Especially since I was mostly just agreeing with what you said in the first place. 
Yeah, I thought so too. That happens when I write answers late in the evening
I meant to chop it down to a few things the next morning, but I forgot and it post instead.Not much to add to all that, except that I'm curious to see what you'll think of the series by book seven or eight - some people remain fervent fans, but most seem to feel that despite GotMs weakness and HoC's relative weakness, the first half of the series is the better half by a long shot.
That will probably depend how much he manages to draw my interest along the way. If he really hooks me, then I might very well enjoy his slower, not very eventful books (if I recall, one of those you speak of has been dubbed Erikson's CoT by some). As it happens, in complex series with tons of details and great worldbuilding, I'm usually the type who prefers the later books to the earliest books. To me, COT is one of the more enjoyable books in WOT, by far superior as I judge such things to anything published before LOC. And my favourite Dune was always Chapterhouse. My "road block" in WOT have always been EOTW and TGH, and with anything before Aragorn in LOTR, and so on. I'm not a reader who likes beginnings all that much!
And speaking of road blocks, I've beat my record and finished GOTM in under two weeks for the first time (past record was maybe 2 months). Now I'm 300 pages into DHG a day later and having fun. Hopefully, I will get to those books 7-8 through the summer.
Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont, Malazan Book of the Fallen (series reviews)
- 17/05/2010 01:09:47 PM
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Gardens of the Moon (2002-2005 re-reads; 2010 re-read)
- 17/05/2010 01:10:14 PM
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I have the same experience with rereads of Erikson always bringing new things to the fore.
- 17/05/2010 01:32:28 PM
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Re: I have the same experience with rereads of Erikson always bringing new things to the fore.
- 19/05/2010 02:12:42 PM
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MT was just as good as those two, IMHO of course.
- 21/05/2010 12:29:22 PM
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Re: MT was just as good as those two, IMHO of course.
- 21/05/2010 03:39:10 PM
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For me, GotM remains a half-failure
- 22/05/2010 06:05:30 PM
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I think even most fans of the series will agree with you there.
- 22/05/2010 07:32:25 PM
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Re: I think even most fans of the series will agree with you there.
- 23/05/2010 10:32:49 PM
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Ye gods, that reply was long.
- 27/05/2010 04:20:35 PM
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- 27/05/2010 04:20:35 PM
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Re: Ye gods, that reply was long.
- 27/05/2010 10:57:00 PM
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- 27/05/2010 10:57:00 PM
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Oh, it's not about a lack of action.
- 28/05/2010 08:56:48 AM
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I'm pretty sure that I found MbotF from Wotmania, so thanks for that.
- 17/05/2010 03:28:08 PM
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Never quite thought of Erikson's series as being akin to screwing in the backseat...
- 18/05/2010 07:14:01 PM
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It's not my cup of tea. Good luck reading it!
- 19/05/2010 03:42:08 PM
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I've got to ask.
- 20/05/2010 08:56:14 PM
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Fans of the series told me that "Gardens of the Moon" isn't a good book to start with.
- 21/05/2010 10:47:52 PM
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Deadhouse Gates (2002-2005 reads; 2010 re-read)
- 21/05/2010 06:13:47 PM
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I find myself...
- 06/06/2010 03:21:07 AM
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Memories of Ice (2002-2005 reads; 2010 re-read)
- 27/05/2010 08:47:02 AM
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As I posted in your blog RE: Themes.
- 27/05/2010 05:25:19 PM
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I was going to respond later today to those 
- 27/05/2010 05:39:38 PM
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- 27/05/2010 05:39:38 PM
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The Pannion Seer had been brainwashed by the Crippled God, he was a slave to his will. Inocent
- 27/05/2010 06:34:05 PM
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