Madness wrote:Lol - I definitely know he's not doing for money .

Wow, I couldn't even sentence right. Doing it* for the money.

*It being writing this greater narrative in multiple volumes.

He's often mentioned that he feels like he's simply taking dictation - Lesser and Great Bakkers as it were .

Lol - I definitely know he's not doing for money .

I'm sure I'm just repeating myself from this thread, Zarathustra, but given what readers should know about the structure of these books, I'm not sure why anyone expected TGO - as part three of four - to have... whatever it is they seem to think is missing. The book has to carry the weight of the ent...

Lol, Zarathustra.

I'm excited to hear what you think of the end.

Avatar, Orbit UK release is tomorrow! Have you got your book yet?!

Watch those spoilers, friends.

In other news, The Unholy Consult exists!

Lol - well, technically, you're waiting for the most recent book right now but...

There's actually really interesting insight into this by Erikson on the Grim Tidings podcast: he lucked into this random situation where a competitor to his publisher wanted to pay him in advance for all ten books in his series - his publisher was under the impression that he was writing like three...

:LOLS: Yeah, I'm generally pretty quick...it has it's drawbacks...TGO will be a perfect example...after waiting months for it, I'll finish it in a couple of days, so it's usually a little anti-climatic. Ah well...It has its benefits too. :D --A Well, I mean... everyone waited five years and still d...

Lol - That's rough. However, you seem to read voraciously so I don't have to feel too bad for you .

Nice, Zarathustra !

Someone mentioned somewhere on the interwebs that Bakker's strength is analogy and metaphor. On a sentence by sentence basis, there are so many really good one-liners across the books.

Avatar, that's quite the wait. I hope it doesn't take that long.

To me the differences are minor, and IIRC, manage to meld together. For example, the K'rul issue...once the "new" sex is defined, I seem to remember that it then becomes standard for both authors. K'rul is an elder god afterall, if he/she decides to change gender, it can... :D --A Can't a...

Bizarre. Sorry, to stray so off-topic, I was just reading something last night that implied there were some pretty interesting differences between the two authors. Found it on SA, in a response to another member who is trying to get into GOTM: It can help to think of the Malazan world in D&D ter...

Lol - well, thankfully you're a prolific reader, Avatar.

Did you read any of Esslemont's Malazan stuff?

Playing The Witcher 3. :D Just finished the main storyline last night, and starting on the expansions now. I feel like someone who now writes books famously worked on that... And re-reading Erikson's Forge of Darkness , (book 1 of his Kharkanas trilogy), so that I can read the recently released boo...

Haha, sadly not yet. Been playing too much computer games to get through the 2 books I have to read before I can start my re-read, and even then I'll have to wait for the paperback. (Unless I crack...but I'm trying not to.) :D --A Lol. What are you playing and what books are you reading currently? ...

SerScot, Hiro, Avatar, are any of you any closer to completing this leg of the slog?

I've started it and it is way darker than I care to read at this point. I've put it down and I'm reading The Brother's Karamazov again. Lol. I hope you find a more palatable head-space, SerScot. Well, that certainly bodes...hell, I thought the other 2 were dark, especially TJE. I shall gird myself ...

Lol - indeed. Well, I hope you join us in discussion when you're finished :). It niggles for real :P. Penguin Canada's trade paperbacks of TJE and WLW had the two sides of the Tusk and the Circumfix respectively. I was really looking forward to what other religious iconography TGO/TUC was going to ...

Indeed, Avatar :). Books. And hey, release was yesterday! Speaking of which, I had preordered several weeks ago at Amazon.de. Yesterday the dispatch information changed from its release date to, ships between 2 and 4 weeks. What?! I cancelled my order and placed an order at Bookdepository instead. ...