This bodes well
Jul. 5th, 2005 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
So I'm reading Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson. This is the third book in the Malazan Empire series. Like the other two before it, this book is a brick, clocking in at around 1200 pages. I've been diligently reading about 100 pages a day so I'm already a third of the way through.
I think this has probably been the best one so far. Mainly because of exchanges like this between Kallor, a demi-god hero cursed to wander the Earth by the gods and Quick Ben, a lowly magician who knows that subtle is power....
"[Kallor's] flat grey eyes fixed on Quick Ben. 'You, wizard, are a hoarder of souls...I am a man who releases souls -- shall I break the chains within you? An easy thing, to leave you helpless.
'Even easier,' Quick Ben replied, 'to make a hole in the ground.'
Kallor dropped from sight, the earth gone from beneath him. Armour clattered followed by a bellow of rage."
It's been quite good
Tom
So I'm reading Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson. This is the third book in the Malazan Empire series. Like the other two before it, this book is a brick, clocking in at around 1200 pages. I've been diligently reading about 100 pages a day so I'm already a third of the way through.
I think this has probably been the best one so far. Mainly because of exchanges like this between Kallor, a demi-god hero cursed to wander the Earth by the gods and Quick Ben, a lowly magician who knows that subtle is power....
"[Kallor's] flat grey eyes fixed on Quick Ben. 'You, wizard, are a hoarder of souls...I am a man who releases souls -- shall I break the chains within you? An easy thing, to leave you helpless.
'Even easier,' Quick Ben replied, 'to make a hole in the ground.'
Kallor dropped from sight, the earth gone from beneath him. Armour clattered followed by a bellow of rage."
It's been quite good
Tom
