About to begin Gardens of the Moon

Post by **hue of fuzzpaws** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:22 am

Have just received my copy of GOTM in the post today. Did not realize that SRD endorses this volume. Just have to work my way through the Dramatis Personae first

Post by **Onos T'oolan** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:34 am

YES!!!!

Post by **wayfriend** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:49 pm

GotM is dense, but worth penetrating. Have fun!

Post by **aliantha** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:51 pm

Hee hee hee, another recruit. Enjoy the ride, Hue!

Post by **DukkhaWaynhim** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:52 pm

Good luck - I have not managed to pierce it yet. And I've tried a few times... epic fail, I guess...

dw

Post by **Onos T'oolan** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:19 pm

Yo hue, I started GotM again today. Figured a new reader was a good time to reread the whole series. So if you have questions as you're going, it'll be real fresh in my mind.

No, nobody get the wrong idea. I'm not suggesting, or willing to participate in, a dissection.

But I'll try to keep up with hue.

Post by **hue of fuzzpaws** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:51 am

Thanks Onos. I have a rather fast rate of reading, which often leads to me glossing over the fine details within books. With GOTM I am holding myself right back. At the moment I have read the prologue twice and am now starting on Chapter 1.

I had to pop into town today for my signing on time and managed to pick up a copy of Night Of Knives

Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:10 pm

Read GotM 4 or 5 months ago and have just completed book 7, Reaper's Gale. One more and I'll be caught up and current.

I'm a pretty fast reader too, but these books need to be savored and attention paid to the fine details.

Hold off on reading Night of Knives until you're at least four or five books into the main series.

Have fun. I sure did!

PS. Can't wait to see your digital renderings of some of these characters.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:26 pm

hue of bone wrote:Thanks Onos. I have a rather fast rate of reading, which often leads to me glossing over the fine details within books.

Well, you'll probably be overtaking 'ol Onos rapidly in that case.

But I'm gonna be rereading soon too, starting with Night of Knives, just as soon as I finish up Bakker's Prince of Nothing series, (endorsed by Erikson

).

Personally, I enjoyed GotM a lot more after I'd read some of the other books.

--A

Post by **Cleburne** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:51 pm

wayfriend wrote:GotM is dense, but worth penetrating. Have fun!

Agreed its deep but once your willing to fill ur head with plenty of characters you will enjoy it

Its good

Post by **Onos T'oolan** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:26 pm

Demondime-a-dozen-spawn wrote:PS. Can't wait to see your digital renderings of some of these characters.

YEAH!!! Hadn't thought of that!

Avatar wrote:
hue of bone wrote:Thanks Onos. I have a rather fast rate of reading, which often leads to me glossing over the fine details within books.
Well, you'll probably be overtaking 'ol Onos rapidly in that case.

Indeed.

Avatar wrote:Personally, I enjoyed GotM a lot more after I'd read some of the other books.

Yeah, me too. Although I really liked it the first time, too.

Post by **Avatar** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:21 am

I was intrigued the first time, but really didn't appreciate the characters or the story until my second read. No doubt my third will be even better.

--A

Post by **hue of fuzzpaws** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:23 pm

Into Chapter 1 now. Just arrived at section where the Adjunct to the Empress is investigating the massacre of a large number of soldiers.

The two men swathed in black, that appeared earlier on in this chapter, are Claws?

Post by **Onos T'oolan** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:12 pm

No. They're... Hey! I thought you said you were gonna read the Dramatis Personae?! What?? You didn't memorize it??? Look, are you gonna take Malazan seriously, or aren't you?!?!!!

4th and 5th from the last entries of the Dramatis Personae.

Post by **Topper** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:37 pm

Nope. There was no mention of memorizing the DP

. So back to GOTM

Post by **Onos T'oolan** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:02 pm

Nicely done, Topper.

Post by **Avatar** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:21 pm

Oh no, another one.

Yeah, don't worry about it. There are way too many characters too keep straight. Don't worry, the important ones keep showing up.

--A

Post by **Topper** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:12 pm

I am now in the midst of Chapter 2, just before the assault on Moon's Spawn.

Post by **Topper** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:10 pm

I have now reached pg.103 of GOTM. Romped through the actual battle of Moon Spawn and its aftermath. Have now reached point where Whiskyjack (the Commander in the Prologue?) is about to commit himself to a course of action.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:40 pm

Have you figured out what's going on yet?

I was almost totally lost for about the first 100 pages or so.

Kevin's Watch

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About to begin Gardens of the Moon