After all those years you spent as a lurker at wotmania it is good to finally see you post something.
I promise dude, I will finish reading the Malazan stuff eventually. I don;t really even have time to read my own stuff right now what with 15 credit hours this semester, and each of those courses has me doing a lot of reading as well. PErhaps during the break between semesters I will start Deadhouse Gates over again and finish it this time.
I promise dude, I will finish reading the Malazan stuff eventually. I don;t really even have time to read my own stuff right now what with 15 credit hours this semester, and each of those courses has me doing a lot of reading as well. PErhaps during the break between semesters I will start Deadhouse Gates over again and finish it this time.
"Gardens of the Moon" seriously just drops the reader into a massive war scene. Gods are walking around in Mortal form, totally Frakking with people in ugly, ugly ways, suddenly there's a flying mountain, and hell rains down on these Marines and Mages called the Bridgeburners, but there is treachery, and meek little Sorry is a badass all of a sudden, and killing everyone, and where the hell did this Jaghut Tyrant and the Imass come from... WTF is an Imass? What's up with the goofy names, and WHA??? Just WHA??? But, boy, there were some outrageous battle and magic scenes. Whoa! Everything snaps into focus, and BAM!!! The Eel!!!
That's how GotM was for me, and the reader keeps getting dropped blind into strange, new parts of the world, in "Meanwhile over here... (poof! reader lands in a cloud of dust into a totally new part of the current events)" moments through the entire series. In "Deadhouse Gates" Massive ancient powers are being unleashed in the holy desert of Raraku by parties resistant to the Malazan push. An Historian, sworn to the War god, Fener, inadvertently rips the Pig God out of the Pantheon. Power draws powers, and gods, ascendant demi-gods, and powerful armies explode in the Whirlwind. Meanwhile, Coltain, a beloved Tribal warrior, and a High Fist for the Malazan Empire leads thousands of refugees to safety, but higher powers are set against him, and in destroying him, birth his martyrdom. We have no idea how all this came to be before we witness it first-hand as we read. It's a History.
Are we supposed to know what's really going on? No. RAFO. As pieces of one book come together, it slowly brings "A-HA!" moments in the Big Picture of the epic... The one certain Truth-- the Bridgeburners will both win your heart, and break it in monumental ways.
Gods above, this series is enormous, and you're just one reader, one Historian trying to take it all in... The entire story is written in past- tense. Some of that past is half-million years ago, some is just recently. Rolling with Erikson's flow brings surprises, demises and rewards with every page and every book.
--mf
That's how GotM was for me, and the reader keeps getting dropped blind into strange, new parts of the world, in "Meanwhile over here... (poof! reader lands in a cloud of dust into a totally new part of the current events)" moments through the entire series. In "Deadhouse Gates" Massive ancient powers are being unleashed in the holy desert of Raraku by parties resistant to the Malazan push. An Historian, sworn to the War god, Fener, inadvertently rips the Pig God out of the Pantheon. Power draws powers, and gods, ascendant demi-gods, and powerful armies explode in the Whirlwind. Meanwhile, Coltain, a beloved Tribal warrior, and a High Fist for the Malazan Empire leads thousands of refugees to safety, but higher powers are set against him, and in destroying him, birth his martyrdom. We have no idea how all this came to be before we witness it first-hand as we read. It's a History.
Are we supposed to know what's really going on? No. RAFO. As pieces of one book come together, it slowly brings "A-HA!" moments in the Big Picture of the epic... The one certain Truth-- the Bridgeburners will both win your heart, and break it in monumental ways.
Gods above, this series is enormous, and you're just one reader, one Historian trying to take it all in... The entire story is written in past- tense. Some of that past is half-million years ago, some is just recently. Rolling with Erikson's flow brings surprises, demises and rewards with every page and every book.
--mf
Death to the Regressives of the GOP and the TeaParty. No mercy for Conservatives. Burn them all at the stake for the hateful satanists they are.
Does Erikson get better?
- 12/01/2010 05:29:51 PM
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I read somewhere that reading Erikson involves being completely lost for the first half of the book-
- 12/01/2010 05:41:35 PM
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I agree with the Brandon Sanderson suggestion.
- 12/01/2010 05:43:27 PM
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You didn't like Robin Hobb?
- 12/01/2010 05:49:19 PM
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I don't.
- 12/01/2010 05:55:25 PM
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I think Liveship is the best of her series, so you should give it a try
- 12/01/2010 06:40:51 PM
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Her strength is her characters, IMO.
- 12/01/2010 07:44:23 PM
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See, I think her characters are weak, at least the main characters.
- 12/01/2010 08:48:10 PM
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LIVESHIP isn't first-person, which is a big plus in its favour. *NM*
- 13/01/2010 04:19:42 AM
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Beat you by a second. *NM*
No. Burn it. Erikson is horrid. Read Sci-Fi instead. Start with KSR and Alastair Reynolds. *NM*
- 12/01/2010 07:49:14 PM
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i couldn't read erikson. same reasons. i read about a hundred pages and was like screw this...
- 12/01/2010 11:06:04 PM
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Keep in mind that Erikson was an archeologist and anthropologist.
- 13/01/2010 02:06:01 AM
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Yes! Convergence Demands It!
- 22/01/2010 04:03:13 AM
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welcome to board monkeyfister
- 24/01/2010 09:27:37 PM
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