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#1741 Loki

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 01:22 AM

Welcome PainBringer!

Glad you are enjoying the series. Good to have another artist join the forum, I love the stuff you guys come up with. Any questions, don't be afraid to ask.

Welcome!

(P.S. I totally wanted Serbia to win Eurovision this year

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Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#1742 Tusck

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 05:36 PM

Hey all, Tusck reporting in from East Coast, USA. My sister actually put me on to this series about a year and a half ago. It took me a bit to get into, but after it started clicking, I can't put it down. Currently I'm about 25% thru House of Chains and really enjoying it.

The reason I'm here is because as I read through the books, I have more and more questions and less and less answers.

#1743 Derelict

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 07:57 AM

Hello Malazans, a new recruit from Romania here. I started reading Gardens of the Moon in September and I finished Midnight Tides a few days ago. It is going slow from lack of free time but man do I love this universe. The character I can best relate to is Trull Sengar. It's like SE is describing me in there. Well, except physically, that is ...

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Oh, and I loved the Serbian song for Eurovision too. :lol:

#1744 Loki

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 08:34 AM

Welcome Tusck!
There are many different threads here that look at explaining all different aspects of the series. And if you can't find what you're looking for always feel free to start your own thread. :lol:

Welcome Derelict!
Glad you are enjoying the series! Also, I'm listening to Mandinga - Zaleilah at the moment! (well I was but by the time I got to writing this part my playlist had moved onto Ott Lepland - Kuula). XD

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#1745 Derelict

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 02:40 PM

Thank you, Loki! I was listening to all Eurovision finalists playlist today also ! Good songs this year. Please tell me, how do you become Knight Commander of Team QB? :lol:

#1746 Loki

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 02:56 PM

Derelict, on 30 May 2012 - 02:40 PM, said:

Thank you, Loki! I was listening to all Eurovision finalists playlist today also ! Good songs this year. Please tell me, how do you become Knight Commander of Team QB?

It's a combination of dedication, hardwork, faithfulness and devotion to Quick Ben (with a little bit of shameless flattery thrown in for good measure :lol:

)

http://forum.malazan...c=21397&st=-19#

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#1747 Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 03:02 PM

One does not simply become Knight Commander of Team Quick Ben.

The love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain.

"Perhaps we think up our own destinies and so, in a sense, deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better." ― Iain Banks

#1748 Derelict

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 12:07 PM

I got it, guys : dedication, hardwork, faithfulness and devotion to Delat.

Loki, that heavy-artillery flattery you used on Silencer was fantastic ! :lol:

. Noone could have resisted !

#1749 TheLastAwl

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Posted 03 June 2012 - 02:06 AM

Guess I'm supposed to jump onto the introduction train. Just finished book ten; I'm about to start on the ancillary (adjunct?) books. This place seems like a good resource for all the shit I've forgotten over the last few months since GotM

#1750 Catherine

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Posted 03 June 2012 - 11:45 AM

welcome newcomers, enjoy the ride

#1751 jdarr

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 10:51 PM

So just starting Memories of Ice. Started the series a little less than a month ago and have been quite ino it since then. I find myslelf looking up certain aspects of the series, be they maps, or to help recall certain aspects of races, locations etc and came across this place. So here I am.....looking forward to delving deeper.

#1752 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 15 June 2012 - 03:41 AM

Welcome new members!

Feel free to ask questions or stop by chat! (Tell us where you are if you haven't finished the series yet in chat, though, don't want to spoil you).

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#1753 nanichaos

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 07:05 AM

HI All ,

I Just Bought Toll The Hounds and Started Reading it and it is Very Good , I am now interested in Reading the Series , i would like to know if i Should read the Previous Books Before i read toll of Hounds or i can continue this and go on to others next, please Advice

Thanks and Regards,
Nani

#1754 Loki

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 07:10 AM

I strongly advise starting at the beginning.

This post has been edited by Loki: 26 June 2012 - 07:10 AM

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#1755 worry

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:52 AM

If you don't start at the beginning, you'll be haunted by regret for the rest of your life.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#1756 Malbolge

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 07:48 PM

Greetings! Long time lurker, first time poster here... Native of Scotland, part of the British Empire. I'm a huge fan of the series, and slightly obsessed with the Malazan world at the moment. Having previously read the MBotF (all 10) from cover to cover last year*, and then ICE's 4 Novels of the Malazan Empire earlier this year, I found myself with nothing new to read one bank Holiday weekend, with no new books arriving for 2 days at least. Somehow, I was drawn to pick up GotM again, thinking I'd maybe read that, and then jump into the new books when they arrived (Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books). The Donaldson books are still untouched on my shelf, and I'm currently reading Reaper's Gale as the 9th book of the combined Malazan works (I've read the previous 6 MBotF books, NoK and RotCG so far) in the re-read. I decided to register, because I figured I might contribute to some threads, that sort of thing.

* I harboured an abiding aversion to all Fantasy literature until December 2010, caused by an unfortunate incident with a Hobbit when I was 12 years old. This was cured by a month snowed in my house, with naught but the first 4 volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire for company... then the first 12 or so books of the Wheel of Time... then Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy and following books... before falling headfirst into Gardens of the Moon, and all that follows, last May. Then some Glenn Cook when that ran out... followed by some R Scott Bakker, more Glenn Cook, the ICE Malazan books, 2 more WoT books, some Scott Lynch. Safe to say the aversion to Fantasy is over.

#1757 worry

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 08:10 PM

Surprise!

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#1758 Falc

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 12:33 AM

Hello Fellow Lovers of the best series of Epic Fantasy that I have read in my years of reading fantasy. I humbly enter the doorway to Hood's Gate and toss a cusser

to announce my entrance as Fiddler plays a Dirge of a broken melody.Hail!! Hail!! Hail!! Bridgeburners

#1759 DrHalliwax

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:14 AM

I am so grateful to my cousin for introducing me to this amazing series last year on my birthday ( July 7th). Nearing my anniversary of that life changing experience I just finished OST last night, and am hungrily searching for information on when the next books will surface from their warrens.

#1760 deanna

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 04:37 PM

Hi everyone! My name is Deanna and I'm from NJ. I finished GotM about a week ago and I'm now more than halfway through Deadhouse Gates. So far I'm loving these books and can't wait to read the rest of the series. I came across this website and had to join! I've never really been on a website like this before, so I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of the series and getting to know everyone on here!