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read in October 2016
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I can see now why so many people call 'The Stand' Stephen King's best novel. I, myself am more inclined to give that honor to the 'Dark Tower' series as a whole, but this one is certainly among my most favorite books of all time. Apparently, the uncu
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"I do and don't want to finish this book. Mostly the 'don't' part, because I don't want it and my Stephen King spree to be over." — Feb 20, 2014 04:41AM
"I do and don't want to finish this book. Mostly the 'don't' part, because I don't want it and my Stephen King spree to be over." — Feb 20, 2014 04:41AM
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read in January 2017
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As a fellow Malazan reader said elsewhere, this is the grossest Malazan book out there. To which I will add that I haven't read ANY book with more gross and grotesque and horrifying imagery. Mr Esslemont really went to town with the bugs and the worm
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read in October 2014
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Fantastic book, written in the most perfect Ambercrombian manner, with so many characters and so many plots that war became almost a side-note. All well and good, since it was absolutely impossible to pick any sides or take up too great a fondness fo
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"To think I used to like it when Bayaz showed up. Now he is the creepiest presence in the whole universe." — Mar 20, 2014 02:29AM
"To think I used to like it when Bayaz showed up. Now he is the creepiest presence in the whole universe." — Mar 20, 2014 02:29AM
“Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.”
― Last Argument of Kings
― Last Argument of Kings
“An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison.”
― Before They Are Hanged
― Before They Are Hanged
“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.”
― Before They Are Hanged
― Before They Are Hanged
“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”
― Last Argument of Kings
― Last Argument of Kings
“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
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