Toll the Hounds: Book Eight of The Malazan Book of the Fallen
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765348853 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said HOLY WOW! Brilliantagain!. This series is incredible! Toll the Hounds is my favorite by far. So many great characters in an increasingly intriguing story which hits you on so many levels. "A lesson can only become a lesson when one has reached the level of humility required to heed it." - Erikson Laugh, weep, rage, and Witness!. It's hard for me to describe how great I think this author is It's hard for me to describe how great I think this author is Steven Erikson is like the literary equivalent to Beethoven or Rachmaninov in technique and compositional skill. His enormous, elaborate stories that take place over thousands of pages come together to form the most amazing epic tale.. tightened up any avid reader of this series that gets thru book 7 doesn't need a good review to open book 8, you're hooked already. but for those both hooked and disappointed by degrading quality and increasing page numbers in the last few entries, i can say this will assuage some yours and my own fears. things are tightened up and kept on track. there's a great deal less irrelevant, trite dialog. the stakes are continuing to expand in respect to the old gods and ancient pantheonic relationships and this is good. it's still too long, but not
. All rights reserved. Warrior-hero Anomander Rake subtly manipulates the factions from the sidelines. (Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Finally, the gods' slaves and representatives and the common people of the Darujhistan meet in one dark, thunderous, transformative night. This is a praiseworthy entry in the massive series encompassing multitudes of characters, complex plot lines and grotesque violence, but it's not lightweight in tone or in heft, and new readers will be entirely at sea. The Crippled God, born in the city of Darujhistan, and the Dying God, who bleeds a poison that enthralls and addicts his followers, both vie for a place in the formal pantheon, using humans and the goddess-descended T
It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrivehand in hand, dancing. In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of HoundsAnd in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. Hidden hands pluck th