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Steven Erikson does not make it easy for his readers. Reading fantasy never felt so much like doing homework.
Still, I could not put it down.
This is really epic: powerful characters, story lines that change the face of the world, and a enormous cast. The world and it's history feel big and real.
(I'm so happy there's the internet now: with the amount of characters and story lines to keep track of, I'm glad I could check Goodreads and the Malazan wiki.
I will finish the complete series one day, but ...more
Still, I could not put it down.
This is really epic: powerful characters, story lines that change the face of the world, and a enormous cast. The world and it's history feel big and real.
(I'm so happy there's the internet now: with the amount of characters and story lines to keep track of, I'm glad I could check Goodreads and the Malazan wiki.
I will finish the complete series one day, but ...more
Mar 11, 2025
Darren
rated it
did not like it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
sword-sorcery,
military
Okay, it didn't really take me 13 years to finish this book. I still haven't finished it, after 13 years. It took me 13 years to stop feeling bad about how much I don't like it, and that I truly do not want to finish it.
The first time I gave up on it, I felt like it was deliberately trying to be obscure, and I couldn't be bothered, after a while. I picked it up years later and just powered through this. I understand it better now, but like it less. About the time I started to pretty much get wh ...more
The first time I gave up on it, I felt like it was deliberately trying to be obscure, and I couldn't be bothered, after a while. I picked it up years later and just powered through this. I understand it better now, but like it less. About the time I started to pretty much get wh ...more
The Malazan world is a fantasy realm created by Steven Erikson. I decided to start this series over even though I years ago read the first two volumes in the series. I note that I rated this book three stars back in 2012, but I have changed my opinion about the world building as well as the writing. The plotlines are a bit chaotic weaving a web of patterns that often can be confusing even for people rereading the book. Erikson has a tendency to not explain the origins of entities or the politics
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I really wanted to like this book. I'd heard great things about it, but I found myself disappointed the further I read. The characters are, for the most part, your basic everyday fantasy archetypes, although there are a few exceptions. The plot was slow paced and predictable. The romance forced and unnatural. However, I would not call Erikson a bad writer. I liked his prose, his dialogue was quite good and his world building his impressive. It's just that I could not shake the feeling that he'd
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the definition of epic fantasy. the definition of complexity. the definition of a kickass story.
May 06, 2012
J.W. Wright
marked it as to-read
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review of another edition
Shelves:
fantasy-science-fiction,
owned
