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| Title | : | The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen (Malazan Book of the Fallen #1-10) |
| Author | : | Steven Erikson |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 8258 pages |
| Published | : | January 28th 2014 by Tor Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy |
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Nothing to see here, traveler. Move along. Just me tracking my UMCRO progress.What is UMCRO?
While, it's an Ultimate Malazan Chronological Reading Order, silly.
1.) Forge of Darkness 3.83 ✔
2.) Fall of Light 3.91 ✔
3.) Walk in Shadow*
4.) Dancer's Lament 3 ✔
5.) Deadhouse Landing 2.83 ✔
6.) Kellanved's Reach*
7.) Night of Knives 2.33 ✔
8.) Blood Follows 2 ✔
9.) The Lees of Laughter's End 3 ✔
10.) The Wurms of Blearmouth 3 ✔
11.) Gardens of the Moon 3.66 ✔
12.) Deadhouse Gates 4 ✔
13.) Memories of Ice 4.25 ✔
14.) The Healthy Dead 3 ✔
15.) Crack'd Pot Trail 4 ✔
16.) The Fiends of Nightmaria 3 ✔
17.) Midnight Tides 4.16 ✔
18.) House of Chains 3.41 ✔
19.) The Bonehunters 3.58 ✔
20.) Return of the Crimson Guard 2 ✔
21.) Reaper's Gale 3.83 ✔
22.) Stonewielder 3 ✔
23.) Toll the Hounds 3.33 ✔
24.) Goats of Glory 4 ✔
25.) Orb, Sceptre, Throne 3 ✔
26.) Blood and Bone 4 ✔
26.) Assail 3 ✔
26.) Dust of Dreams 3.58 ✔
29.) The Crippled God
30.) The God is Not Willing*
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All books written by both Steven Erikson and Ian C. Esslemont about Malazan world. And I'm reading them chronologically.
That's it. I told you there's nothing to see here.
Except the list of 30 books.
But you probably aren't interested in it.
Late in 2017 authors themselves suggested chronological reading order. Which, of course, caused a lot of stir among fandom.
Because, obviously fandom being fandom, always knows better than creators themselves, right? :D
But seriously. There were some fair criticisms out there. About spoilers, about key plots being ruined, even about boosting sails...
Overall, fans simply, out of love for these series, expressed concern that new readers, who decided to follow that reading order, won't have that same phenomenal experience as they did.
So, I decided to test this, to tweak my 'Suggested by Fans' reading order and adapt it to that of which authors prefer.
My opinion, since I'm on half of it?
New readers: Move away from this reading order and start with nothing else but Gardens of the Moon, first book in Malazan Book of the Fallen series and then continue onward by the order books were published.
Fans: If you like puzzles, you'll like this suggested chronological reading order. Various parts of history are scattered all around in unfinished trilogies and new series and whatnot.
And you get to collect them, all the way to crescendo of Crippled God, final book of the series, and you get to see complete picture. That's not necessarily the same picture you have seen for the first time.
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| ISBN: | 0765376857 (ISBN13: 9780765376855) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/01/the-complete-malazan-series |
| Series: | Malazan Book of the Fallen #1-10 |
Rating Regarding Books The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen (Malazan Book of the Fallen #1-10)
Ratings: 4.72 From 1537 Users | 91 ReviewsAssessment Regarding Books The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen (Malazan Book of the Fallen #1-10)
Definetely 5 stars, maybe more. An unconventional, smart, complex, titanic in scale fantasy Epic, spanning two empires, four continents and countless characters, from street urchins and soldiers to Gods and Primordial powers.It is mostly arcane, with the writer offering very little clarifications, instead it tells you all you need to know through half-told words, stories and excerpts from texts, often answering questions books before they come up in the story.This can sometimes be frustratingAlready own all the individual "dead tree editions", but I wouldn't mind getting it on my Kindle. Still... 80 plus dollars, but no X-ray? "Tor Books, Macmillan" don't you want our free money?
Erikson actually created a very vivid and interesting world with different races/species, gods,magic, huge epic battles, and a lot of history. However Erikson is a very inconsistent storyteller. On one hand there was never any central narrative drive to the series. Although the ending shows something that might have been an ultimate goal, we never even receive any vague hints regarding it as the series progresses. Nor was this really a character driven narrative because of the too many POV's,
Arguably on of the best fantasy series ever written and 10 book series was written in 10 years (take that GRRMartin!)Can't be described as anything other than gritty from start to finish, this is one unpredictable series.I should read it again as I read it in order from when there were only two books out. One of the few series I felt compelled to donate to prison library I used to work at as I wanted others to enjoy it and not have to wait until I had the budget money to buy them.
This is a really dark and heavy story, too much so for my current tastes. Didn't finish it (actually didnt even properly start, just went through the 1st book's sampler available for the Kindle from Amazon), but it was enough to convince me this is not a story I want to read in full, at least not now. Perhaps at another time when I'm carefree and buoyantly happy and need something heavy to drag me down a little...
I've been reading this series over a two year period and it's been a hell of an adventure. Started reading it in .epub format, but was delighted to find out my library newly bought the whole series. Now, onto the meat of the matter: The world-building, story-lines and characters are intricate, detailed and inter-connected.. And there's so damn many of them. The writing can get a bit long-winded at times where you're just itching to find out what happens, but the author doesn't let you off the
I originally read the first eight books in this series as they came out. Psyched to be reading this series again, in one complete collection no less! As there are a total of ten books, however, I will update this review as I go...[Gardens of the Moon]As the first entry into this epic series, Gardens of the Moon introduces us to many of the major players and lays the groundwork for what's to come later on. We learn exactly who and what the Malazan Empire is; we're even given a small glance at the
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