The Tyranny of the Night: Book One of the Instrumentalities of the Night by Glen Cook

Number 5 on the 25 best fantasy list but I guess I read the wrong one. This is like a history lesson, just droning on, telling not showing, going on and on about a fantasy world, the politics. It's not interesting. The reviews say it just goes on and on. It seems only people who loved his previous work managed to even put it with it. I guess I could read the Black Company but this military stuff just completely turns me off. I don't want to hear about battle after battle and I don't want to hear about people who have the typical military mindset. And that's what it is to be military fantasy fiction. Lord of the Rings has tons of battles and a group of armed men running around, that doesn't make it military fantasy fiction. Also the Black Company is only available as an audio book.