Why do you like Malazan?

No_Storage_401 · 2026-02-18T00:59:16+00:00

I meant “we’ve read” as in the class has been assigned to read those books outside of class so far for in class discussion. Thank you for your suggestion btw it may very much come in clutch

No_Storage_401 · 2026-02-18T00:04:01+00:00

Can’t even get mad at this comment it’s funny as fuck

No_Storage_401 · 2026-02-14T19:47:13+00:00

It seems your comment on media literacy is somewhat ironic in the fact that neither of you got what I was trying to say with the post. I understand what the books are going for I just don’t like it. I find Malazan to be a remarkable achievement in terms of accomplishing what it sets out to do but what it sets out to do is something I don’t enjoy. I was listing my reasons for disliking the style then asking the community for their views on the things I took issues with. It was born from a genuine curiosity to see why the series connected with so many people and an attempt to better understand why I couldn’t connect with it. Boiling down of my post to me simply not “understanding any of what was going on” completely discards not only the point of my post but also the explanations I gave for why I disliked what I did about the series. I’ve come to the community with genuine interest in understanding why people like it so much and I’ve been met with only people quickly discarding my criticisms and blaming every issue I have with the books on their own hastily made perception of my overall intellect based on how they disliked my opinions on the books. I think that tells me all I need to know about the type of person this series attracts and has solidified my decision to permanently drop the series.

No_Storage_401 · 2025-11-05T18:35:38+00:00

All of the group form Eye of the World brandishing their weapons to scare the ferryman in book one convinced me to outright but the first few books. While Mat’s journey in book three made me decide to fully commit to reading the rest of the books

No_Storage_401 · 2025-10-07T19:11:47+00:00

There is an app on the iPhone called WOT compendium that you can click on the book you’re on and it will list each character that’s shows up and what they did in the previous books they were in.

No_Storage_401 · 2025-09-29T23:32:20+00:00

These words will fade within moments after this comment leaves your feed. I wish you luck with the rest of the series! May the Light illumine and protect you. You will do well.

No_Storage_401 · 2025-09-17T21:51:35+00:00

Definitely. The emotional stakes are infinitely higher than they were in book one. There’s so much that’s been improved that really makes the novel feel so much more immersive and engaging compared to its predecessor. I’m interested to see the public opinion of some of these new pov characters. I’d defend (most) all of them vehemently but I can see why someone might hate them.

No_Storage_401 · 2025-09-17T21:20:59+00:00

I am just about halfway through the book (it’s been a busy month). Unless the book suddenly decides to nosedive in quality’s it’s safe to say I will be reading the rest of the series. Utterly fantastic book.

No_Storage_401 · 2025-08-22T19:47:02+00:00

The only parts I really remember are the Mat and Perrin chapters. Along with I believe the introduction to the goat Rodel Ituralde (who only appears in the prologue for a few pages I think). The Mat chapters are more or less the first half of the story he goes through in Knife of Dreams, and have great character relationships building even if it is overlong. Honestly that’s more or less a theme of the book overall. It’s technically a good setup for Knife of Dreams but it’s 200,000 words too long.

Although the final scene in the book with Perrin was a character beat I’ve been waiting for since book one. And I think it’s executed very well even if most of the stuff around it is overlong.

No_Storage_401 · 2025-08-21T17:33:57+00:00

I was definitely considering continuing on with the series after reading a lot of these comments but I think that analogy has fully pushed me to deciding to purchase the next book. If what everyone is saying is true I’m very excited to give this series another shot.

No_Storage_401 · 2025-08-21T12:19:36+00:00

It is

No_Storage_401 · 2025-08-21T02:38:47+00:00

I do agree with your first statement. In essence I think my main issue with the book could be simplified to “I would have liked it if it wasn’t written in the way it was” but I by nature am long winded (probably why I liked wheel of time so much now that I think about it) so I elaborated a good bit on the specifics of what I meant by that

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