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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyOne" data-source="post: 80867" data-attributes="member: 858">Okay, now that I have your attention, read on.  Steven Erikson's series The Malazan Book of the Fallen is easily comparable to Martin's Song of Fire and Ice.  This is like the third time I've made a thread like this only to see it plummet into the bowels of obscurity.  Only a few folks like barsoomcore seem to have read them.  People need to find and read these books.   It's imperitive. They aren't being published in the States but are available in Canada and the Europe.  You can get them on Amazon I'm sure.These are without a doubt the best role-playing idea-useable books out there, and the stories are so epic and complex.  Thinking is required to read them and fully appreciate them.This is an SF Site review for the second one, called Deadhouse Gates (I'm going to post it over several posts since many people don't read long posts):If you're looking for a low-calorie dish of light fantasy, this ain't it. If you're looking for a nine-course riot of taste and texture, exotically spiced to make your eyes water, your heart pump faster and your brain do cartwheels inside your cranium, I know a great little Thai place downtown. Or, if you want something analogous to that in your reading, stop at the 'E's and pick up the latest from Steven Erikson. For those who read and enjoyed Gardens of the Moon, Erikson's first novel, you certainly won't want to miss Deadhouse Gates. For those who found Gardens to be too complex, too vast and following too many characters, you'll have the same experience with Deadhouse Gates. Yes, it's a sequel; yes, it picks up where the first one left off; and yes, having read the first one will make easier going of the second. A familiarity with events in the first one will flesh out some character motivation and some backstory for this volume, but it's not essential. And, in fact, you might feel for the first several chapters that having read the first book hasn't given you any real advantage at all. Deadhouse Gates is a complete story in its own right, although a complicated one that is anything but light reading. It is, however, well worth the effort.</blockquote>

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