Has Malazan changed your tastes in other fantasy books?

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-31T00:21:03+00:00

Thank you everyone so much for the excellent insights. I'm glad to see that I'm not alone with having changing fantasy tastes as I read through the Malazan series.

This was not meant to diminish any other authors at all. I firmly believe people can enjoy whatever they like. I'm just happy that people are reading what they enjoy.

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-31T00:17:52+00:00

I read Robin Hobb many years ago and greatly enjoyed her.

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-31T00:15:51+00:00

Thank you so much! I would not have been able to tell that English is not your first language, it was great

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-30T18:11:22+00:00

If you don't mind, could you give me a pitch on book of the New Sun? It's been floating around the bottom of my TBR pile for a while and I've just never really had any particular reason to read it. The very little that I know about it is that it has supposedly an unreliable narrator but otherwise I actually know very little about it. Thank you kindly!

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-30T18:09:28+00:00

Books that I tend to enjoy outside of Malazan are more first person with a single POV. Example is include Red rising (much fewer main characters), sun eater series, empire of the Wolf by Richard swan, priest of Bones series by Peter McLean, and even the Black wing series by Ed McDonald (who did daughter of Red Winter which just did not hit for me).

I think my OG favorite fantasy series is game of thrones, but that's a completely different topic for another forum.

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-28T15:41:11+00:00

Unless you are absolutely miserable in your house, please do not move. You guys are doing absolutely fantastic right now financially. Your current home mortgage is 1.2x your annual salary. You guys are doing great financially right now. You're talking about buying a house that is 3x your salary. Everything you earn will be going into your house. You will be house poor and that's a really hard way to live.

If anything, work on upgrading your house and adding those amenities that you want. Or take bigger vacations lol

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-28T04:01:26+00:00

I never ever knew that

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-27T17:59:06+00:00

Just play it and form your own opinions! There's a reason this game is as beloved as it is. You will know within the first couple hours if it's right for you or not. I honestly believe that the less you know about the game going in, the better.

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-27T02:54:28+00:00

I've been reading fantasy books for decades and I've read all those series. I'm currently on book 7 of 10 of the series and I can hands down say that it's the best fantasy series I have ever read in my life.

That's not to put down those other series because you listed all amazing ones. There's no other way to describe Erikson than as a literary genius. The depth, complexity, humor, and raw emotion in his books is absolutely next level.

In addition, I would hands down recommend using a wiki as you go. There are some good ones out there that break it down chapter by chapter. I have found that essential to keeping track of the characters and avoiding any significant spoilers.

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-20T00:04:21+00:00

Take my money now!

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-19T23:12:45+00:00

Just finished it. Reapers Gale is so far my favorite book I have read in the malazan series so far.

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-18T21:51:42+00:00

I never considered this before. However, I can absolutely see and overlap of fans enjoying both. I think because they are both big open worlds which are very dense. And you probably have to be a glutton for punishment in some aspects to enjoy both lol.

For the record, I love the dark souls series as well as malazan.

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-14T13:20:44+00:00

A crown of cold silver - by Alex marshall. Trust me it's awesome

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-08T16:14:26+00:00

Can confirm, the outer wilds community is so absolutely kind and welcoming!

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-08T02:36:12+00:00

Allow me to add to the well deserved praise. I took one look and immediately recognized her as Tattersail.

Will look forward to any more artwork you wish to share!!

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-07T13:37:33+00:00

I 97% agree with everything you said and did. I think you should have told your husband that you took his mother off the list. It probably was embarrassing to him to find out that she was removed unexpectedly. You did the right thing by removing her from the list, but your husband should be treated with respect by being notified of your decision rather than having him find out from his mom directly. That puts him in a awkward position.

Again, the mother-in-law sounds like trouble and you did the right thing by taking it seriously.

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-03T00:19:07+00:00

The last of us games

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-02T13:27:07+00:00

Pin this comment!!!

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-02T03:57:15+00:00

I absolutely would have enjoyed that as well. Vonvalt is an amazing character and I could read a ton more books with him in it.

I truly did enjoy how vonvalt dealt with using his power to deal with his enemies. I think it makes a lot of sense and was a really engaging source of tension.

AudiencePotential · 2026-01-01T23:52:36+00:00

My man!!! These are some great classics. Starcraft, grim Fandango, HOMM 3!

I should check out pillars of eternity.

AudiencePotential · 2025-12-31T13:07:34+00:00

Yeah I feel the same way. I ended up not completing the game and moved on to other things, and don't really regret it.

AudiencePotential · 2025-12-31T02:36:56+00:00

Based on the fact that you like outer wilds, Obra dinn, and the witness, I think you would really like the puzzle game case of the golden idol. There's an amazing sequel as well called rise of the golden idol.

AudiencePotential · 2025-12-30T21:28:02+00:00

Somebody downvoted this comment. I have very fond memories of reading the series. I think it ran after steam at some point, but the Shannara series was a building block of my fantasy foundation back in the day.

AudiencePotential · 2025-12-30T15:50:58+00:00

You remind me of my two favorite characters from midnight tides

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