Quotes from Darkness
More from “Forge of Darkness”. It is frustrating, because extrapolating quotes can diminish their power. Haut nodded. ‘Listen well. You are right to not conflate the symbol with the meaning; but you...
View ArticleForge of Darkness – Steven Erikson
And now I fear that I am not unusual, not cursed into some special maze of my own making. I fear that we are all the same, eager to make strangers of the worst that is in each of us, and by this stance...
View Article“Young” Vs “Adult” Fantasy
I’m at about 140 pages into Martin’s A Storm of Swords and once again wondering about the causes of its popularity. I know that this third book is considered by far the best in the series, and that I...
View ArticleThe real unreal
You’ve seen me before putting together the most disparate things, while keeping a straight face and a serious tone. So here’s a quote excised from a review of an anime about “magical girls”: I’ve...
View ArticleAs it goes
Okay, to hell with boundaries. I make a sport of this blog confusing everything with everything else. Reading Malazan book 6 I found a quote that is basically the Malazan formulation of the Kabbalah...
View ArticleMalazan covers – how they should be
I was looking at Subterranean Press limited editions of the Malazan books and being quite disappointed at the art there. But then I always am with that sort of stuff. For fun I decided to describe what...
View ArticleHidden under
I randomly bumped on this old Erikson interview. A couple of quotes: The dialogue that I have written that I remain pleased about is generally the tersest kind. The massive understatement. The line...
View ArticleErikson’s Malazan
(Non-spoiler) quotes from the recent QA about the series on Tor. Erikson’s own words: Writing it felt like more than one lifetime: it felt like hundreds of lifetimes, all crowded into a single place...
View ArticleMalazan done better: Bloodborne
Despite loving Malazan and thinking it has no challengers for what it does within its genre, I also do think it’s weak on certain aspects. I tried to explain as a mix of aesthetic joined with depth and...
View ArticleFantasy Realism
Well, that’s an oxymoron. Article on the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/sarah-larson/an-open-letter-to-the-white-walker-army Even Jon Snow, who, as several characters reminded us, has a...
View ArticleCould you just stop the EAMD bullshit?
I have Fall of Light and will start very soon, I’m now back reading the final part of The Bonehunters, as well the last 300 pages of A Dance with Dragons. It makes for a nice and interesting contrast....
View ArticleMalazan mythology & magic system
I’ve been sleeping 3/5 hours a day this week and yesterday I decided to reply on a forum to explain my interpretation of how the magic system in the Malazan world works, especially because it’s one of...
View ArticleGotM-ism
Here I give my personal interpretation of an argument about Malazan that is again given a different explanation, as well ramble on general considerations about what happens to very big book series that...
View ArticleThe Bonehunters – Steven Erikson
Meaningless mind games, right? Devoid of significance. Nothing but self-indulgence, and for that vast audience out there – the whispering ghosts and their intimations, their suppositions and veiled...
View ArticleMalazan Uncertainty
I plan to focus more on being concise than complete but I’m still spread across too many things to make any decent use of this place, going forward. I was about to start saying “a few weeks ago”, but...
View ArticleQuotes
The first is Erikson, the last Bakker. They aren’t together because I think they are really related, but I read them the same day. “Traditions die. And those who hold fast to them, cursing and filled...
View ArticleThe Malazan Reader
I spotted a tiny recommendation for the Malazan series, on Twitter, and I got carried away adding some of my unsolicited thoughts to it. I always said that Malazan is very hard to recommend to other...
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