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Originally Posted by astra
Maybe...maybe...I will start reading him relatively soon 
I have a to-read-list that will last me for 1.5 year. Toll the Hounds will be published and Dust of Dreams will be almost written by then and I might start on the Malazan World.
Unfortunatelly, I am a very slow reader and I cannot afford to re-read a lot of books when there are so many unread books out there. Although, if the book is interesting I do not mind. But I am very choosy on the books I decide to re-read.
Anyway, I must confess that this sort of culture "fan forums" is completely alien to me. Reading a book was always like an intimate act  I cannot imagine what one can discuss about the series while reading them and they are not finished yet. I have never ever participated in such forum discussions before. What is there to dicuss? I either like the book/series or not. Sometimes(not always) I can state some reasons why I feel this way. That's it. Why Mr.A said to Mr.B that he hates him? Speculate what would happen if the king deployed his troops differently? It is a book. It is already documented. Everything is predefined by an author. The king deployed his troops this way because Steven Eriksson in his head invented it so. You see what I mean? I know it sounds odd, just like the fan forum idea sounds odd to me
On the other hand I am very curious about this series. More than in any other of the series that I keep an eye on. So, I am looking forwad for reading it and participating in the "fan" part of the Malazan forum |
On the Malazan forums a lot of people post just to try and figure out what's going on :P A guy just posted a few days ago, 100 pages into the "GotM", and asked if it was normal to be completely lost. The answer was a resounding yes. The thing with SE is that he throws you into the middle of a story that started a long time ago, and he defines very little. You just have to decipher how things work as you read. The other thing about SE is that most things aren't as they seem, and the more you realize that, the more you'll question yourself. Since the books are so complicated it's often difficult to remember tiny details from past books (that you'll suddenly realize are significant) so the forums become an excellent resource, especially if you don't want to re-read. At any rate, you'll see