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#1421 Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast

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Posted 05 March 2011 - 10:47 PM

I know Alot, too!

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...sorry, carry on.

EDIT: Also, am I right in saying that you have a copy of TCG and you're coming here looking to find out what happens even though you haven't read the book yet? Each to his own, I suppose, but won't that just ruin the book for you?

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#1422 Kim Bookreader

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Posted 09 March 2011 - 12:48 PM

Hi, I'm also a huge fan. Like most here I guess

I really liked all books I've read sofar, and I'm really looking forward to any books that might come in the future!

I acctually started with Dust of dreams by mistake, was kinda confusing at first :admin:

Now that I've started from the beginning things are more clear....

Well met fellow fans!

#1423 King Bear

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Posted 09 March 2011 - 03:55 PM

Kim Bookreader, on 09 March 2011 - 12:48 PM, said:

Hi, I'm also a huge fan. Like most here I guess

I really liked all books I've read sofar, and I'm really looking forward to any books that might come in the future! :admin:

I acctually started with Dust of dreams by mistake, was kinda confusing at first

Now that I've started from the beginning things are more clear....

Well met fellow fans!

I can't imagine how confusing starting with DOD must have been. Hell, a lot of people find starting at the start confusing enough. Glad you stuck with it, and glad that you're glad that you did.

#1424 RathHood

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Posted 09 March 2011 - 08:29 PM

Hello I'm new here. Glad I found this forum, almost finished Memories of Ice. Still confused about many things regarding Malazan world(not as much though when I was just starting Gardens of th Moon), hope this site going to help me understand few more things.

#1425 miriya

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Posted 09 March 2011 - 08:46 PM

Kim Bookreader, on 09 March 2011 - 12:48 PM, said:

Hi, I'm also a huge fan. Like most here I guess

I really liked all books I've read sofar, and I'm really looking forward to any books that might come in the future! :admin:

I acctually started with Dust of dreams by mistake, was kinda confusing at first

Now that I've started from the beginning things are more clear....

Well met fellow fans!

Oh god yeah, I bet that was super-confusing, haha. Glad to have you here! I am also new, but supremely chatty, so ... yeah.

RathHood, on 09 March 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

Oh man, I'm a little jealous; that first time through is something else. ♥ There's plenty of people here, and many seem very friendly and very willing to clear up any confusion! Just ask, and we'll see what we can do, yeah? And welcome! \o/

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Posted 10 March 2011 - 11:50 PM

Well, I've been reading this series for about three years now. I have recently begun "The Crippled God", and seeing as nobody I know reads Erikson's work, I need somebody to share my enthusiasm with!

Even so.

#1427 Dutch

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Posted 11 March 2011 - 12:13 AM

Well, looks like our numbers are growing.

Welcome all.

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#1428 James73

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Posted 12 March 2011 - 04:24 AM

I'm a big fan of the Malazan series and have read through book 6. I decided to join your group because I may have some questions that haven't been covered and I respect your expertise. Malazan is probably my second favorite series behind ASOIAF. If the series wasn't so confusing it would probably be no. 1!

#1429 Sternentänzerin

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Posted 12 March 2011 - 05:27 PM

Uhm ... Hi? I'm German, yet I read all the books in english - the german translation is simply ... awful. Ever since I discovered GotM in my father's bookshelf I've been a major fan of Steven Erikson and the world of the Malazan Empire. I've just finished reading The Crippled God, and suddenly felt kind of empty. So I decided to come here, because I can't get enough of ... well, everything.

#1430 Dutch

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Posted 12 March 2011 - 05:43 PM

Sternentänzerin, on 12 March 2011 - 05:27 PM, said:

Same with the Dutch translations, sometimes when I see one of the new translations and I just browse the book a bit, I've got the idea that they have translated it from the German version rather then the normal English version concerning the title and parts of the books.

And welcome ofcourse

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#1431 Ace

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Posted 16 March 2011 - 03:52 PM

Hey! I'm Matt.

I suppose I should have joined up years ago but I always felt like I was behind on the books (even though I was never that far behind, especially since I was importing them from Midnight Tides on from the UK) and I didn't want to get spoiled.

But we're well past that point now that we've read Book 10. So I figure it's time to jump in and dig through and bounce around the theories with the rest of you. I'm looking forward to it.

#1432 Hood's Herald

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Posted 17 March 2011 - 02:44 AM

Hey all my name is Steve. I'm a huge Malazan fan, was randomly looking up stuff & found the forums & thought I'd join.

#1433 daoine

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Posted 18 March 2011 - 04:29 PM

Hey all, I've actually been a lurker here for quite awhile and finally decided to join. I'm on my first re-read of the series (tho I still haven't finished reading DoD). The re-read on tor.com is actually pretty helpful for all the little things I've forgotten over the years, but I've found that this site is the best! I can't wait to see what happens next!

#1434 Spoilsport Stonny

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 08:18 PM

Fantastic! I have comcast. So it took a little longer to register for this thing. Nevertheless...

I have read up until MT and was a lurker for a few months. Here's the long and short of it...

Bought GotM on a whim. I do that with all books. I kept it on the floor of my truck for over a year without touching it (right next to Gemmel's Legend, which still hasnt been touched.) I held off b/c I was in the middle of GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire. Well I got as far along in that tale as that bearded clown will allow us and was left incredible lacking. It is still my belief that that series will know no ending.

I then started reading Lord Foul's Bane and enjoyed it, but not enough to pick up the next book...eventually I'll get there.

I then decided to pick up that book with that soldier with 5:00 shadow and grey streaks through his 80's metal hair. That cover still looks stupid BTW. Which is why we should never judge books by them.

Wow. All I could say. That was around Christmas 2010 and I haven't looked back. This is definitely the single best story arc I've ever read. And I'm only halfway through it!

You guys on this board here have been so helpful. And I love the way the spoilers are hidden. Sometimes I get carried away and just keep reading. This prevents it.

Thank you all and here's to some happy posting, shared loves, and properly answered inquiries!

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#1435 Caufield Calamity

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Posted 23 March 2011 - 02:38 PM

Greetings, all! I'm excited to be here, truly!

While I am still in the process of reading, I enjoy now having the ability to lurk and gather.

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#1436 HiddenOne

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Posted 24 March 2011 - 02:34 AM

Cadfael, on 25 February 2011 - 10:25 AM, said:

I was a couple of chapters into Gardens of the Moon when I began to suspect that Erickson was a nom-de-plume. I realized that this was the writing of Steve Lundin who I had worked with for a couple of months in 1988. In that summer we were working an archaeological dig in downtown Winnipeg at the Forks (looking for Fort Gibralter II, a NW Company trade fort). Steve was my field supervisor and I was shaving my way down through a square meter of the trench. As I was in the middle of the site Steve usually sat nearby and flint knapped while supervising the work (we were all anthropology undergrads doing the grunt stuff). We spent many hours talking about RPGs and storytelling. When I look at some of the characters I recognize traits of some of my old friends from those days, and I suspect its the old RPG coming through.

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#1437 Herc

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Posted 24 March 2011 - 08:01 PM

Hi guys,

been lurking for awhile, decided to join up and get involved in the discussions, since you guys really know your stuff, and this series just seems tailor-made for geeking out about. Halfway through Midnight Tides and trying crazy hard to avoid spoilers around here. Also have exams coming up, so probably won't post a huge amount for the time being.
I'd say by this point I consider myself well and truly a fanboy, even came back to London early so I could get to the Forbidden Planet signing to get TCG and GoTM signed! Then went back a week later and they had signed RG, TtH and DoD, so I had to snatch them up

(for anyone around London, Forbidden Planet still have quite a lot of signed ones left, by the way)

Anyways, I'll likely have a lot more to say when I get further in, but for the time being, just wanted to say Hi!

P.S. I discovered the series through reading Slynt's A Game of Thrones re-read blog, I think I've seen the guy around here somewhere, so if you're reading this, CHEERS DUDE!

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Posted 26 March 2011 - 08:58 PM

I've just stumbled across this forum. I'm a brand new SE fan, having just finished GotM last night and started DG today.

I loved magical books as a child, and moved onto fantasy as a teenager and adult - SRD to Eddings and a lot of what's in between. I gave up on WoT and SoT around books 4 or 5, failed to finish the Dragonbone Chair twice (but have enjoyed all Tad Williams' other books), started aSoIaF, but never finished the first book. SRD is one of my favourite authors of all time - it's rare for me to collect a series in hardback, but I have all of his - but I'll happily read Brooks and Eddings when I'm looking for something light. I constantly moan about the "sameness" of fantasy writers, and I'm always looking for something different, which I finally think I've discovered.

Other than fantasy, I enjoy a lot of thrillers, which I think is part of the appeal of SE. I've already commented that GotM moves at the speed of a moderately paced thriller. I occasionally read mainstream fiction, and horror even more occasionally. My fiction reading is sometimes interrupted by biographies and rather heavy and depressing non-fiction books about the state of our species and how we've seriously outgrown the earth's natural resources.

Anyway, that's me.

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Posted 28 March 2011 - 07:02 PM

Greetings fellow Malazan lovers! is that wrong? i just finished Crippled God and decided to see what erikson/malazan stuff was online and found this website and thought awesome! i wants me some of that, so i joined up to share my love of eriksons work.

So hello.