[Kahlan]

worry, on 17 September 2014 - 12:46 AM, said:

Just find a post by D'rek, follow that order, and don't argue unless you want your face replaced with your butt and vice versa.

lol, thanks, I'll keep that in mind..I generally don't argue, I just silently disagree. :-P

[D'rek]

Kahlan, on 17 September 2014 - 12:26 AM, said:

Greetings! I decided to join this community after finishing Midnight tides a few weeks ago.

I started reading this series about 14 months ago as I was about to embark on a vacation to the east coast. Waiting for my flight I realized I had not brought anything to read while away, and on a whim grabbed Gardens of the Moon on the airport book store...in retrospect it seems the man working the counter was likely a major malazan junkie, but at the time I just figured he was pushing a book he liked. Unfortunately I probably did not get to enjoy the vacation as much as I did the book. Not that GotM was fantastic, but more that I could see that the series had a lot of potential.

Some of you are wondering why I've just finished book 5 14 months later? I take my time, I read other books and series in between. After book two I realized I needed to savor this series, make it sort of a years long love affair if I could, so I restrain myself nicely. I'm also a bit of a writer (hack) and by reading several different authors I find inspiration and ideas about writing styles, etc.

I do have one question...can someone point me to the read order thread? I've just downloaded Night of Knives on my Kindle but haven't started it yet, and wanted ot make sure I have the right idea in mind for a good read order. :-)

Welcome aboard!

Savour the books as much as you can, in whatever way works best for you! If 14-months-per-book will give you the best enjoyment of them, then definitely do that! You only get to read this series for the first time once! (Until Abyss finally perfects that laser brain surgery operation he's been experimenting with...)

worry, on 17 September 2014 - 12:46 AM, said:

Reading Order threads mottle the board like maggots on a corpse, so you're in luck!

Here's two of them from this year, hope they help:
http://forum.malazan...-reading-order/
http://forum.malazan...-my-read-order/

Just find a post by D'rek, follow that order, and don't argue unless you want your face replaced with your butt and vice versa.

That wacky but tragic plastic surgery mix-up was years ago! The malpractice suits are over, the affected families have moved on, and the man in question is reportedly quite happy now (he is a chicken farmer and feels his new bodily layout allows him a unique perspective into pecking at piles of grain). Why do you have to keep bringing it back up?!



In all seriousness, the read order question comes up a lot now that the ICE books and FoD are interleaved, plus the Tor re-read having done things a bit differently... I think it may be time to setup a stickied, spoiler-free read-order thread here in the new members sub-forum just so it's nice and easy for folks to find the answer to that most-dire question. Project time!

[Senjak]

Hello new member here, but I've been reading the series since Gardens of the Moon was the only book in the series.

I've been mostly reading the series and looking for ways to expand role playing games with material from the books. For a while it seemed that Tristat would rock; however, that's a really, really dead game system. Now I mostly look to Savage Worlds to use as a starting place for game system adaptions of stuff I like to watch or read.

I had a long running Babylon 5 game (it ran from the second season till past the end of the series), a Company War universe game (CJ Cherryh), numerous Call of Cthulhu type games, other games too numerous to mention and I'm currentlly running a Battlestar Galacta based game set between the end of the Cylon War and the fall of the Colonies.

Now I will warn you that although I'm willing to share the rule sets that I pass out to the players none of it is 'pure' one series. I tend to add in stuff that I think is fun and adds to the background of the games.

The Babylon 5 game had elements from Stargate and Star Wars.
The Company war had elements from Cherryh's Tree of Sword and Jewels and a bunch of Norse mythology thrown in. Oh, and Torchwood. And epic space battles with aliens from beyond time.
My Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green games have a lot of humor inserted into them

And my Battlestar Galactica game has much of the technology and enemies from Space Above and Beyond tacked on as pre-Cylon War technology. The Tanks and the Silicates *are* in the game. Everyone's just focused on the final end product of the development, the Cylons.

Running a Mazalan empire game would be fun, at least with the right group. I think the magic can be duplicated in Savage Worlds without too much difficulty, and the rest is covered. I just haven't sat down and figured out the right hook to get the players involved yet.

Like I said, I'm happy to share what I've put together, as long as you realize that I'm more focused on 'fun' than accuracy. Fun trumps all in the games I run.

Later!

Senjak

[D'rek]

Senjak, on 18 September 2014 - 05:14 PM, said:

Running a Mazalan empire game would be fun, at least with the right group. I think the magic can be duplicated in Savage Worlds without too much difficulty, and the rest is covered. I just haven't sat down and figured out the right hook to get the players involved yet.

Start them all at the Pale Enfilade so they all die in the first few minutes...?

[K'chain Paladin]

Hello all, I am K'chain Paladin. I started reading the series two years ago, and because of time constraints and the sort, I am currently on the Bonehunters. I really love this series, even though it can be confusing and long-winded at times. Other books I like are the Song of Ice and Fire series, the Harry Potter series, the Foundation series, fantasy and sci-fi in general, and I currently have started reading the Esselmont books with Night of Knives.

[BellaGrace]

Hello - I've been lurking here for a couple months now. I wish I had found this series and site back when "it was current content", but better late than never. I really love this series - probably my favorite of all time. I'm currently on Midnight Tides - which I had a really hard time getting into, but now it's gotten really good and I'm wondering why I ever disliked it to begin with! I'm already starting to feel worried that I'll never find another series that will ever measure up to these!

[alone in forest]

Hi, I've avoided as many forums as I could to avoid any spoilers when I began MBotF. Little over a year later here I am, just finished TCG, looking forward to checking out the board, maybe finding answers to the multitude of questions I have lingering at the forefront, and maybe even some I forgot to ask myself.

[Verrater]

New member.

thoughts on the series:

1. What did I just read??

2. It took me ~ 9 months to read the series the first time but I had to do a re-read afterward which only took me ~ 2 months

3. I am finding it hard to find anything else worth a damn to read. I went through a few other series recently and nothing realy seems to compare. I had to do a re-read of abercrombie to get into a lighter mood.

4. I found a website with a "fight" between Quick Ben and a "mistborn" character. The butthurt was off the charts when he won.

5. I wish the mask that Rake wore during the gala in GotM

Spoiler

[spoiler] was the mask he won from the seguleh [ /spoiler]

6. NoK was ok but I couldnt get through any of the other ICE novels. It took me 3 tries but i finally finished RotCG with some skipping of sections.

7. Why isnt fall of light out yet get to work SE!

[worry]

Hey you gotta admit...it's been one wild ride!! ;D

[Hood's Cheese]

Fall back to Terry Pratchett.

[Sunflower]

Hello everyone! Short-time lurker here. After I finished tCG. I decided to show up on the forums. I actually started reading the series three years ago, but then I got stuck at Midnight Tides. I gave Erikson a second chance last year, and this time I liked the books so much I had to read to the finish. Took me nine months since i would also read other books in the meantime, but I have to say I loved it. Now I'm about to start the Esslemont novels.

[Illuvatar81]

Hello all. Awesome site, used a little for character/story information while reading MBotF. Now that I'm done with the series I figured is join to be a part of the discussion.

Like most I started with Tolkien, and the Hobbit, next was forgotten realms and Drizzt, than Wot and ASoIaF. Read most popular science fiction/fantasy that's available. From the go I loved GotM, and over the last two years have read through MBotF. Fantastic series by a really good author.

We'll look forward to seeing/reading/writing with you all.

[worry]

Sure. A whole lot of people join and say they'll become part of the discussion. Put your money where you mouth is. Have 100 posts made by the end of Friday Oct 24, or donate your next paycheck to my drop bear preservation Kickstarter.

[Illuvatar81]

Wow, what a challenge! I do hope to contribute AND participate, but I am active duty military and a husband of one, father of five. My paycheck goes first to God than my family, so to give any of that to bears would be tough. I have fed bears though, in the wild, does that help my cause any?

[Gorefest]

Depends whether it is the God(s) of the Beast Hold that receives your donations or the Crippled God.

[Illuvatar81]

Wow, and it's tough when I go a week with no replies, is this place still alive?

[WinterPhoenix]

Hey, just started reading the Malazan books a little over a month ago, I am currently 700 or so pages into Deadhouse Gates, I would have read faster but I only picked up GotM as something to read while on holiday and didn't get all that much time to read it, plus I have to actually buy the books as I finish the preceeding novels, difficult on a non-existent salary. Anywho, am very glad to have found this place, for the advice on reading order (searching for a definitive answer to said question, is what led me to this site in the first place) as well as a place to discuss the books as I read them, which I have always enjoyed doing with series' - and seeing as I know no one else who has, or is likely to read them, this place must suffice. Confusing as GotM can be at times, almost from the very beginning I realised I had started a series I was going to have to finish, and enjoy doing so, am currently wondering whether I can restrain myself enough (though my ability to actually buy the books might see to that for me) to make the series last until GRRM finally releases the Winds of Winter. Just from what I have read so far of the series I can already see it's going to challenge ASoIaF for fantasy supremacy in my mind (I'll freely admit there are more than a few seminal works of fantasy I have yet to read though) ASoIaF is almost more of a political intrigue series really, kinda like GRRM read a history book and thought it would be a great idea to introduce dragons and a seething undercurrent of magic to the War of the Roses - I certainly don't disagree.

Anyways, I shall do my best to actually contribute to these forums, though from past experience it always feels a little overwhelming attempting to join a forum so late in the game, as it were. On more than one occasion I have joined forums only to find almost a sort of caste system in place whereby the members with the earliest join dates and largest numbers of posts have what almost seems like a secret cabal that new members cannot help but feel alienated from - inevitably they complain about the lack of new members killing the forum as well. I suppose it is basic social interaction really, warped by the setting of the internet. Man that sounded pessimistic and depressing, I apologise

Anyways, the name's WinterPhoenix or Rob if you will and I am glad to be here

[worry]

There's no caste system here. Everyone's nuts.

[WinterPhoenix]

Ah so it's who's the most nuts then?

[Illuvatar81]

Welcome Rob, I have finished the series but like you just joined, from your posts in the Gotm forum I see your literary knowledge may be a but past mine. I look forward to discussing the books with you as you go through them.