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Post by kesher on Nov 18, 2010 14:29:21 GMT -6
I just stumbled across mention of him here, and then read a bit of his stuff here.I'm not sure how I never heard of him before, but now I'm intrigued. What are your impressions? *oops---I just realized it's actually "Steven", not "Stephen"...
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Post by stonetoflesh on Nov 20, 2010 15:50:03 GMT -6
The Malazan world is really cool. Erikson's writing is pretty good, but the Book of the Fallen suffers a bit from the Torstop syndrome: large and cumbersome volumes, overlong, and (in places) underedited. He juggles a lot of plot threads in a single book with lots of characters and events, for better or worse. I've heard a lot of people disparage the series on the basis of the first book; admittedly that one is a bit of a slog, but once Erikson hits his stride there's some really great dark fantasy adventure to be had. Another option for exploring the Malazan setting is through the work of its other co-creator, Ian C. Esslemont; I wrote a little bit about his first book Night of Knives here.
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Post by kesher on Nov 22, 2010 11:45:09 GMT -6
Thanks for the insight and the link! I bought and started reading Gardens of the Moon. I can see how it might turn some off, especially if they're used to reading, say, Robert Jordan, but I'm grooving on it so far.
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