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Jul 09, 2008

Guy rated it:

Tears in my eyes at the end of this one. Beautifully crafted, unexpected twists and turns, new vistas opening up in every direction: this is a deep story. We are finally (not a complaint) starting to get a feel for the outlines of the underlying conflict here, as well as who the main characters (past and present) are likely to be. Unlike one of the other reviewers here, my chief complaint is that, even at 1180 pages, the book is too short.

I am... impressed. Erikson is better, per More...

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Aug 27, 2008

Brian rated it:

I just finished Memories of Ice, book three of Steven Erikson’s The Malazan Book of the Fallen. The book returns us to the characters we know from the first book, Gardens of the Moon, but we see little of the characters we met in book two, Deadhouse Gates, beyond a few cameos.

It’s good stuff. The books are thick, as is the fashion in fantasy novels following the mad success of Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Still, don’t expect anything like Jordan’s stories here. Nor is it much l More...

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Nov 18, 2007

Tina rated it:

The third book of Steve Erikson's Malazan series picks up where the first book left off. The Empress Laseen has outlawed Whiskyjack, the Bridgeburners, and Dujek Onearm after their failure to capture the jeweled city of Darujistan. The seasoned soldiers are not long out of work. On the continent of Genabackis there is word of a terrifying new threat. A deranged prophet known as the Pannion Seer is on the march with a massive army of powerful mages, undead lethal warriors and thousands of canniba More...

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May 07, 2007

Brahm rated it:

Although Memories of Ice is considered by many to be the best of the Malazan books, I found it to be the weakest. This is so because of the following reasons:

-The Mhybe storyline: Literally 150 pages of a character whining with nothing important happening. It is perfectly credible that given the Mhybe's situation she would be upset and give into self pity. But why do we need so many pages going over this?

-Inane Bridgeburners banter: Pages upon pages of the Bridgeburner ch More...

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Jan 26, 2009

Jana rated it:

This is certainly my favourite in the series so far. I did not really care that much for any of the characters in the first two books, but the third one totally changed my attitude towards most of them. The events in "Memories of Ice" left me wide-eyed and open-mouthed and crying for my mommie. I don't believe that anyone really stays dead in the Malazan Books of the Fallen, so I look forward to the next installment fervently hoping to see all my favourites again (or in the one after t More...

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Sep 25, 2007

Tim rated it:

In some respects, I found this one to be a little slower and more disjointed. The cool ideas are still here (and in fact, appearing more and more often) but I found myself getting bogged down in the third act. Memories of Ice has a lot more of a Glen Cook flavor than either of the previous books, with a prevalence of Mercenary companies. I would say that admiringly that Erickson is not afraid to kill off big-name main characters, but with the rampant apotheosis in these books, one wonders how More...

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Jan 05, 2011

Brian rated it:

Series 6/30/08 - 9/10
The Malazan series is one of the better fantasy series I've read in a while. It's extremely densely plotted, in a very vast and detailed world. Each book takes a new jump that leaves you wondering. Sometimes the books can be a little tough to follow and the characters are not the most detailed, but I really enjoyed these books overall. I can't wait to reread and catch up with the newer books I haven't read yet.

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Mar 25, 2009

Bill rated it:

Erikson doesn't give you a lot of time to breath in stories. There is always something important happening or preparing to happen. You can skim over some of the descriptive fluff if that's your style but don't skim for more than a paragraph or two lest you miss the opening to a great confluence of peoples or events that set the stage for even greater moments.

So far in the three books we have met the forces of the Malazan Empire, the people of Pale (who fought the Malazan's), the people More...

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Feb 06, 2012

Kiel rated it:

So I'm a little late in writing this review. I actually re-read Gardens of the Moon after reading this one, just to refamiliarize myself with the plot. But the tl;dr point of this review: I am becoming a huge Erikson fanboy.

This is the third book in this series, apparently occurring at the same time as the prior book, Deadhouse Gates . (Which I'm prolly going to have to re-read again, too. So much happens in these books that it's easy to miss a key part. Normally, I would chalk this u More...

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Sep 06, 2011

Clint rated it:

Considering how much better Deadhouse Gates was than Gardens of the Moon, I was expecting this to be super awesome. Unfortunately, it brought back too many of the characters from Gardens of the Moons with stupid names, and apparently someone has convinced the author that his English-language puns are really good, which just never ceases to annoy me, considering no one in the book could be speaking English. And, in common with another reviewer, I thought that all the pages dealing with the Mhyb More...

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Jul 01, 2011

Amanda rated it:

Well, now... It’s hard to marshal my thoughts on this one—but what I can immediately verbalise is the fact that it would be impossible to pick a favourite part of the novel, unlike with Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates. For me, I pretty much loved every part of Memories of Ice.

I also want to mention just how tight Erikson’s writing is. I was thinking about what a tome Memories of Ice is—well over one thousand pages in my edition—and yet there is not one redundant scene, in my op More...

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May 21, 2011

Tim rated it:

I am not sure of the ... efficacy of this book. Oh, what a burden it is to write this review. But is is my duty, so ... There is much to ... like in this book, especially if you read #1 in the series. But its biggest fault for me is that there is just too much muchness, and seven more books to come.

There are plenty of big and interesting ideas here, but problems too.

The parade of ... mighty warriors continues. The bodies pile up, and so do the ellipses, and a quarter of t More...

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Mar 20, 2011

Books-treasureortrash rated it:

Book Review: 3 Treasure Boxes

I really enjoyed this book. The story continues to grow in depth and complexity. It takes place simultaneously with the second book. There is an introduction of a new bad guy, the Pannion Seer and his incredibly weird army. The book still follows the Bridgeburners and gives more information about their background.

Steven Erikson is the author of the Malazan Book of the Fallen Series which comprises 10 books and 4 novellas. Memories of Ice is More...

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Mar 17, 2011

Jacob rated it:

(Please visit the original review, here: http://drying-ink.blogspot.com/2009/10/r... )
Memories of Ice deserves its acclaim, proving a worthy successor to both Gardens of the Moon (admittedly the slightly weaker book in the series, according to most fans) and Deadhouse Gates. Directly continuing the story arc discovered in Gardens of the Moon, Memories of Ice elucidates upon our key conflict, in addition to that at hand: the war with the Pannion Domin, a people led on a religious war by the More...

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Nov 03, 2010

Shafey rated it:

I am a bit surprised by the reviewers going ga-ga over the book.

This is what i think happened:
Eriksson wrote first book. It was a hit. Didnt know how to take it forward, so quickly wrote another side plot. (Deadhouse Gate) got back to the first plot. Made up a story as he went along, in the process messsing up the original plotline, addeed a lot of bathos, some romance and a lot of soul searching to fill in the gaps.

Let me pause here for a moment. I want to talk a More...

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Aug 04, 2010

Forrest rated it:

When you combine the skill with which Erikson hammers together his plots and the depth of his world-building with the Glen Cook-like gruesomeness of the events, you get something that is not altogether pleasant, although very compelling. Erikson has been steadily ratcheting up the doom level over the first three novels in the series, and while it is hard to believe he could come up with something nastier than the harrowing of the Chain of Dogs in Deadhouse Gates, the story of the Pannion Domin a More...

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Mar 26, 2010

Matthew rated it:

It's been a good while since I posted a review on this site. The fact is, I've been fairly busy (my novel was published, book signings up and down the west coast, work of various sorts including many hours spent on the next novel, the rigors of family life, life in general) and as a result I fell off the reviewing wagon. So in the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that it's been some time since I read Memories of Ice: The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book III by Steven Erikson.

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May 28, 2009

Stephen rated it:

This is a tough one for me. I would still very much recommend this book to those who have enjoyed either of the first 2 in the Malazan series, but I think this is the weakest so far. Still a great setting, and good story. Erikson starts to tie in some story lines, so the reader starts to get some of the bigger picture in this book, which is great. Still some intriguing characters in this one, though I thought Kruppe took a backwards step, and became a caricature of himself. He just didn't h More...

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Aug 30, 2010

Dzver rated it:

Мнението ми е противоречиво.

Тази книга е над 900 страници, но съдържа едва около 100 главни героя, в пъти по-малко от предните части. 90% от пространството е заето с уточняване кой герой къде се намира в момента и как се чувства.

Най-важната посока на развитие е издигането на всичките 100 героя до божественост, чрез многострадание. Ако безразборният секс на Фелисин от част 2 беше непоносим, то в 3-та част имаме поне две нови Фелисин копия, без да броим Сакатия бог.
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Sep 05, 2011

Derrick rated it:

Read September 2008
Read January 2010

September 2008 Review:
<spoiler>
taking place during and immediately after Deadhouse Gates. Paran is now Lord of the Decks [which recognizes "legitimate" gods]. Turns out that the Crippled god is actually an alien forced into our dimension 100's of thousands of years ago and now he is trying to destroy everything here in revenge. He is playing a great game of war. </spoiler>
This book deals with various fa More...

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Mar 31, 2009

Doc Opp rated it:

It happens to all fantasy epics eventually. In the first book the good guys defeat the great evil of the world. But if they've already beaten the great evil, how are any other lesser evils a challenge? No problem, just create an even GREATER evil on another continent, or from another plane, or newly created. Then there's dramatic tension, and the good guys eventually prevail. But as you continue to go farther into the series, it becomes harder and harder to make convincing greater evils tha More...

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Nov 10, 2011

Nicki rated it:

I can see a pattern developing with Erikson's books. I get to the last quarter of the book and start desperately wishing it were longer, even if it's a thousand-page tome. With Memories of Ice, though, I have to say the pacing was damn near perfect -- as was everything else.

After a prologue that covers two massive events in the history of the Malazan world, and which had me completely hooked all by itself, we return to Genabackis a couple of months after the events of Gardens of the Mo More...

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Nov 01, 2011

Jakub rated it:

That's more like it! Trzeci tom sagi Malazjańskiej wraca na imho dobrą drogę. Po słabym drugim tomie, wracamy do mięcha Malazjańskiej, czyli Quick Bena, Whiskeyjacka i Ganoesa Parana. Mottem przyświecającym temu tomowi jest "Wróg mojego wroga jest moim przyjacielem." - Żołnierze Imperium Malazjańskiego jednoczą się z Anomanderem i Caladan Brood by stawić czoła nowemu wyzwaniu.

W trzecim tomie dzieję się wiele odnośnie Malazjańskiego lore'a. Dowiadujemy się kto jest głównym zł More...

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Mar 15, 2009

Eric rated it:

It is March and that means more Malazan Book of the Fallen. Here we go with book three. This book was perhaps even more shocking in the depths of violence that the characters embody than the previous installments. Is the author striving to point out the utter evil of it? Not many fantasy books move me to contemplate the philosophical and theological assumptions that lie behind the story. And I don't mean the authors perspective. I mean the narrative perspective. For instance the book make More...

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Dec 19, 2011

Sebastien rated it:

Noël approche, je fini ma première année à l'industrielle alliance et je m'apprête à avoir du temps pour embarquer dans une histoire très large qui demande beaucoup de concentration. Le temps des fêtes est l'idéal pour ça :). Donc sans plus attendre j'ai commencer à lire ce livre.

En un mot: WOW!!! Ce livre est incroyable. Étant la suite directe du premier livre, on y revoit tous les personnages qu'on a tant aimer dans le premier livre sauf certain qui sont rendu dans la storylin More...

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Sep 23, 2011

Michele rated it:

The story started out very promising, but halfway through, it got distracted (kinda obsessed, even) about issues of morals and compassion, where the author comes up with all sorts of awkward far-out ways to save his characters (all except one, and ironically, the one tortured character I care about) from their various doomed and tortured existences.

I'm not the kind of reader who cares about a character's suffering unless they're major players in a really good storyline (all characters More...

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Aug 11, 2011

Matthew rated it:

Phenomenal! I totally loved it. Loaded with action and every plot line had an interesting twist and mystery that climaxed to a stunning, profound ending - which will continue in the next anticipated Malazan tale "House Of Chains."
My goal for this series was to read "House Of Chains" for some odd reason (loved to cover and the idea of the hounds of shadow). So far "Memories Of Ice" has been the most action packed tale in the series. I truly enjoyed how this bo More...

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Jul 06, 2011

Poopoo rated it:

Memories of Ice is the third book in Steven Erikson's ten-book Malazan Book of the Fallen epic, occurring during roughly the same time period as Deadhouse Gates (book #2) and carrying on the story of Gardens of the Moon more closely than that novel.

Throughout Gardens of the Moon, Erikson directly references the growing threat of the "Pannion Seer" to the south of Darujhistan; in that book's climax (spoilers for previous books will be hard to avoid from here on out, but I'll t More...

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May 15, 2011

Rob rated it:

...Reading Memories of Ice for the second time was quite a different experience than my first pass through this story. More so than in it's direct sequel Gardens of the Moon, Erikson lays the foundation of the larger series. We won't return to Genebackis until Toll of the Hounds, the eighth book in the series, but so much of what is going on in this novel is important to the rest of the series that I think this book is the key to the series. Once you've made it to this point, things will start f More...

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Jan 25, 2011

Christopher rated it:

Memories of Ice is the third installment in Steven Erikson's brilliant fantasy series, "The Malazan Book of the Fallen." This may well be my favorite of the series so far (I know, I keep saying this as I read each successive book). This is a big, big story, and the cliche 'epic' really doesn't do the series, or each book individually, justice; but by the third volume, the reader is beginning be much more comfortable in this amazing world that Erikson has created. Things really are s More...

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