[D'rek]

tiam, on May 28 2009, 12:18 PM, said:

[...] BH was the link book and weak at that [...]

WHAT?! BH is full of nothing but awesomesauce.
1- Tons of characters that have huge gonads but haven't done anything previously all pull out their dicks and start stirring shit up like mad (ie Karsa, Paran, Iccy, Apsalar etc.)
2- The 14th actually fights.
3- Crokus keeps whining for a bit, but then mellows out after some sex and gets disembowled.

are among the fantasmic reasons why reading BH is fantastic and orgasmic, but the ultimate reason that by itself and with nothing else makes BH better than all the other books in the series put together:

4- Banaschar steals money from dozens of temples and gets drunk every night for an entire year.

Lister of Smeg, on May 28 2009, 01:29 PM, said:

If this is right, I should change my vote to MoI because on my recent reread of the series I found it one of the hardest to plough through The siege of Capustan is still great but so much of the rest of it was dull (and I don't just mean the Mhybe).

I voted for RG, because on other boards it gets panned a lot and I just loved it. It's my third favourite behind DG and MT.

You'd be in a massive minority there anyways, though. Even if *you* personally don't like MoI, you can still see that an overwhelming majority of people here have it as their favourite, and thus it is not very divisive...

[Stradivarius]

i voted for gotm as stated earlier a lot of people only get this far then leave. but this was the book that started it all off for me! awsum book which drove me on to read the next. absolutly love this book. didnt find moc very good prob the weakest in the series for me

[Lister of Smeg]

D'rek, on May 28 2009, 07:49 PM, said:

Lister of Smeg, on May 28 2009, 01:29 PM, said:

If this is right, I should change my vote to MoI because on my recent reread of the series I found it one of the hardest to plough through The siege of Capustan is still great but so much of the rest of it was dull (and I don't just mean the Mhybe).

I voted for RG, because on other boards it gets panned a lot and I just loved it. It's my third favourite behind DG and MT.

You'd be in a massive minority there anyways, though. Even if *you* personally don't like MoI, you can still see that an overwhelming majority of people here have it as their favourite, and thus it is not very divisive...

The question in the poll, however, was: "Book which you diagree most with the consensus". So I should really have voted for MoI. I didn't really think of it when I did vote though.

[D'rek]

Lister of Smeg, on May 28 2009, 04:08 PM, said:

D'rek, on May 28 2009, 07:49 PM, said:

Lister of Smeg, on May 28 2009, 01:29 PM, said:

If this is right, I should change my vote to MoI because on my recent reread of the series I found it one of the hardest to plough through The siege of Capustan is still great but so much of the rest of it was dull (and I don't just mean the Mhybe).

I voted for RG, because on other boards it gets panned a lot and I just loved it. It's my third favourite behind DG and MT.

You'd be in a massive minority there anyways, though. Even if *you* personally don't like MoI, you can still see that an overwhelming majority of people here have it as their favourite, and thus it is not very divisive...

The question in the poll, however, was: "Book which you diagree most with the consensus". So I should really have voted for MoI. I didn't really think of it when I did vote though.

So it is. Nevermind that then. I never read poll questions, it's my one and only flaw. A fatal flaw, in fact!

[RangerSG]

The book I deviate the most from the norm on is MT. I know lots of people love it. It's never done anything for me. So much of it was set up of the new area. But all of that seems to be redone in RG anyway. And given that, why did we need a whole book devoted to what could've been done in a section of RG and made both books tighter? So to me, if there's one book I ask "Why" about, it's that one.

I love 4/5ths of TtH. And after the Malazans appear in RG, it rocks. It's just that I feel like so much of MT could've been combined into the first part of RG. Just like when I read the Dark Tower I can't avoid thinking "The Song of Suzanna" could've have been merged into books 5 & 7 and nothing lost.

This post has been edited by RangerSG: 29 May 2009 - 06:35 AM

[blackzoid]

Wow man, we have opposite tastes. MT is my favourite Malazan book and Song of Suzannah is my second favourite DT book (after Drawing of the 3) Roland + Eddie adventures in our world = massive win.

It used to be that the book I didn't like that everybody seemed to like was Hoc, I hated the book because I realise I projected my hatred of the Karsa character onto the whole book, which wasn't fair. On the reread I was amazed by the book, it just works on so many levels and the ending is brilliant (I really liked the Ghost army kicking the Rebellion's ass).
Although I still hate the Karsa section at the start.

This post has been edited by blackzoid: 29 May 2009 - 11:44 AM

[foolio]

I freaking loved tBH. Absolutely my favorite. I am a sucker for Balm and Kindly interacting with their subordinates...

I like all of the books, but if I had to rank from least favorite being #1 then
1 ToTH
2 RG
3 HOC all the rape talk in the beginning just wore on me. I will probably get flamed but Karsa is such a dispicable bastard for the first 100 pages that I really almost quit reading, which would have been a huge mistake. After The first part of the book I think it got real good.


If this includes all Malazan books I could easily say that ROTCG is a steaming pile of pigshit compared to the rest of the series. NoK is OK.

[RangerSG]

foolio, on Jun 3 2009, 09:32 AM, said:

If this includes all Malazan books I could easily say that ROTCG is a steaming pile of pigshit compared to the rest of the series. NoK is OK.

I've sat down with the ICE books at the store and tried reading them. I don't see them at anywhere the same level. Heck, I can't bring myself to want to spend money on them yet. And I wish he'd leave established characters alone. Whenever he touches a known major character, it seems they turn utterly two dimensional and almost unrecognizable.

[Aooga]

I have to be honest - I didn't understand half of what went on in TTH. To be fair I burned through all the books in a couple of months and so that will definitely impact on the comprehension. Right on on my first re-read of all books. Taking it nice and slow, no rush and not only am I enjoying it more second time round, i'm picking up on stuff I totoally missed before. On HoC now so let's see if by the end of TTH I totally 'get it' all.

[Salt-Man Z]

I loved TtH and hated RG. (An exaggeration on both counts, but still.)

Not sure which view goes against the general consensus the most.

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 01 July 2009 - 04:57 PM

[AlanH]

I voted for RG because it is the one I think some people don't like, but I thought it was fantastic. I thought about voting fot TtH for the same reason.

[Winter]

I definitely had to vote for Toll the Hounds. While it seems that a lot of people on other boards find it the weakest book yet, I had not a single issue with it and enjoyed it immensely. Then again, I also diverge from the other consensus that the books start going downhill after either MoI or MT (I've seen both), as I consider the latter novels to be better than the earlier ones (with Midnight Tides and The Bonehunters my favorites).