13th September 2005, 10:07 PM
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16th September 2005, 11:27 PM
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| The Wicked Sword Maiden  |  Re: Just started Quote:
  I have only just finished Chapter One of Memories of Ice, being kept rather busy at the moment what with one thing or another. So far I haven't been confused at all (not like GOTM), so hopefully this WILL be the book that I have been told, on more than a few occassions, is the one that will really get me hooked. | |
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16th September 2005, 11:52 PM
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| The Wicked Sword Maiden | Re: Just started Quote:
Our taste in literature must be slightly different I would say. | |
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17th September 2005, 01:43 AM
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| Pallid, Lumigoth  Join Date: Jul 2004
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| Re: Just started Maybe the probalem, Rosemary, is that you're taking too long to read chunks of the books... I read them straight through, no breaks, personally, but thats because I'm loonier than most of the nuts in the Democratic Republic of Cashew... |
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17th September 2005, 06:26 AM
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| The Wicked Sword Maiden | Re: Just started Well, I don't read other books at the same time, but I do take breaks now and again, like when I have a shower or do the housework sort of thing! It is or has been taking a long time to read because Erikson has dumped too many characters, countries, intrigues, wars, blood and guts and a little bit of magic right in the first few chapters..... You must feel right at home here then - Where is the Democratic Republic of Cashew? Somewhere in Malazan  |
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17th September 2005, 11:44 AM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Jun 2005
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| Re: Just started Erikson starts in the middle - it is a bit confusing at the start, but I prefer that to novels starting right at the beginning and detailing all of the background and forgetting about the plot. @caladanbrood - like your title! One of the Malazan bumper stickers? |
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18th September 2005, 02:26 AM
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| Re: Just started Let's face it, Erikson rules, end of story...... By placing or dropping us into the middle of a situation and a fully realised world rather than explaining the background story in a more linear nature, for me he makes the story seem more believalable because it has less of a premeditated sense to it and more of a natural feel in terms of us the reader suddenly becoming a fly on the wall and having to discover what is going on rather than us being directly told what is going on, much like a traditional storyteller would do with their audience. In this way the story of GOTM in the first few hundred pages felt more like I was reading or viewing a defiitie reality somewhere rather than the more traditional feling of this being a 'fantasy' novel of a made up world generated by the author's imagination. Sorry it's Sunday morning here, so I hope I'm making some sort of sense LOL!....  |
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18th September 2005, 10:05 AM
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| The Wicked Sword Maiden |  Re: Just started Quote:
 I think you have been reading too many Erikson books! Seriously though, I am begining to realise how right you were about MOI. Another couple of chapters later and I am still enjoying this book! | |
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19th September 2005, 12:26 AM
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| Pallid, Lumigoth Join Date: Jul 2004
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