Will one of these 5 do? After zipping through The Prince of Nothing trilogy and AATE and about to finish Three Cups of Tea (a very good non-fiction that everyone should read BTW)...should I:
a) choose one of the 5
b) say screw it and start Bakker's The Judging Eye immediately
c) it's going to be a long cold winter perfect for rereading Neverness and the 3 books that follow
d) pick something else
I found the beginning of Tigana a little too 'flowery' and archaic, and have only read Gardens of the Moon as far as Malazan books are concerned...
Need a new read bad...
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Well...I often like Gaiman...but "Neverwhere" bored the heck out of me.
I only just recently got to the third of Malazaan. I'm starting to like them a lot...[took me more than a year of re-starts to get through the first, so that's a big change].
I only just recently got to the third of Malazaan. I'm starting to like them a lot...[took me more than a year of re-starts to get through the first, so that's a big change].
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Oh Good Lord! If you're read Gardens (And I don't see that it says that in your first post! Spud!), READ DEADHOUSE GATES!!!!!!! It's a FANTASTIC, STUNNING, SUBLIME book!!! Honestly, if you aren't incredibly moved by DG, it's because you died a couple years ago.
Not much of a Gaiman fan. Books, at least. I read his Sandman comics years ago, and they're as good as any other comics. Alas, I don't have the same opinion of his novels. Even American Gods doesn't do it for me in a major way. And I thought Neverwhere was downright stupid.
Not much of a Gaiman fan. Books, at least. I read his Sandman comics years ago, and they're as good as any other comics. Alas, I don't have the same opinion of his novels. Even American Gods doesn't do it for me in a major way. And I thought Neverwhere was downright stupid.
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Well, damn, I can only vote for one? Fine then, I pick Mieville. But Deadhouse Gates is a *very* close second, and whaddya *mean* you've only read GotM?? Jeebus, Fist, we've got our work cut out for us. Get Luci in here -- she'll straighten his butt out quick!
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Why only one? Can't you start them all? I'm chuckling to myself thinking of the crazy dreams you might have mixing up Neverwhere, Surface Detail, Malazan, and City&City!.
(my vote is NOT Zindell, and NOT Deadhouse Gates for itself, only to get you into the rest of the series)
(my vote is NOT Zindell, and NOT Deadhouse Gates for itself, only to get you into the rest of the series)
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Go on to The Judging Eye by Bakker. Now don't ask me again! 
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Dam, it feels like, what, 3 years since I read Gardens of the Moon, but I just bought Deadhouse Gates (always loved the cover) and am 10 pages in-not including the glossary, GotM glossary, maps and dramatis personae-a lot of memories are flooding back and it's a pretty cool-ass start. 
fall far and well Pilots!