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Originally Posted by AndrewH
Thank you. Aecardenas, that was a great review and gives me a little more insight into why people like this series so much. Dune, (Frank Herbert's books, not Brian Herbert's) is one of my all-time favorites. The Dune universe was incredibly complex, but at no time was I ever confused as to what was going on. While I don't need to be spoon-fed exposition every step of the way, I don't think a tiny bit is a bad thing.
I'm going to abandon Gardens of the Moon for now. I'll try again in a year or two.  |
Yeah, I will be the first to admit that Erikson's narrative is incredibly dense and complex. He's one of those writers who will put in a crucial detail in a sentence, and then bury that same sentence in a deluge of other details and descriptions. The result being that you might actually misunderstand a very important scene later on down the line because you had the misfortune of skimming over a tiny sentence.
it is definitely a series that requires repeated reading for fuller and deeper knowledge and appreciation. I liken it to reading Finnegans Wake or Ulysses, books that have its own logic and language and eccentricities. I'm one of those people who gets pleasure from finding unexpected treasures hidden deep inside a labyrinth prose.