story would be awesome too and then maybe the last in Thond?

[@joeleonard1314]

This man is an absolute genius. I hope he doesn't bend to the woke sjw's and feminists who can find an insult or complaint anywhere... the most recent trilogy had lots of women and it was fantastic. Honestly, I have read his books so many times because I can't find anything else that's as good.

[@watcherofwatchers]

I am curious... Was this a one-off interview, or have you stayed in touch with him at all?

[@ballelort87]

Skinny Eddie Hall

[@ThePurogeo]

I love his books. That being said, I'm not buying his works until Ninefingers return.

[@Ihysalem]

Did you read red country?

[@antone151]

Joe, you are a little bit hard on yourself. The first law was awesome. The last trilogy was really good too, however I'm a bit angry you killed my favorite character. It fits though it hurts. My favorite writer, keep it up.

[@bradleyheck7204]

Smoking chagga and communing with Spirits was quietly dropped. They were fading, anyway. Didn't have a lot to say anymore.

[@ArcanaZeroTheFool]

Someone pinch me, I can't believe you got to do this!

[@LienesLibrary]

no one's pinched me, so I don't believe it either 🤪

[@Sangomah]

The first law: Bayaz is always right The Second law: If Bayas for some radicicolous, highly unlikely reason, is wrong? See The First Law

[@sirrichard77]

Great interview. 👍 Apart from a major book spoiler about the fate of a main character it was all good. 🤨

[@sirrichard77]

Sorry my mistake. I just saw you did say spoilers. Unfortunately I missed you saying it when I first listened. 😭

[@kentjensen4504]

He says the exact same things in every interview.

[@antone151]

Orso was my favorite in the new books. Why Joe? Why?

[@ryanoneal8480]

I wish you had asked him to stop using "grimaced" every 5 pages. Someone get Joe a thesaurus.

[@docthunder1413]

Did you listen to the audiobook? I don't think he overused the word, it just seems that way because of how the reader pronounced the word in the first trilogy. He changed his pronunciation of the word in the second trilogy.

[@ryanoneal8480]

@@docthunder1413 yea....if a word is being used so much you notice when the narrator changes how he says it....youve used the word too much lol

[@docthunder1413]

A narrator only has to make such an obvious mis-pronunciation (or perhaps a British pronunciation) one time to make it noticeable. Odd that you feel the need to so strongly (and rudely) defend such an insignificant post over a year after you made it. Let me guess, you never apologize for anything in life, all your problems are other people's faults, and you get off on complaining about convenience store clerks - but only if they are single mothers who need the job and have to take your shit so they can feed their babies. What a fulfilling life you must lead.

[@johnmarks9994]

Spoiler: I wish Sworbreck had been the last person tossed off the Tower of Chains.

[@teddited9682]

Nope-First Law is sooo much better than Madness…those books seem more like pontificating on issues verses First Law is just a really good story

[@RetroBailey]

WTF

[@billyalarie929]

Liene is letting him off the hook wrt representation of women and LGD is over here "i really could've done so much better with that....." and Liene just keeps insisting he's okay.. slightly awkward lol, let your foot off the gas a little, Joe. you're not a tErRiBLe person for having only 2 POV characters that are women!

[@LienesLibrary]

haha just trying to be realistic 😛