Malazan Book Of The Fallen

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Intrinsic said:
Audiobooks are either amazing or catastrophic for me. You've got RC Bray for Expeditionary Force and what's his name on Dungeon Crawler Carl that I can dig, and then pretty much everything else that exits.
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I mostly do audiobooks for narrative fiction these days because I’m rarely sitting still at home. Exercise time, yard work, working on the house, road time is what gets filled by books. “Bad” readers don’t even bother me much anymore, because after a chapter or two, I can get used to anybody’s voice and pronunciation. Also a bonus for translations like Tolstoy or Dostoevsky where there are like 100 unpronounceable names in each book is that I get some idea of pronunciation.

I do try to read before bed as a method of winding down for the day, but I often just fall asleep after 5-10 pages.

I guess the TLDR is, give it those “bad” readers a chapter or two, and you might get used to enough to make it through the book.
 
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Seven Cities.

Assassins of assassins of assassins.

Meh.

Gonna be honest, Seven Cities is my least interesting landmass in the setting (especially since Chain of Dogs is mostly in the nameless wastes outside of the cities), but here's hoping Mallick's fat traitorous ass gets shanked.
 
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Finished reading. It's fine, I guess - neither exceptional nor a drudge.

Erikson is taking his sweet time getting to the Karsa Firework Factory. I was honestly wondering how he was going to wrap this up - as far as I recall, only one character appears in both books, and they weren't even named in the first- until looking into it I found out that this is now four books, not three.

I will say that I am slightly offput by the Marines' power levels - unless they're surprised, they're basically guaranteed to survive. Yeah, they all have magical talents now, but magical assassins and more still get killed in a blink.
 
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