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    <body><![CDATA[I'm trying to think of another book that had me laughing out loud again and again, while inbetween hovering between suspense and sorrow at the slow, inexorable unfolding of personal and world-wide tragedy... and I can't.<br/><br/>Interestingly, I have had experiences like this in the theater on se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37849586">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is pretty much a stand-alone from the previous four but I'm sure some characters will show up again. Two kingdoms are building up to a clash and the story flips back and forth between a set of brothers in each kingdom. This book wasn't nearly as complex as the earlier ones and would actual...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5731854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book also spans a huge chunk of time by starting with a story from ages past when Scabadari (leader of the Tiste Edur) and Silchas Ruin (the leader of the Tiste Andii) fought in a huge battle up to the more present day war between the Edur and the Leterii along with the ever present involvement...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50418788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really have no idea what's going on with this one.  There are some overall arc nuggets buried in here but all I can do is hope that this side story pays off somehow. <br/><br/>That doesn't mean this isn't an entertaining book.  Far from it.  The Edur story is blah and bleh but the action in Leth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51540906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just recently finished this book. I usually only read Erikson when I'm traveling, because I get distracted easily and I'll pick up another book that's more engaging to begin with. <br/><br/>This one took me about the first 200 pages to get into, but after that it started going a lot faster. I en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59375733">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know this will sound totally weird but Steven Erikson departs to yet another continent, replete with its own storylines, for this the 5th book in the Malazan series.  Crazy and so unlike him I know.  <br/><br/>What could be a really risky venture as a story teller actually works out here pretty ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3905725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy cow!<br/><br/>Ok, I was thinking I was kinda getting tired of Erikson's style and the pattern his books had fallen into.  I picked this one up on a whim and it took me a few days to get started into it.  <br/><br/>And then, of course, I couldn't put it down.  <br/><br/>This one's different.  Ve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34842772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series is sort of an overwritten Lensman.  The characters are debateably less flat, but it leans heavily on spectacle setpieces that are very impressive and loud.  Mages don't fling lightning bolts around, they hurl miles-wide coruscating fields of green fir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15480348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fifth entry in Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series is a departure from the earlier books - centering on two sets of brothers in a previously unmentioned part of the author's sprawling world, it is both sweeping epic tale and intense family drama. Even upon completing the book, I don't qu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43622131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Erikson takes another left turn and introduces another complete set of characters, two of which give Kruppe a run for being the best in the series.  <br/><br/>Seriously, if you don't love Tehol Beddict and his manservant Bugg, then I just don't want to know you.<br/><br/>There's a bit of a slog ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26562373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best book in the series so far.  Very well written.  Names are a little difficult to pronounce and the shear number of characters can be overwhelming, but do-able.  If you have enjoyed other multi-volume fantasy novels like Robert Jordan, this one takes the cake.  If you have a few months to read a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43874837">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this one, set in a completely different world than the first four that spans the timeline of the first four then joins both the world and timeline during. With the introduction of some more concepts and complexity I'm amazed this author knows what is going on let alone be able to wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50151233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favourite Malazan book thus far. Although it is book 5 of a ten book series and we're introduced to a whole set of new characters (with one exception), the pace generally remains quick enoughThings don't get too over the top (ala Memories of Ice), the characterization is solid for once (especiall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1084479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Malazan Book 5.  Not my favorite of the books, but still very well written.  I believe this is theone where you get introduced to Karsa Orlong, and I think it focuses on him too much.  I don't find him that engaging until much later, say book 8.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[okay so i finished it. it took me forever, and it was exhausting, but when i was able to get on a streak of reading, i enjoyed it. its not poorly written, i just have so much difficulty with genre fiction where everything has an unfamiliar name and theres so much dense backstory which, reading midse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36849069">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite a departure from the rest of the series having only one character in common with the rest of the series before this.  Started out somewhat slow but by the last 100 pages I was hardly able to put the book down.  Some of the characters are hilarious and quite endearing, particularly Tehol and Bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47528868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tehol and Bugg made my day, time after time. They are probably the best characters in this book. They add humor to the intrigue. I did like the overall book and all it presented, especially in the form of the Trull-Rhulad conflict. I can't wait to keep reading the series!!!<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably my least favorite of the series. Not because it's written poorly, rather it's a break from other characters that I've spent 4 books getting to know.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recomendation from Terence ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The more I think about it, the more this book becomes one of my favorites in the series. Tehol and Bug are by far the funniest characters ever created. On multiple occasions I was this close (look at my fingers) to reading a passage of their dialogue to my wife, but decided against it. Not to mentio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40151109">more...</a>]]></body>
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