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    <body><![CDATA[Technically speaking I read this book and the Ice and Fire series as work-related research. I think that the cover alone might have been enough to scare me off otherwise. This book is quality, though not *great* fantasy fare. By and large I enjoyed it in the role of fantasy geek; my more literary as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7983124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book.  Erikson may not be quite as good a writer as George R. R. Martin, but he's plenty good enough to hold the rapt attention of this reader.  I have just Amazoned the other seven novels in the series that have been published thus far, and I look forward to many (many!) hours of deaf-to-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22750314">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gardens of the Moon is the first in Steven Erikson's gargantuan and oddly named fantasy series, Malazan Book of the Fallen. What's odd about it is that it took me THREE tries to get through this first volume. The first two times I tried, I got one or two hundred pages in and just lost interest, main...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28987591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a hard beginning, or maybe even first third! So many names, too many to keep track of. But I had nothing else to read on my vacation, and I found the world intriguing, so whereas at home I might have tossed away, I plugged away, and oh what a world what a world. Everything started to come toget...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22960226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Martin's <em>A Game of Thrones</em>, and at the end I had exactly the same thought that I had at the end of <em>Gardens of the Moon</em>: &quot;Ahhhhh, things are getting started!&quot; But unlike <em>Thrones</em>, I didn't feel like <em>Gardens</em> could have done without the middle four or five hundred pages. Almost every se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29885162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first novel in a projected 10-novel epic fantasy, and it is also the first novel by Canadian writer Steven Erikson. It's an impressive enough first novel that I look forward to reading future installments. I wouldn't have to, though: unlike many epic fantasy series, this novel looks like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7010166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book/series is a bit more pure fantasy than George RR Martin's work.  That said, the ending of Book 2, and two points in book 3 are the most choked up I've been when reading a book in a long time.  This first book is a bit hard to get through, and I was frequently checking the glossary of chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3742016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first volume in what is probably the greatest fantasy series being published, completely insane and overwhelming in scale and scope, refreshingly inaccessible, and taking more cues from Peake, Wolfe, and Dunsany than anything else. Though the series has a heavily political and military slant, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30138374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best fantasy series I have read in a long while. Erikson, once anthropologist, has clearly spent a great deal of time developing his world. From the geology to the history, the Malazan world gives the reader an impression of reality and antiquity beyond even what Tolkien managed. Who kne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/555017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only words that really come to mind when I think of this novel are such as &quot;immaculate&quot; and &quot;incredible.&quot; Erickson has, in so many ways, created the most panoramic world in the genre of fantasy. The sheer scope of the novel is an undertaking in itself, and for Erickson to hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43802362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I finally finished.  It did get better, although it took more like 200 pages to do so.  I was never more than mildly interested, though, and I really didn't like it enough for it to have been worth the pain of the beginning.<br/><br/>The problems with this book as I see them:<br/><br/>- Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35820190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This. This right here. This book is everything I expect from a fantasy novel.<br/><br/>The author's rather intimidating introduction (Bantam edition) notwithstanding, this book has neither a too difficult plot to follow nor does it require excessive reference to the dramatis personae or the maps. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28849462">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Erikson's books are only for readers who love getting deeply immersed in an epic story in a fantasy setting. That said, if you fit that prereq, you are going to love these books. Erikson introduces many sub-plots and draws them all together in sometimes unexpected ways.<br/><br/>The only warning I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26304702">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a lot of fantasy, including Jordan's &quot;Wheel of Time&quot; series, Elliot's &quot;Crown of Stars&quot; series, Moon's &quot;Paksenarrion&quot; series, etc.  This was definitely one of the best and promises to rival Jordan's work, in my opinion.<br/><br/>I agree with a lot of the comment...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17032548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wrote this review on Amazon first:<br/><br/>I just finished up &quot;Gardens of the Moon&quot; last night around 2:00am. I couldn't put the book down for about 4 hours, as anyone who has read this knows that the last 1/4 of the book grabs you, holds you, and doesn't let go. ;)<br/><br/>I've re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10381332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another Fantasy mega-series, Gardens of the Moon is the first book in Steven Erikson's epic Malazan giga-ology.<br/><br/>This is dark fantasy in the vein of Glen Cook's Black Company stories, which I was instantly reminded of when I began reading this.  This is a good thing, in my opinion.  It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3904450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here I am starting yet another fantasy series.  This one comes with a lot of recommendations so I had fairly high expectations for it.  The book is set in a extremely well-realized fantasy world that really has a deep sense of mythology and legend. The world is very old and the author makes use of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2710494">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book in a mega series of fantasy.  Although this series was created recently it is an instant classic.<br/><br/>The author has created an enormous but very detailed world.  As you get further along in the series it pays to go back an re-read the previous books.  Each time I do I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36058018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a feeling I'm going to become obsessed with this series.  It took me a great deal of time to get into it - about 150 pages of &quot;Who the heck are all of these characters&quot;!  But, I eventually caught on to it all, and found myself intrigued.  I've already ordered the next in the series ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49350861">more...</a>]]></body>
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