onefinemess | August 20, 2011
by: Steven Erikson I finally finished the series! Questions are answered! Closure is provided! OK, so… those things are technically “true”, but also mostly false. SOME questions are answered, most aren’t. SOME closure is provided (random stuff like Whiskeyjack & Korlat). I’m on the fence. I mean, everything that happened was pretty badass and glorious [...]
onefinemess | August 10, 2011
by : Steven Erikson And now: back to our regularly scheduled Malazan reading. Only one more book to go! The middle 2/3 of this book was slow – perhaps purposely slow (and the author admits that it doesn’t follow “standard novel structure” or something like that in the intro), and therefor took me a while [...]
onefinemess | July 27, 2011
by: Jim Butcher So. 300 pages into Dust of Dreams (Malazan #9) and this comes out. I’d forgotten – I’m glad I put all the new book release dates I care about in my calendar! Anyway, I took a 10 or or so detour through Dresdenland on my way through Malazan – like I could [...]
onefinemess | July 18, 2011
by: George R. R. Martin There will be some spoilers. You have been warned. First off, let me say that this was not the best book ever. FOR ME. I’m sure plenty of people will love it. I think it works great as a piece of something larger but, for me, it did not work [...]
onefinemess | July 13, 2011
by: Ian C. Esslemont I should have written this last night, before I started A Dance with Dragons, because now that’s mostly what’s on my mind… but let’s see what I can recall. ARGH. WordPress 3.2.1 made my dashboard even less functional and obnoxious. Wait, what? BOOK? Right. OK. This book was not awesome. It [...]
onefinemess | July 7, 2011
by: Steven Erikson There may be more spoilers here than in my other Malazan review/rambles because there’s a lot to talk about and some of it would just look silly were I to dance around things. Well. This was a strange one, for a number of reasons. First: The weird Kruppe narrations that open most [...]
onefinemess | July 2, 2011
by: Steven Erikson Wow. You know Erikson always has to be killing people (especially out of nowhere) … but some of them still hurt. Especially because I think this one – the last one (one of the “big” ones) – does not come with the resurrection clause that has brought so many others back on [...]
onefinemess | June 25, 2011
by: Ian C. Esslemont First things first: this was definitely an improvement over Night of Knives. There was a ton going on (it was like 2.5x as long) and it even got to use some of the more familiar characters. In fact… I’m amazed that what happened with the Empire happened here instead of in [...]
onefinemess | June 18, 2011
by: Steven Erikson Oh. This was good. Very good. An interesting kind of good… if only in contrast to the rest of the series. The kind of good that can only happen in a series. I mean, I suppose it could happen with enough build up in one book BUT this book is 1200 pages. [...]
onefinemess | June 14, 2011
by: Ian C. Esslemont OK, so it wasn’t much of a break, I finished this in an afternoon/evening. Also, I’m betting that “Ian C. Esslemont” is not a pen name (Erikson is). That’s just too much name to be made up. ORIZIT? DUNDUNthissstupid. Stop it! Silly. Right. Where was I? The book. There’s not much [...]
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