Game of Thrones Season 2: First publicity photo.You keep some, you lose some, and you have to keep looking into it again, from time to time. Because real history is just like that: important but elusive. "The Malazan Book of the Fallen" managed to create that real life experience that Tolkien himself longed for (ever read "Leaf by Niggle"?). And, really, how much more can you demand of a good book? And still there is much left to rediscover when you reread it. And the really important things you don't forget. And so on, and so on.īut in the end everything is remarkably tight for a 10.000 pages epos. When I knew that I was reading something very important but did not "get" in what way it was important (which drove me crazy). When some character came along I'd long forgotten. Sure, there were times when I lost track of some plotlines. I am now within the last two chapters of "Crippled God", after about six years of reading.
Since this thread turned into a "how I got fed up with Erikson" contest, let me just add my two cents. You'll only re-read some fivethousand pages, but not more often and not everything else for a while. With the ICE books I'll only re-read Orb, Sceptre & Throne." "Now the series is technically "over" I'll probably only be re-reading Gardens of the Moon, Memories of Ice, Dust of Dreams and the Crippled God. I don't see why anyone bothers.īut while I don't see the problem from a practical point of view, I do see it from wanting to get some resolution. It's what turns people away from the Silmarillion as well. I never got this approach "I have to keep everything in mind, all at once", anyway. If I have forgotten the character, he'll come back automatically along the way in his actions, descriptions and other references. I was just reading so I could finish the story." "Somewhere along the way, I don't even realize when, whenever I'd come across a character who I didn't remember, I just didn't bother check it.
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