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200 pages into Dust of Dreams

By blog on Apr. 25, 2010.

And I’m just not really digging the Malazan experience right now.

On the one hand, I really do enjoy these books. I mean sure, there’s a bit of one-up-manship going on in a lot of it, with more and more powerful characters coming into the series, but I like the epic scope of the books, and love how things that happened in certain books tie in with happenings in books much later in the series. There’s some serious skill going on here.

However, I’ve read the first eight books all in the last year. That’s a heck of a lot of Malazan to read back to back. I’ve not read anything else in that entire time, just Malazan book after Malazan book. They’re all combining in my head, too. This book seems to follow on after Reaper’s Gale, so of course I can’t really remember what happened in that one very clearly. I mean I remember the big stuff, but a lot of the smaller details have left my mind.

Same thing has happened with Toll the Hounds. I remember the climax of the book, and all the stuff that went down then, but a great portion of the book is lost to my mind. I tried to find a good plot summary of what had happened in those books, but I haven’t found anything comprehensive yet, which is frustrating. Part of me is considering putting the book down for a while and reading something else for a while, and leaving Dust of Dreams to read just before I read The Crippled God as they’re actually parts one and two of the finale for the series.

I’ve heard good things about the Mistborn series, and that’s already finished which is a nice change. Still no news about the next Song of Ice and Fire book from George R R Martin, which isn’t surprising. It irritates me greatly that he’s got millions of fans waiting for the next book and he decides he’s going to take time out to write a 1733 word blog post about the NFL draft.

Anyway, so yeah, not sure what I’ll do there. Knowing me I’ll probably end up reading them both at the same time now.