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On to Book 3 (of this book)!!

"...[W]e warn our fee on the second day... Yesterday the Gottwalds were the stunned and grateful progenitors of a mewling miracle. Today [they] are the smug bastards they've probably always been. and the Gottwald baby, well, he, might be only two days old, but I can already predict he's going to be a miserable little turd."

"The oars clacked in counterpoint to the thundering drum. The wind arrived like a gasping exhalation, and the storm was upon them."

So far, the female characters in the first two Malazan Books of the Fallen are awesomely badass!!

“Indolence takes many forms, but it comes to every civilization that has outlived its will. You know that as well as I. In this case it was an indolence characterized by a pursuit of knowledge, a frenzied search for answers to everything, no matter the value of such answers. A civilization can as easily drown in what it knows as in what it doesn’t know.”

Excerpt From: Erikson, Steven. “Deadhouse Gates.” TOR, 2000.

My currently reading shelf: "What, another new book?! Why don't you finish one before starting a new one?!"

Me: "I give up; what's the answer?"

An epic confrontation is fast approaching. And if you don't think Anomander Rake is badass, I'm sorry, but we just can't be friends.

[contd.] The threads really start coming together halfway through, which is also about the time you really get to know these characters and realize there is some incredibly complex narrative magic taking place. Suffice it to say, I'm VERY interested to see how things start playing out!

OK, quick and random musings: the writing in the Malazan book is great! It's enough to keep you going despite the fact that it -- like so many other have noted -- tosses you directly into the fray. You've no earthly idea what exactly is happening early on, but that turns out to be a strength of the book.