Been finished for a half hour and still simmering about the last 10% of that book. Phenomenal. So much to take in. Every time I try to wrap my head around a plot I’m remembering new cool shit like the T’lan Imass who Harllo found and his interaction with Raest. Crokus/Chalice. The Noms. Picker/Blend. Antsy and the dead cat. Iskaral Pust making up new laws for House Shadow. So many amazing plot lines and how well he converged everything. Fuck man, GRRM needs Erikson to give him a lesson in making 40 plot lines converge.
Spoiler So Dragnipur was created to protect the Gate of Darkness from the ever expanding/destroying warren of Chaos. The gate was inside the wagon and the victims of Dragnipur were forced to pull it away from chaos forever. In previous books (or earlier in this book I cannot recall) Draconus kept talking about how Rake was not killing enough people or enough powerful people and Chaos was going to overtake them, so Rake, Hood and others conspired to sacrifice themselves to combat this. With their added power they were able push Chaos back and allow Mother Dark to relocate the Gate to Black Coral. I honestly don't remember exactly what was going on with Clip and how it played into all of this, but fuck Clip. Dassem wants to kill Hood. He has a vendetta against him from way back when he was Hood's First Sword. Rake stood in his way (mainly by having already killed Hood iirc) Traveller keeps on travelling. You'll see him again in some of the Esselmont books, not sure about the remaining Erikson books. K'rul meets with Kruppe and Fisher, but Draconus will make his presence known soon enough Also for reasons such as this I for the millionth time cannot possibly recommend the Tor reread enough to help unravel these dense portions of the book. https://www.tor.com/2013/07/31/mala...-toll-the-hounds-chapter-twenty-one-part-two/
Yes that is a p awesome painting. I imagined that scene as identical to the end of Wreck It Ralph Breaks the Internet I just took my kids to, which was a roughly similar scene.
Yeah now after you typing that first paragraph I absolutely remember all of it now, I think it’s just so much fucking content that it’s hard to get my brain around it all, especially when it usually takes me so long to read the books. I finished Book 1 in early 2017. Also even though it makes it “easier” or “more enjoyable”, I want to read the books first with a little outside help as possible, but I am 100% going to reread the series, probably using those chapter by chapter guides
To be fair Cotillion rarely has a fucking clue as to what Shadowthrone is talking about. You’re going to fucking love the Path to Ascendancy books
Started Dust of Dreams, it's amazing how much you miss characters that disappear for books, like Tehol, Bugg, and Fiddler/Bottle/Malazans in Lether.
every time I open this thread it makes me want to start a re-read again. I've been through twice and there's still so much I'm fuzzy on. But it's such a daunting task.
Start of Dust of Dreams was super confusing, as always seems to happen to me with all these books, but they are about to the read Deck reading and good lord is he a master at building suspense from absolutely nothing.
Dust of Dreams is really good so far, 21% through. I think I can do without any SwordArmed Raptor stuff though, I don't find that interesting at all. Tehol has easily surpassed Kruppe as my favorite character. Naturally he will probably die at the end of this book.
Hood’s Army is so fuckin badass yet it’s got me in my feelings Like I’m gonna cry and also punch something
240 pages in Shitting my pants knowing the Bonehunters are likely gonna run into some Spoiler K’chain Che Malle
560 pages in and I'm nearly salivating at what the convergence of plot lines is going to look like in 700 more pages. Also I want all of the Taxilian/Rautos group to die horrible deaths.
My issue is I always am getting books from the library while reading this series so I take breaks to finish my library books. I just need to buckle in and finish Dust and book 10 before I get any more books, like I just read a book on Eastern Buddhist philosophy and starting an autobiography while also reading Dust of Dreams.
It gets better, but I agree. I’m at page 700 and Spoiler: mild spoiler this huge ass storm thing is really cool. His imagery about it ripping across the wastelands is really great. Fist sized pieces of hail, huge pillars of destruction. Neat! I feel like a lot of people are going to die soon. Also I think the Bolkandos are more boring than they should be.
From what I understand it’s not a complete book by itself, so a lot of plot lines don’t get resolved until book 10?
Hot Take But if the shore actually did go away and swallowed up all the Shake with it I wouldn’t be upset at all
Can someone confirm for me that Spoiler Rautos, Taxillian, Breath, etc are all really just Icarium going crazy? It has to be
Just finished chapter 17. This Barghast story line is becoming one of the dumbest fucking plot lines in the entire series. Spoiler This whole Balak/Hetan/Cafal/Estalle whatever her name quadruple death on the night before the battle was fucking pointless. I just spent like 100 pages of this book having to pretend to care about this awful fucking plot thread just for it to end this way? How fucking stupid and completely unsatisfying in every way possible. Terrible. Edit Spoiler: chapter 18’s battle well everyone but the clan that retreated is fucking dead anyways due to what I’m assuming is the Jaghut warren/hold of ice? Now doubly pointless. Whatever at least they are all dead and we can move on
Icarium plot line question for The Blackfish or others: Spoiler: page 915 so just got to the part where Icarium is reborn in the Matron’s chamber and I’m still confused, was Veed/Rautos/Taxilian/Sheb/Last and crew actually imaginary or were they actually alive and Veed sacrificed them all to bring Icarium back? Sometimes his writing really isn’t clear on this