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Masonity posted:Given that Quick has (early series spoiler, I guess?) 6 other souls in him. it's entirely possible one of those was Andii. I obviously haven't read tCG, but I don't feel like if one of his souls was Andii, and in fact the son of a Draconus/MD coupling, that he would have agreed to join Quick Ben's "body." That kind of mage would be incredibly powerful, and it'd be logical that they would all join HIM, and not vice versa. I also can't see how the bridgeburners could possibly chase down and kill members of that 'cabal' in the desert prior to the series if one of them was essentially a god ling. So what I guess I am saying is that I disagree with your theory. Though with the wording 'mother' and such that you cite from tCG, I feel like while I still disagree with your theory, it is obviously touching close enough to the issue to make me super curious to know
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2011 21:22 |
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Juaguocio posted:I think you're right. In DoD Feather Witch casts her tiles while Icarium's "ghosts" are trying to figure out how to use Kalse Rooted. One of the new tiles she comes up with is two-sided: Fury/Starwheel. Fury is what its name suggests, but Feather Witch says that Starwheel is "time unraveled," or something to that extent. This new tile is obviously Icarium, who has a pivotal role in the emerging pantheon. If we combine this little tidbit with what Calm says to Mappo about the true purpose of Icarium in the plans of the Nameless Ones, it seems like Icarium is more like a force of nature than anything else. I just read your spoiler because you started it with "in DoD" and there were tCG spoilers in there
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2011 03:19 |
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Steven Erikson: His fans no longer expect nor desire a happy ending
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2011 20:46 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm thinking about finally picking up this series for plane flight reading. Two questions: is it available on kindle, and, after looking at that graphic at the start of the thread, is there a "best accepted" reading order? Just go by the numbers? I can't see in what life you'll finish this series if it's for "plane reading," just sayin.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2011 13:47 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I've got two 30 hour plane flights coming up to New Zealand and back, and I read ~1000+ pages a day when I'm reading pulp fiction. So I need something with enough bulk to keep me occupied :P Good luck. Malazan doesn't read as quickly as your typical pulp fiction.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2011 16:48 |
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qbert posted:I just finished Reaper's Gale last night. Really fantastic throughout, probably one of my favorite of the series. I enjoyed RotCG. It's not bad at all as nice boy said.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2011 21:16 |
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Waddley Hasselhoff posted:Yeah, you're right. His ending made me cry happy tears for the first time (for him.) I feel like if Rhulad had books in his perspective during his countless times being killed he would be more tragic, but for the reason you listed that Toc is so fleshed out, we feel for him more.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2011 03:54 |
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Wallet posted:I can't remember exactly where but someone in TCG mentions that it was a willing sacrifice. I wonder if they had a big roast...
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2011 13:13 |
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Decius posted:Jaghut: far, far more slender than orcs, very pronounced tusks They are not like elves, christ.
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2011 14:21 |
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Vanilla Mint Ice posted:Is there a website somewhere that summarizes all the plot stuff that happens in ICE's books? So the rest of us don't have to suffer reading through supposedly mediocre writing. I hate stuff like this. "suffer through supposedly mediocre writing." Agh. ICE is better than or at least equal to almost every other fantasy author out there. He's no Erikson which is the main problem since they are the same universe, but honestly just read them (except NoK).
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2011 14:24 |
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the periodic fable posted:a lot of us disagree with you. i think ICE is a bad author by any standard. Shrug. The point is that it's Malazan Universe. If I wanted to read something by a 'better' author, then I would...but it's not Malazan and therefore I care less at this point in time.
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2011 16:18 |
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Boogle posted:Is there a hardcover set that I can purchase with the kickass UK covers, because I'm not paying cash money for the lovely TOR/US Publisher covers. Do hard cover even exist for this series? I've literally never seen a single hard back malazan book
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2011 16:54 |
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Juaguocio posted:I'm guessing they'll figure into ICE's Darujhistan novel at the very least. I don't imagine they'll have any part to play in Erikson's Kharkanas trilogy but maybe they'll eventually show up in his Toblakai books. They do appear in RotCG as well, if you haven't read that already. That reminds me, do they ever discuss the pickled seguleh at any point other than....whichever book they happened to be in?
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# ¿ May 2, 2011 14:47 |
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the periodic fable posted:only semi-related but there's a reference to the Black Company series by Glen Cook in the Witcher 2, a medic/surgeon called Croaker in the field hospital in the Kaedweni camp in chapter 2. gave me a chuckle. Why are you spoilering something unrelated to malazan? So I'm still on book 2 of my reread before I planned to tackle tCG...and I got stuck because the series is so drat long I don't have time to read 10,000 pages right now, but I don't want to start tCG until I finish.
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# ¿ Jun 7, 2011 12:29 |