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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Volaran" data-source="post: 80977" data-attributes="member: 592">I hate to say it, but I really dislike Erikson's series.  My friend and DM is obsessed with his work, and recommended them to me, even lending me his copy of Deadhouse Gates before it was avaliable in North America.  His wife's (also a player in our group) father is in Erikson's GURPs campaign that the books are based on, and that's how he got into it.   I was amused enough at some of the campaign stories, such as several chapters having to be rewritten in the latest book, due to players accidentally getting a major baddie killed long before he was supposed to, and the campaign that inspired Anomander Rake's character, to borrow his copies of the first two books and have a read.I slogged through them, but I did not enjoy it.  Characters bled together far too easily for me, for one thing.  I can only read about so many hardcore military characters who hate war in one book before they begin to meld.I had other problems, which if I recall involved the Malazan empire just not making any bloody sense to me...sadly a year after the reading, I can't remember precisely what...blocked out bad memories I suppose.  I suppose my biggest gripe was simply that I was unable to care about any of the characters.Even my DM, fanatic that he is, has the occasional problem.  The battles on Genabackis for example.  It was an issue before, but now in the third book, he tells me that its very difficult to imagine the scale of the battles.  Dujek's(sp?) army is beset on all sides, yet he tells me that its very difficult to picture the battles, as it seems unclear as to whether the whole army is involved and desperate, or if these are skirmishes.That said, he found it much easier in the second book, due to more specific numbers.Now, these were my problems reading Erikson's books.  I don't actually think they're bad per se, but definitly not something that I enjoyed.  I'm glad you seem to be very satisfied with them though.  My DM will be glad to know that he's not the only one.  You may be happy to know as well, that the fourth book is finished past the halfway mark.  Since he returned to Winnipeg and started up his campaign again (the first two books, which he wrote in London, covered what had happened when he lived here before) the events seem to be going like mad.</blockquote>

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