re: Malazan Book of the Fallen

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I am roughly two weeks into reading "Garden of the Moon" and it is slow going. I'm really at a loss envisioning the characters and getting a lay of the land. Is it just me or did others have the same experience starting out?

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Yup, I think pretty much all of us die-hard Malazan fans faced the same thing you are. It's actually a literary technique called in media res, although I'm not sure it was a good idea to use it in his very first book of the series.

As others have said, keep charging through it. The payoff is very, very much worth it. And once you get a good handle on the world/characters, Gardens of the Moon makes much more sense.

I've probably read the entire series four or five times now, and I still end up finding things I missed in the previous reads. To say the series is dense is an understatement.