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caladanbrood said:
...I'm so confused most of the time anyway...
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...confusion indicates that one is wrestling with the truth—which may end up even more confusing than what one would have first thought.
 
cyborg_cinema said:
...confusion indicates that one is wrestling with the truth—which may end up even more confusing than what one would have first thought.
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Would you care to repeat that in layman's terms please cyborg?:p :)

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.:)
 
nixie said:
Just over a 100 pages to read in GOTM and I'm already hooked
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Well, as previously mentioned you must be a genius nixie! :)
Our taste in literature must be slightly different I would say.
 
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...
 
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 :D
 
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?
 
Let's face it, Erikson rules, end of story......:D

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!....:(
 
GOLLUM said:
Let's face it, Erikson rules, end of story......:D

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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Excuse me? :confused: I think you have been reading too many Erikson books!:rolleyes:
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!:)
 
Rosemary said:
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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Naturally......:p
 
Rosemary said:
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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Excellent news :D
 
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