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2020 Malazan Re-read: Reaper's Gale Starts August 1st (For those who have self-control)

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Posted 11 August 2020 - 08:13 AM

I feel terrible about it but I'm all pooped out on reading currently. It's too hot, I'm tired when I come home from work, I'm just not really feeling that reading itch.

I haven't even finished Return of the Crimson Guard yet. I'm going to continue making the threads but I may bow out for now.
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Posted 12 August 2020 - 09:38 PM

Just got to the scene with the Hens in Buggs room and Tehol declares they're pure evil... please tell me thats taking the piss out of goodkind.

No worries Apt, we'll hold the fort for your triumphant return. Thank you for continuing to set up the threads.

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Para todos todo, para nosotros nada.

MottI'd always pegged you as more of an Ublala
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Posted 13 August 2020 - 06:27 AM

You are weak apt


Weak and pathetic
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Posted 13 August 2020 - 06:49 AM

You started it!
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Posted 14 August 2020 - 06:16 AM

And did I not pull through and commit to stoneweilder?

YOU started this thing apt.

For you not to see it through is worse than your love of Sarah Jessica Parker
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Posted 14 August 2020 - 07:35 AM

My love og Sarah J is a beyond reproach. It's a pure and beautiful devotion to her loveliness.
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Posted 16 August 2020 - 09:21 PM

So Chapter 12, the Shake are basically being part infected by K'chain, alien style which drives all the mutation they suffer?
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Posted 17 August 2020 - 02:57 AM

Yeah, that was always a freaky notion that the sea is full of dinosaur sperm.
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Posted 18 August 2020 - 08:23 PM

Those the whole K'Chain Che'Malle DNA part get mentioned in later books? I can't remember if Pully and Skwish were described with any malformations

If not, maybe Erikson just decided to go with a Tiste-origin for the Shake instead and ignored the dinosaur sperm.

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Posted 18 August 2020 - 08:30 PM

"I went out, among you, to make a difference - so that I could deliver wisdom, whatever wisdom I possessed- I thought - I thought you would be grateful. But you preferred shedding blood in my name. My words just got in your way, my cries for mercy for your fellow citizens - oh how they enraged you."

I have to admit, I completely forgot about that side of Errastas.

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Posted 19 August 2020 - 06:03 PM

The narrative leaps that happen in the second half of the book are quite jarring.

Coltaine he mentions the tiste origin in this book too. I expect once away from the Letherii shore the Dino mutations in newborn would dissipate.

The section with Rud Ellale and the imass is great, and is the rambo bonehunters.
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Posted 25 August 2020 - 05:37 PM

Finished.

Poor Beak and Trull.

Again I thought this one was quite straightforward, a bit like HoC. Lots of loose ends thrown out but nothing that felt off given this is a reread.

The jumping around of timelines and gaps about what happens in the second half is jarring and throws you out of the book a bit. I can only guess it was an editorial decision.
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Posted 29 August 2020 - 04:56 AM

Ah, damn I forgot to make the next re-read thread. I'll make one tomorrow.
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Posted 29 August 2020 - 07:23 AM

View PostAptorian, on 29 August 2020 - 04:56 AM, said:

Ah, damn I forgot to make the next re-read thread. I'll make one tomorrow.


I'm into Dust of Dreams now. Keeping up the momentum really helps tie things together - I've always previously read other stuff in between, and I dont want to do that this time. The last two books are the ones I've read the least, so I'm looking forward to the finale.
So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.
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Posted 02 September 2020 - 02:17 PM

I'm about 30% through and have some questions...

Chapter 9 (Sheltatha Lore and Sukul Ankhadu):

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"Tell me, did you choose in deliberation?"

"What?"

A gesture. "This place...for my recovery."

Sukul shrugged. "Shunned by the local people. Private — I thought —"

"Shunned, aye. With reason."

"And that would be?"

Sheltatha studied her for a long moment, then she simply turned away. "Matters not. I am ready to leave here now."


Where is this and why is it shunned? I couldn't figure it out. It's likely not the Azath courtyard.

Chapter 11 (Kuru Qan's ghost and The Errant):

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"...now [K'rul] walks the realms again, and drags with him the Tiles, the Holds, the ancient places he knew so well — there is the real war, Ceda!"

"True, and K'rul's idiotic nostalgia is proving a most virulent poison — although he is yet to realize that...


What does this mean? Is this at all related to the Crippled God's poison?
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Posted 02 September 2020 - 04:27 PM

It could be that K'rul in general is holding back from using his power to fix things. He's more or less got all the magic in the world running through him. He could probably do some very violent, very final things if he felt the need but like Burn, he doesn't want to destroy everything. Or something. Maybe the Ceda is referring to the manipulation K'rul has been doing, putting the right people and beings, in the right places - An indirect way of affecting thing that may be making things worse from some perspectives?
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Posted 02 September 2020 - 08:16 PM

I think it is the glade where Arbat buried the statues of the Seregahl with faeces. I guess that Sheltatha can somehow sense that her former fellow prisoners were worshipped here once. Would explain her reaction ^^


K'rul nostalgia could maybe mean, that he is trying to preserve the old systems he created, holds, houses, but it is time for a change. I mean, this is the book in which Icarium jumpstarts his new magic system in Letheras.

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Posted 02 September 2020 - 08:18 PM

I'm still missing the last 200 pages. Just can't find much time read right now. But I really loved the part where every member of Fiddler's squad got a few pages from their point of few. One of my favourite parts from the book Posted Image
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Posted 06 September 2020 - 11:03 PM

K'rul holding back AND being conservative regarding his warrens makes a lot of sense in context. Thanks!
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Posted 25 October 2020 - 10:00 AM

I'be been wearing nothing but a bedsheet all day (not even underpants) because Tehol is such a legend. It's surprisingly cosy.
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