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I just noticed that the last post was about six months ago
Haven't posted for a while... but I got Gardens of the Moon for my birthday and I am waiting for an opportunity to buy Deadhouse Gates. I am not as far through the series as the rest of you, not having the financial means at my disposal with which to stock up on the rest of the books, but I'd like to add something to the general feeling of awe that this post has built up. The climax to Gardens of the Moon was f**king the best thing I have read, ever. Over the last couple hundred pages I could start to see the different threads come together, and I actually felt genuinely nervous as it all started to center around Dajhuristan, which is not a feeling I often get when reading. I don't know how Erikson managed to hold so many plot threads in his mind as he wrote it, God knows I could hardly manage to make sense of it (I had to stop every few chapters and assimilate what I had read!) but it is genius. Looking forward to Deadhouse Gates, you all seem to think it's the best... don't know how I'll cope with new characters and places, but that's part of the whole attraction of the series, I think. Amazing stuff.
I also got A Game of Thrones, which was brilliant too in a different way. To my mind it had more solidity to the plot, and it was definitely easier to read. Martin is also an excellent author, although I would agree with what other people have said on this post, that his prose has less of a unique style to it than Erikson's. I don't think we can really compare the two, because they are trying to do different things with their books, and they are both sublime anyway. Fantasy is so amazing...
Whew!