Malazan Book Of The Fallen

Kajiimagi said:

Hmm for some reason I thought the Azath (and their houses) were much older than the 'Elder gods'. Well I guess that just goes to show why SE's power levels are what the need to be. Probably also why Hatorade was having a hard time getting into the books.

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Not really, superman is awesome because he is always as strong as he needs to be.

I slept on it and the biggest thing is number of characters multiplied by his skipping around at a break neck pace. If he would have stayed on any one character for longer or fleshed out a little more of the threads I would still be reading. It just became more and more questions with less and less answers.

It's been three weeks since I finished NLF and I barely remember anything about it. (I've read seven other books by others since, so that's also a me problem.)

Abstractly, I can see the objectives Erikson wanted to hit - update the status of the Seven Cities (still unstable and rebellious, though who knows what it looks like with a decent water table), the Empire under Mallick Rel (still savage and counter-productive, with local commanders still spending more time trying not to get shanked than upholding the greater good), resolving the Whirlwind (Erikson's changed his mind, forget it was a dangling plot point if you still remembered it was dangling), and giving us Babby's First Ascendancy with Va'Shaik so he can skip doing so with Karsa down the line.

The problem is very few of those threads are done in an interesting manner. I liked Bornu the best, but then I've always found the unwilling prophet an interesting concept, but beyond that I was really just intrigued by the margins of the margins (Is Tavore in charge of the Talons now?)

Honestly, it reminded me most of Esselmont's lesser entries - here's the homework for events they'd previously glossed over, with no interesting reveals.

Was cruising Reddit and someone said that:

There's a No Life Forsaken megathread on Reddit with lots of discussion about the book.

I haven't gone back into the book to look for a physical description yet. Someone in a different thread last night said something like "oh and Qui... I mean Hasten" did such and such or something along those lines, without any further context. Here's what I found in the megathread just poking around, haven't read the whole thread: