The Healthy Dead discussion

#101 Dancer+

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Posted 01 November 2007 - 07:08 PM

I started and finished The Healthy Dead last night, allowing me to somehow fit it into the halloween theme.

I read it quickly, and I was tired. But it had its moments, I'll give it another go somewhen along the line.

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Posted 13 November 2007 - 07:26 PM

Holy Thread Necro, Batman!!

I thought it was good aswell. The thing that disturbed me was the sudden appearance of demons connected to human nature.

It was sort of out of character for the Malazan Pantheon. I did like the slothdemon though.

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Posted 03 December 2007 - 04:06 PM

I read it so quickly, and when I was so tired I never took much in.

What was your favourite part?

I wish to absorb more of the humour and decoreum next time. It was a thread necro, but it was necessary. Either thread necro or thread birth, both strictly relevant in today's sadistic world.

#104 Skywalker

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Posted 16 January 2008 - 11:50 PM

I finished it a couple of days ago... and it is my least favorite of the 3 B&KB novellas. Let me explain why... there are 3 factors that excite me about SE/ ICE's novellas:

1. Convergence - tHD didn't have the sense of convergence that characterizes all things Malazan for me. Blood Follows had it... The Lees of Laughter's End had it... NoK had it... and of course all the seven main sequence books have it. The Healthy Dead felt a little... loosely knit. There was no real sense of things converging, or of menace... I also found the names confusing a-la RG.

2. World-building - Quaint is off in a corner of the world... maybe way too remote for me. So there were no glimmers of information in tHD unlike in BF/ tLoLE where:

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3. Humor - tHD just wasn't as funny as Lees (Briv, Briv, and Briv :rolleyes:

). I wasn't laughing at all except that one time when Sloth gets buried under Gluttony.

So yeah... rates a 5 on a scale of 10

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Posted 19 June 2011 - 02:33 PM

Agreed, MUCH preferred the other two stories, with tLoLE as my fave. Something about tHD just didn't resonate the way the other two stories do.

That said, Can't wait for Crack'd Pot Trail!

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Posted 19 June 2011 - 03:51 PM

Strange. It seems I'm the only one here who actually thought The Healthy Death was the best one. I simply loved the nonsensical feel it had.

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 04:43 AM

Bauchelain the Evil, on 19 June 2011 - 03:51 PM, said:

Strange. It seems I'm the only one here who actually thought The Healthy Death was the best one. I simply loved the nonsensical feel it had.

I liked the overall plotness and theme of it better than BF or tLoLE, but I found the individual jokes and circumstances not quite as humourous as the previous two.

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 03:53 AM

Healthy Dead was my favourite of the first 3 novellas.

I really have to read Lees again though, because I was in the middle of a 12 hour flight and in a really bad mood when I read it, so I probably didn't like it as much as I should have.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 02:30 PM

LEES remains my fave of the first three.
HD has a great ending and benefits from more Bauchelain, but i found the build-up to be more fun in LEES.

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Posted 18 August 2013 - 08:51 AM

Finished the first omnibus (atleast it says 'Vol I' on the cover!) and I thought all three novellas were well worth the read. HD was, by far, my favourite of the three, with BF and Lees following, possibly in that order. I thought HD was ridiculously funny, BF was brooding, atomospheric, vaguely noir-like, and Lees strange (in a good way) and, at times, disturbing.

Btw, what's with all the duplicate posts in this thread?

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Posted 03 September 2013 - 07:22 PM

The Healthy Dead was also my favourite until I read CRACK'D POT TRAIL!!

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Posted 31 January 2015 - 06:57 AM

Just finished reading the first three novellas (Christmas present).

Stuck between Lees and Healthy Dead for a favourite - I just thoroughly enjoyed the fitness junkie bashing. Any book which opens "A warning to lifestyle fascists everywhere - don't read this or you'll go blind" has my attention immediately!

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