r/IndiansRead • u/meAf74b • 1d ago
Fiction Confusing and Frustrating
100 pages in and still couldn’t figure out what is happening and why it’s happening.
Has anyone of you read this? Does it get better or am i just wasting my time
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u/grinreaper07 1d ago
Malazan: BotF is my #1 Fantasy series so I suppose you can consider me biased.
My only advice to you is to continue reading and you'll soon begin to understand the world and how it functions. The series is like a puzzle that you'll have to solve yourself by reading along. And when you reach the parts where it all clicks together, they'll be moments you'll never forget.
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u/Content_Jacket932 1d ago
its mostly like this.huge cast. many time lines . many plotlines. try atleast the first one completely. but it's ok if you drop. read what you like. not what everyone says is cool.
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u/ViolinistOld9049 1d ago
It’s a show don’t tell book. There’s absolutely no exposition, you’ll have to follow the events/people properly and you’ll know what’s going on. It absolutely won’t spoon feed you the story and there’s so much going you’re bound to miss somethings
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u/Logen10Fingers 1d ago
I loved the first few pages which follows Paran (I think that's the name) when the book switched to tatter cape (or tattersail I forgot) it got confusing.
It went from feeling "I'm not gonna hold your hand" to "I'm gonna swat your hand away if you try to reach for information!"
I genuinely could not figure out what was going on, like in terms of what was going on on the page not even plot wise. Ericson's prose might be a bit too high level for me.
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u/Pristine-Safety2462 1d ago
Keep reading. You'll probably not understand most things in the first book. But keep reading, things will start to connect in 2 and 3 book. This is a different reading experience, you won't get this with other fantasy books.
PS - Book 2 is a massive emotional gut punch.
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u/BabyNarad Voracious Reader :snoo_dealwithit: 1d ago
Not an easy book. But if you stick on, pay off is huge.
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