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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Book one done, one question. Did I miss the chapter where Lorn and the old dude opened the way for the Jager? I remember them finding the tip of the standing stone then many chapters later they were at the masquerade party. Zero explanation, they it was attacking and then defeated by roots of some kind. ENDLESS loose ends and threads that go everywhere, book two onwards better has some cohension to them.
 
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It describes Lorn and Tool’s descent into the ancient barrow, then Lorn chooses the acorn (finnest) amongst all the other items - Indiana Jones style. Not much description past that -Tool mentions that his Tellann Warren will have had its effect on the Omtose Phellack magic binding Raest, and that they should be long gone when he wakes.

Books two and three really set the scene for the overarching story. Don’t be deterred by some characters being missing - they show back up in Memories of Ice. Books two and three are concurrent stories.

Bout a third of the way through No Life Forsaken. Didn’t read whoever posted their thoughts yet, will come back after I finish. The Dramatis Personae were disappointing. But, not unexpected with Erikson
 
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Book one done, one question. Did I miss the chapter where Lorn and the old dude opened the way for the Jager? I remember them finding the tip of the standing stone then many chapters later they were at the masquerade party. Zero explanation, they it was attacking and then defeated by roots of some kind. ENDLESS loose ends and threads that go everywhere, book two onwards better has some cohension to them.
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Books 2-10 are more “cohesive” in the sense they were written more or less in sequence, whereas Book 1 was like 10 years before. So idea’s and direction kind of shifts and he’s ready to tell the whole story. There are persistent characters (until there aren’t), events, locations, etc but I’d say Book 2 really kicks off the series. That’s probably not totally fair but it is obvious the time lag between writing and the intent with scope.
 
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Hatorade said:
Book one done, one question. Did I miss the chapter where Lorn and the old dude opened the way for the Jager? I remember them finding the tip of the standing stone then many chapters later they were at the masquerade party. Zero explanation, they it was attacking and then defeated by roots of some kind. ENDLESS loose ends and threads that go everywhere, book two onwards better has some cohension to them.
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A LOT of SE is ROTFO (Read On To Find Out). Answering you feels like ruining part of the best parts of his books (to me). You get to a point where you go 'so THAT is what he was fucking talking about 4 books ago!' .

Also when you get to the point where it seems like you missed a LOT and something all new is going on, it's on purpose, don't give up. Oh man now I want to go read them all again!
 
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lol just a taste of tv Malazan Facebook group. Someone asked ChatGPT about the most powerful mage in Malazan and pretty much every comment is the same:

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