Posted 30 August 2015 - 10:22 AM
Hello, everyone.
Newbie to the forum here. Please excuse my English, I`m not a native speaker, but I`ll try my best, I promise!
I`ve been through almost every fantasy out there. Maybe a year back in my desperation I picked up B. Sanderson`s Mistborn, which almost made me quit the genre. Erikson was my last hope, though I have to say I approached him with fair amount of disbelief. The first few pages of Gardens of the Moon felt terrible - new, complicated and way different writing style, dozen of characters, zero exposition, zero explanation. Then Tattersail came in, and Pale`s siege, and the massive, massive battle between Tayschrenn and Anomander and, of course, Hairlock! Damn... Hairlock had such an epic storyline!
So, here I am, an year later, at the end of Midnight Tides and man... did this series change everything for me! It amazes me how different really Erikson is than everything I have ever read. So much more intelligent... At this point I doubt I can return to anything else.
To those who find the books confusing I can say that one should read them like puzzles. Every bit of given information should first be evaluated and understood, and then put in the whole picture. There are no mistakes in the text, no random info, no random words, silly dialogue or anything like those. Also one should always be aware of the point of view of the character. Often a character is right about something and wrong about several other. As a reader, it is your duty to evaluate the information, nothing will be directly explained to you.
To the others, I`m looking forward to our future discussions!
Regards.(and I hope my English wasn`t that bad)