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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 4532274" data-attributes="member: 4682">I've been slogging through The Malazan Book of the Fallen series. I skipped Midnight Tides over because I just couldn't get in to it . . . all new characters, no story continuity, whole new continent . . . and jumped to the next (The Bonehunters) which returned the story to familiar lands and characters. After finishing The Bonehunters last month, I'm giving Midnight Tides a second try because the book following The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, returns to the plot begun in Midnight Tides.I like sweeping epics, really do, but the Malazan Book of the Fallen feels like it is getting out of control.I have checked out the late Jane Jacobs' final book Dark Age Ahead, published in 2004. She is a rare individual who overturned orthodoxy in the field of city planning for all time with her now classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, then she did it a second time with an equal impact on the field of economics with her book The Economy of Cities. I read that her Dark Age Ahead predicted much of the current economic troubles well before they happened. Dark Age Ahead is next after my Malazan books.</blockquote>