[gufnork]

Originally Posted by Zapp Brannigan

You didn't enjoy the Chain of Dogs? It's one of my favourite storylines of the whole series.

Only read the first two so far, Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates.

Didn't dislike them, just think maybe they overwhelmed me a little on first reading, particularly the second one.

[mar-z]

Is Chain of Dogs being made into a movie? I thought I heard something about that.

Sorry for the off topic.

[Zapp Brannigan]

Originally Posted by gufnork

Only read the first two so far, Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates.

Didn't dislike them, just think maybe they overwhelmed me a little on first reading, particularly the second one.

The Chain of Dogs was one of the main storylines in Deadhouse Gates...

I remember hearing something about movie rights, but I don't think it'd be possible to pull of the scope. There's a lot of background information that would take up too much time for a movie.

[gufnork]

Originally Posted by Zapp Brannigan

The Chain of Dogs was one of the main storylines in Deadhouse Gates...

I remember hearing something about movie rights, but I don't think it'd be possible to pull of the scope. There's a lot of background information that would take up too much time for a movie.

Yeah, to be honest i remember Deadhouse Gates being a bit of a blur. Think i pretty much zoned out and went through a lot of it on auto-pilot. Definite re-read needed there then

[Zapp Brannigan]

Originally Posted by gufnork

Yeah, to be honest i remember Deadhouse Gates being a bit of a blur. Think i pretty much zoned out and went through a lot of it on auto-pilot. Definite re-read needed there then

This is a series where you really can't just skim the pages. Everything is important. It's crazy how much stuff I missed on my first read through (and second for that matter!)

[ixoy]

Originally Posted by Zapp Brannigan

This is a series where you really can't just skim the pages. Everything is important. It's crazy how much stuff I missed on my first read through (and second for that matter!)

I really need to do a re-read of this at some point. With "Orb Sceptre Throne" I'm missing out on things that happened relatively recently so who knows what I missed in the earlier books.

[Codofwar]

Fantastic series so far, currently reading House of Chains and its brilliant. Very heavy going series at times and i have read a few books inbetween each of them so far but they dept of all the characters and story line in general is fantastic..

[shockwave]

I read the first book and found it a real slog, bought the second book and couldnt face it, its been sitting there for 2 years now

[cbsam74]

Original Poster here.. Starting reading the first book "Gardens of the Moon" over the weekend... It's heavy going, lots of characters and def thrown into the deep end but I have to say that I am really enjoying it so far.

[gufnork]

Originally Posted by cbsam74

Original Poster here.. Starting reading the first book "Gardens of the Moon" over the weekend... It's heavy going, lots of characters and def thrown into the deep end but I have to say that I am really enjoying it so far.

Yeah, gardens of the moon was very good. I believe he wrote that one a fair bit before the rest. I liked it a lot.

[AOH77A]

Best series I have read, heavy going but that makes it all the more enjoyable.

The series is so good it can make it hard for subsequent books to compare.

Just started the Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson and found it boring and simplistic in comparison to the Malazan books.

[AnCapaillMor]

In all fairness a metal gear solid plot is more straight forward than the malazan books.

Picked up an audio version of gardens of the moon, really looking forward to the tehol\bugg conversations when i eventually get to those books on audio.

[Zapp Brannigan]

Just a heads up for people. Erikson is doing an AMA on Reddit

[fenris]

I usually read the books first then when a new one comes out audiobook from the start of the series to catch up, otherwise you just miss too many details.
Bearing in mind that each audiobook is about 16 hours long it can take a few weeks to get caught up again!

[Boro]

Chain of Dogs was one of the most epic stories I have ever read. The sheer emotion of the end of it was breathtaking. I really didnt like the other arc covered in Deadhouse gates though and when I re-read the book, I tend to skip over those sections.