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Back at it! I absolutely refuse to not finish this series by year’s end. Of the many parts of this that went over my head the first time, the part where Coll encounters the Knight of High House Death was the most nerdgasm-inducing.

I was helping my parents move and one of my family members threw my paperback copy of this into some random box now 100+ miles away, when I had like 200 pages left.

The twin-souled, life sucking Silverfox drops SERIOUS fucking knowledge on the Four Founding Races, yet gives us jack shit on the maddeningly mysterious Assail. This is why St. Alia Syndrome characters drive me nuts. That said, this shit is fantastic.

Would y'all disagree if I called the siege of Capustan the epic fantasy Stalingrad?

Trotts throws the dice among the White Face Barghast while Septarch Kulpath's army and the Tenescowri trap Gruntle and Stonny Menackis with the Grey Swords in Capustan. Man, even brief summaries of this stuff reeks of epic. Also, ancient undead dinosaurs with sword arms.

Fuck all the other gods, all you need is Burn and K'rul.

For some reason, I COMPLETELY fucking forgot that there were any Darujhistan characters in this. It's also hilarious how a dude like Kallor with one of the most ridiculously epic of resumes is still only second string to Caladan Brood.

The scene where Tool makes arrows for Toc the Younger is awesome. Ancient undead craftsmanship is my shit.

You know an epic fantasy author isn't fucking around when the prologue of one of their books is set "298,665 years" before just the start of the actual story's CALENDAR. The prologue to Deadhouse Gates is unforgettable but I think this is my favorite prologue from all of the Malazan books I've read so far. Shit is mind-bendingly ancient and alien feeling.

"Drunken oblivion was, each time, a small, temporary death. Hood walked where the self once stood, and the wake of the god's passage sickened mortal flesh afterwards." Gamet has the best conception of hangovers ever.