[King Bear]

Which is your favourite?

This post has been edited by Bombur: 27 February 2011 - 07:51 AM

[Tsundoku]

Deadhouse Gates, with Memories of Ice a worthy second.

I predict great love for Midnight Tides, Toll the Hounds, Dust of Dreams and the Crippled God though. Maybe those last 2 should be considered 1?

@Bombur
Aren't you allowed to vote in your own poll?

This post has been edited by Sombra: 27 February 2011 - 08:11 AM

[King Bear]

Sombra, on 27 February 2011 - 08:10 AM, said:

Deadhouse Gates, with Memories of Ice a worthy second.

I predict great love for Midnight Tides, Toll the Hounds, Dust of Dreams and the Crippled God though. Maybe those last 2 should be considered 1?

@Bombur
Aren't you allowed to vote in your own poll?

I actually haven't read tCG yet... so I'll have to hold off on voting until then.

[Tsundoku]

Bombur, on 27 February 2011 - 08:13 AM, said:

Sombra, on 27 February 2011 - 08:10 AM, said:

Deadhouse Gates, with Memories of Ice a worthy second.

I predict great love for Midnight Tides, Toll the Hounds, Dust of Dreams and the Crippled God though. Maybe those last 2 should be considered 1?

@Bombur
Aren't you allowed to vote in your own poll?

I actually haven't read tCG yet... so I'll have to hold off on voting until then.

Neither have I, but unless it's off-the-chart freakin' AWESOME - even by MBotF standards - my vote won't change. If DoD is anything to go by, DG is very, very safe as my #1.

[King Bear]

Sombra, on 27 February 2011 - 08:16 AM, said:

Bombur, on 27 February 2011 - 08:13 AM, said:

Sombra, on 27 February 2011 - 08:10 AM, said:

Deadhouse Gates, with Memories of Ice a worthy second.

I predict great love for Midnight Tides, Toll the Hounds, Dust of Dreams and the Crippled God though. Maybe those last 2 should be considered 1?

@Bombur
Aren't you allowed to vote in your own poll?

I actually haven't read tCG yet... so I'll have to hold off on voting until then.

Neither have I, but unless it's off-the-chart freakin' AWESOME - even by MBotF standards - my vote won't change. If DoD is anything to go by, DG is very, very safe as my #1.

Currently mine is MOI or MT, probably MOI. I have trouble deciding between them because they're both so good but also quite different. It's going to be tough for tCG to dethrone MOI, but anything's possible, and I'd be more than happy if it did.

[Bauchelain the Evil]

I am sure TCG will be a great book but I doubt it will be on par with MoI.

However I'll wait until TCG before voting

[ShadowRaven]

I voted for MoI, but tCG comes in as a close second. TCG could have won, but it relies so much on the rest of the series for the awesomeness and revealing previous foreshadowing that MoI is still better because it is more "independent" in a sense.

[sappers rule]

me it has to be dofd because i loved he end and also cant remenber which book had the cool wickan/malanzan/cilivan army retreat which is a very close second.

[King Bear]

sappers rule, on 27 February 2011 - 11:54 PM, said:

me it has to be dofd because i loved he end and also cant remenber which book had the cool wickan/malanzan/cilivan army retreat which is a very close second.

Deadhouse Gates, that was.

[GaesReturns]

Without a doubt, Gardens of the Moon.....it's not even a question I have to think about.
I hold great affection for any book that introduces me to a new way of thinking, of being inspired, and GOTM IS that book.

FTR, I found Deadhouse Gates to be wildly depressing. It sapped all the life out of me, and whenever I contemplate the thought of beginning to read all the Malazan books over again, I hesitate, as doing so means I have to revisit that gloomy feeling.

[End of Disc One]

I won't vote until I've finished TCG....but TCG is off to a very slow start. I'm 15% of the way through and aside from the first chapter and one awesome revelation moment, there hasn't been much to write home about. Probably the slowest start aside fro TtH. I have hopes though.

[Salk Elan]

My vote goes to tCG. This book is imo the most poetic and emotionally moving volume of them all and therefore exceeds my long-lasting favourite MoI by a hair's breadth.

[Shadow of Shadowthrone]

I voted Toll the Hounds, but I admit I haven't read the tenth book yet.

[Skinner]

C'mon, surely now that TCG is out most people can start to vote?

Unfortunately I'm just on the fence having completed TCG

[Fist Gamet]

Still MoI with DG a close second. For me it is one of those rare books I can read again and again and enjoy it just as much each time.

[Bauchelain the Evil]

Finished TCG. MoI is still first with TBH a close second.

This post has been edited by Bauchelain the Evil: 12 March 2011 - 01:33 PM

[miriya]

GaesReturns, on 28 February 2011 - 12:52 AM, said:

Without a doubt, Gardens of the Moon.....it's not even a question I have to think about.
I hold great affection for any book that introduces me to a new way of thinking, of being inspired, and GOTM IS that book.

FTR, I found Deadhouse Gates to be wildly depressing. It sapped all the life out of me, and whenever I contemplate the thought of beginning to read all the Malazan books over again, I hesitate, as doing so means I have to revisit that gloomy feeling.

This is exactly the reason I don't re-read GRRM more. /random, what?

Though with DG, it's less depressing and more wildly outrage-inducing, and I find myself both sad and furious by turns, culminating in the most epic sensation of ONTD ever.

I voted TTH, because I absolutely love the way it's written. People can grumble about the sudden shift in style and heavy-handedness with italics (though I think TCG is the new champion 'offender' there), but it hits all my Favorite Sort of Story kinks. All of them -- well, it would have been all of them, if Fid had done a reading in there somewhere. Tragedy, some sort of epic sacrifice, betrayal, surprise, awesome mage battles, favorite characters clawing their way back into the light, that hideous sort of futility that reaches out, wraps its fingers around your heart and shakes, more surprise ... and, uh, other stuff. Hood rolling through Darujhistan, Annie Mandy Christ, that guy dancing with the cockroach-squishing demon ... it touched me gently in all the right ways. MOI really did, too, and it was my favorite before TTH, but the writing style is really what elevated the latter in my mind.

[JPK]

It appears that I am in the minority here. I have a very very deep rooted love of The Bonehunters. I was on the edge of my seat during the entire Y'Ghatan section.

[snake0026]

Indeed, I loved The Bonehunters as well, with MoI and DG coming up close in second and third (though not necessarily in that order). By contrast, MT, which is currently tied with DG in second place, was my least favourite...

[King Bear]

Bonehunters rocks, although it's my fourth favourite. Then again, when it comes to malazan my least favourite book rocks.