I do not enjoy Cook’s Black Company, but his Garret PI novels have a special place on my bookshelf.
What specifically did you dislike about Black Company?
I just don’t enjoy them.
Same here. Myth led me to Cook.
I love Joe Abercrombie’s works. They’re really good, and they’re more fun to read than just about anything else I can think of.
I absolutely cannot comprehend the regard for Rothfuss, though. I thought his book was pretty mediocre – not the worst ever, but pretty forgettable – but his protagonist? Give me a break. Let me put it to you this way: if you want a main character who can do ANYTHING very, very easily, and who has no flaws (with the possible exception of bad taste in women), then go read the book. Personally, I find such characters sooooo dull. This guy isn’t even two-dimensional; he’s one-dimensional. That one dimension is “good.” Good at doing anything, the bestest person ever, just good good good. Feh.
[Clanks sword and shield over head in celebration]
Huh. De gustibus, I suppose. I think the books were well written, and were a savage satire of fantasy tropes. The sheer savagery, however, got to be almost stomach-turning for me. I mean, he didn’t just skewer those tropes, he flayed them alive and left them screaming in the hot sun while his army of scorpions carried off gobbets of flesh from their extremities. It was painful.
I think I’m glad I read them, but I definitely don’t plan to reread them.
Can’t satire be read both ways though? You can take it straight or as satire, and enjoy it either way. Or in one way. Probably not both. 
I haven’t heard anyone else refer to the First Law books as satire. Is that how Abercrombie intended it? There was no place in the book where I thought “He can’t be serious.”