RaaaR

... and I mean this in the best way possible, with enormous fondness.

I'm sitting here re-listening to the series, on House of Chains where L'oric and Heboric are theorizing about the jade giants and otataral. I'm trying to reconnect the information to everything else that I know, to see the bigger picture.
And I just had to put my coffee down for a second while my eyes glazed over.. I mean: magic, humans chatting with gods over a pint, death means nothing, aliens, dinosaurs with swords for hands, dinosaurs with advanced technology, a moon shattering and people shrug and get on with it, traveling through a god's veins across continents...

How the hell do you make this shit up and

I'm planning my first reread, and would like to start with Path to Ascendancy, moving on to Night of Knives, then to the main series.
Kellanved's Reach is set for release on February 19th.

From past experience, does anyone know how long till the audiobook is released?

Hi guys.
My company's 2019 benefits enrollment started. I'd like to take advantage of pre-tax commuter benefits, but AC Transit hasn't yet published their planned fare increases for monthly transbay passes that I can find. The monthly pass is $162 at the moment.

Does anyone know (or can make an educated guess about) what the transbay monthly pass cost is likely going to be? Can you extrapolate from past experience?

Might be difficult to gauge this year because of the transit center fiasco, but I'll take into account any helpful feedback I can get.

Good morning, everyone.
If you've ridden an elevated vehicle while driving in the left lane of the eastern span of the bay bridge, heading into the city, you may have noticed a narrow platform attached to the side of the bridge, between the two directions (east lanes and west lanes).
Birds are perched and nesting on this narrow platform. Every few yards there are angled mirrors that the birds likely see themselves in. Some of the mirrors are destroyed, and most of them are dirty.
Does anyone know what the deal with these mirrors are? Some sort of study? I've always been curious.

It frustrates me to see people write impassioned posts and comments about something they didn't like in the series or that is against the majority opinion and get downvoted for it.

It's not about karma or any such nonsense, but about their thoughts getting pushed down, in some cases into being hidden if they cross a downvoting threshold, which subsequently subverts interesting discussion, which I feel is a major idea behind us being here.

In reality, it's too much to ask of all users to observe etiquette of online discourse. I was wondering how you guys feel about disabling downvoting on the sub? I know sometimes there are legitimate reasons to want to downvote something. Spoiler c

It's been a long long journey. I'm happy, sad, overwhelmed, and also relieved it's over. More than any other series I've read, I have a love/hate relationship with Malazan. At times I'm blown away by how immense and complex the story is and I feel like I want to start a reread immediately after I finish to see how the story fits together now that I know how it plays out. At other times I feel like the story is just ridiculous and the characters' extended inner monologues are meaningless philosophising too vague or grounded in a specific situation to be of any true worth.

On to more specific things. I wasn't sold on Tavore's supposed military genius. I think a couple of characters (inclu

Of course the series is called Malazan Book of the Fallen, I know this, but can nothing good happen?
I've reached chapter 18. Murillio just died in the last chapter trying to get Harllo back. It's getting predictable at this point.

If someone sets out to do good, they won't be able to and will likely get killed in the process.
If someone's suffering or wonderful character is being described in detail, they're going to die soon.
If two people develop feelings for each other, it won't pan out.
Oh you like this character? Nope, they're going to die. And because this is Malazan, maybe they'll come back as ghosts and maybe they won't, so you can't even move on properly.

Did Mall

I don't have the benefit of being able to look things up in text format. Michael Page reads some sections not as a narrator, but as if someone in the book is reading a passage, but you can't tell who exactly is doing the reading or what they're reading.

For example, I just heard a section that I believe is about Kruppe choking on pie and spitting some of it on Meese. Page is reading this section in someone's voice, not his regular narrator tone.

Is there any additional insight in the books why he's using a different tone?
Am I supposed to ignore this for now and it'll become clear later?
How are these parts displayed in the books?

A similar situation happened earlier, but

I just finished Abasard's part in Reaper's Gale. I think his death hit me harder than any deaths other than Whiskeyjack's and Itkovian's. But considering how small Abasard's part is in this series by comparison, that's saying quite a bit.

You're following Redmask's story and you understand his motivation, where he's coming from and why he's doing what he's doing. Not really a bad guy (at least not as far as I am in the books). He just wants back what was taken from his people.
And then you hear Abasard's story. How can you not share the joy of his observations about the vastness of the world, how there's room for everyone in it, his happiness that his family is healing and getting hea

I'm in love with Tehol and Bugg's interactions. Is there a word to describe this absurd nonchalant type of humor? Dry? My god, Erikson does it so frikkin well! It brings me such immense joy, for some reason.

I think we saw this type of humor with Gesler, Stormy, and Co in Deadhouse Gates. And I loved it back then as well. Knowing that Midnight Tides is set in the distant past, I'm sad that there might not be more of Tehol and Bugg after this book (though with Malazan, there is no guarantee).

Are there at least more characters in coming books that have this type of humorous interaction?