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Did you know that we too left civilization behind? The scribblers were closing in on all sides, you see. The clerks with their purple tongues and darting eyes, their shuffling feet and sloped shoulders, their bloodless lists. Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering!’ The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. ‘Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?’ Karsa grinned. ‘Why, a civilized one.’
legit the mbotf is a masterwork and Ericson's unending compassion for people that comes through was a significant for me developing a healthier view on human foibles.
Preaching to the choir. Unfortunately I have little success rate with getting friends to convert to Malazan.
Serious question, and despite my tone, I mean this in a genuinely good-faith and non-hostile way: what do you like about the Malazan books? I read the first two at the suggestion of my coworkers, but I wasn't a fan and neither of them were able to articulate why they enjoyed the series particularly well.
Like, Deadhouse kinda lingered on the whole "indigenous uprising is brutally murdering our perfect colonizers" and I was struggling to understand why I was supposed to care about the colonizers in that situation. Made it hard to sympathize with Coltaine et al.
Oh also without spoilers the series later goes into absolutely scathing criticism of colonialism and capitalism. At points the characters basically turn to the reader and go "Holy fuck shit I cannot even fathom what sort of imbecile, what absolute cretin, would organise society this way" so it is worth approaching the books in good faith.
The author is an anthropologist and so I think overall he is trying to present a nuanced, almost anti-fantasy world. There aren't really good vs evil conflicts and tribal cultures that the books take the side of against empire are shown to have absolutely hideous punishments applied incorrectly while the glorious empire with its plumbing and cities rounds up and executes children in case they become politically inconvenient while sending thousands into pointless meat grinders.