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I was initially interested because I thought it was gonna be Anomander adventures.
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Oct 27, 2017 18:26
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Guyver posted:The reason Forge of Darkness and Fall of Light didn't sell well is pretty obvious to me. Except for the one scene with the sisters and the few with dragons the book was pretty mundane. Well as mundane as not-elves coming to terms with their newly minted corporeal goddess of darkness can get anyway. Don't get me wrong I really liked both of them but it didn't get the blood up like the stuff in BotF. Which is kind of sad because Walk in Shadow probably would have ramped the action up.
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Oh Snapple! posted:I was initially interested because I thought it was gonna be Anomander adventures.
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Oct 27, 2017 20:02
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Holy poo poo. I'm guessing the cancellation was at least partially due to Erikson not wanting to work on the trilogy or not knowing how to finish it. Fall of Light featured a lot of walking from place to place in circles with nothing much happening, sort of reminiscent of later ASOIAF.
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FoD and FoL were the best, fuckkkk waiting. Oh well at least I have Dancer's Lament.
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Oct 27, 2017 22:53
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:what makes a book "mundane" and why is it bad? And I didn't say it was bad, in fact I said I liked them both, but maybe it wasn't what fans wanted. Though apparently they thought of that angle and figured it wasn't the reason.
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I'm kinda sad because I was really looking forward to more Hood backstory. But Karsa and the fallout from the main series is such a sweet alternative I can't really be too upset. I'm sure he'll get around to Walk in Shadow when he's ready.
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Oct 28, 2017 00:51
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Guyver posted:The gulf between magic assassin fights with demon dragon battles and not-elf religious politicking is pretty wide. Fair enough yeah, I don't want to be the local BraveLampyBoi or whatever his name is. I do wonder if starting a new trilogy is the best idea, especially if word gets out that he already has an unfinished previous one. We'll see!!
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Fair enough yeah, I don't want to be the local BraveLampyBoi or whatever his name is. If Brandon Sanderson can jump back and forth between his dozen different ongoing series, Erikson can do the same between the two (three with the sci-fi one) series he's got going now.
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Oct 28, 2017 12:40
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The difference is Erikson's stuff is actually good.
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Oct 28, 2017 18:21
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Gravity Cant Apple posted:....Bring on Karsa! is there real talk of a book about Karsa or just our hopes and dreams
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BraveJoe posted:is there real talk of a book about Karsa or just our hopes and dreams Uh yes this whole conversation is about how Erikson will write the first Karsa trilogy book instead of finishing the Tiste trilogy because of lovely sales.
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Hand Row posted:Uh yes this whole conversation is about how Erikson will write the first Karsa trilogy book instead of finishing the Tiste trilogy because of lovely sales. Yeah, dude, ffs why can't you just WITNESS?
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Oct 28, 2017 22:12
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Hand Row posted:Uh yes this whole conversation is about how Erikson will write the first Karsa trilogy book instead of finishing the Tiste trilogy because of lovely sales. I want Karsa over Tiste trilogy. can I have it now please?
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I don't think Erikson needs to search too hard for reasons that FOL didn't sell well, "it sucked" is a perfectly good reason all on its own.
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Karsa not doing much after Toll the Hounds was a letdown and I'm pumped for more Karsa. I hope he meets his dad and they hug.
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bucketybuck posted:I don't think Erikson needs to search too hard for reasons that FOL didn't sell well, "it sucked" is a perfectly good reason all on its own. żżż??? Mods?
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Seeing Karsa morph into a fatter version of Kruppe (whom I now dub Karppe) obsessed with blood-oil instead of pastries would be fun. Karppe attempting to be subtle in his homeland's confedracy of Teblor villages, but somehow always yelling out "WITNESS" whenever he tries to do something Eel-like would be epic.
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bucketybuck posted:I don't think Erikson needs to search too hard for reasons that FOL didn't sell well, "it sucked" is a perfectly good reason all on its own.
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Karsa has more personality than all the boring elf-creatures put together so I'm looking forward to more of him. He was one of the only characters that felt lively in Erikson's books. Most of his characters seem weighed down by the momentous events in his intricate world. Whereas Karsa was like "gently caress this imma change things."
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Nov 7, 2017 03:22
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The most alive person in Fall of Light was the utterly confused elf kid out for vengeance that ended up wargaming out the darkness/light battle for Kharkanas throne.
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:The most alive person in Fall of Light was the utterly confused elf kid out for vengeance that ended up wargaming out the darkness/light battle for Kharkanas throne. The worst ending to any of his books. A Convergence-less Convergence.
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I liked it.
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Fully doing the kharkanas light/dark throne battle would have led to a quadrology(with everyone + possibly everything else on the battlefield individually going super-saiyan) and even less of a ending for Fall of Light. Poisoned by his creations elfish armorer & utterly confused elf kid wargaming out the battle was Erikson avoiding the DavidWeber-battle-damage_action.txt writing trap. K'Rul maybe beta-testing Letheras City 0.3 and Hood doing a slow burn were interesting, and I look forward to Kevin J Anderson & Brian Herbert eventually finishing out the Kharkanas story for Erikson. For gods sake, that last part was equally part joke & part prophetic guess.
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FoL kinda suffered from slow-burning too many of the "big reveals," and not having Walk in Shadow to finish it up really sucks. T'iam and the Dragons (and the Tiste ascendant soletaken), and Hood's ascendancy are big mythic ties to the main series that didn't progress at all in FoL. Kurald Emurlahn being created and subsequently shattered is also huge in the Tiste mythology. The writing in the trilogy has been beautiful, but the plot is meandering at best.
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I'm fairly certain there are individual pages that'd score a full house on that. The epigraphs and poems I always feel bad about skipping - they're pretty good, but feel like they're scattered randomly, with barely any relation to whats going on.
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Nov 9, 2017 12:23
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I don't know why but "High functioning Hellian" killed me.
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Gravity Cant Apple posted:Bring on Karsa! YESSSSSSSSSSSS 
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I tried to recommend the Malazan series to someone on facebook and some nerds I don't know made fun of me for it. "It reads like a D&D campaign . . . but more of a slog!" I was very sad, it was quite a low point in my life. I thought everyone loved this series.
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Man I read new posts on Malazan thread and then I read 3 goons hating on that phenomenal FoL ending. The Redeemer needs to take all your bad opinions.
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Tokelau All Star posted:I tried to recommend the Malazan series to someone on facebook and some nerds I don't know made fun of me for it. "It reads like a D&D campaign . . . but more of a slog!" I was very sad, it was quite a low point in my life. I thought everyone loved this series. Eh, that viewpoint makes sense if they've only read GotM.
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snoremac posted:Eh, that viewpoint makes sense if they've only read GotM. Or are stupid.   at "Suddenly, T'lan Imass."
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Oh Snapple! posted:I don't know why but "High functioning Hellian" killed me.  That and Nefarias Bredd sighting.
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Nov 10, 2017 07:45
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drat it all I finished the book I was reading a day early. Now I don't really want to get into anything cause I just know I'm gonna tear into Deadhouse Landing tomorrow... Guess I'll reread some Deadhouse Gates! 
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Oathbringer and Deadhouse Landing will both hit my Kindle tomorrow. Why.
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I just realized I am like 3 books back. Forge of Darkness is the last one I read. Crap, what do I need to buy now?
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