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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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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
“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.”
― Before They Are Hanged
― Before They Are Hanged
“Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?”
― The Blade Itself
― The Blade Itself
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
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