Book Thread: VGChartz gotta start readin'!

[Khuutra]

haxxiy said:

Khuutra said:

Steven Erikson beggars every other fantasy writer in terms of sheer, horrifying scope and import and the vast ideas that he throws around like so much rice at a wedding.

I'll finish Toll the Hounds tomorrow, but when a savage, 11,000 page story like this one is the barest footnote in the context of an enormous, never-ending conflict, and the story keeps hitting you over and over and over with nre revelations

The Jaghut, my God the Jaghut.

Yeah that's why he is possibly my favorite writer. My only gripes are some weird names (Darujistan and Whiskeyjack come to mind) and the way he sometimes borrow from hollywoodian endings to finish his own books. The only one who possibly comes closer in fantasy is George Martin, who excels in characters / intrigues and complexity but lacks a bit of the magical, epic scope of, say, Erikson and Jordan, though he seems to be moving towards it. 

Erikson has the advantage of providing an excellent sense of cultural diversity, as if he has created a world.

I do not think I would compare Jordan to either him or Martin.