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Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Steven Erikson (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 959 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Books; New edition edition (1 Oct 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553813110
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553813111
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.6 x 5.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,036 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Erikson is an extraordinary writer....treat yourself' Stephen R. Donaldson. 'A fantasy world as rich and detailed as you're likely to encounter....so engrossing you'll be hard-pressed to put it aside...an astounding debut' SF Site. 'Complex, challenging...Erikson's strengths are his grown-up characters and his ability to create a world every bit as intricate and messy as our own' J. V. Jones author of The Book Of Words trilogy.

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In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the holly desert of Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers prepare for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in its size and savagery, this maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust will embroil the whole Malazan Empire.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Even Better Than the First Book, 7 Feb 2003
By A. Whitehead "Werthead" (Colchester, Essex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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The first book in this series, Gardens of the Moon, was a gloriously complex, action-packed romp of a novel, with a huge cast of entertaining, well-drawn characters and an absolute refusal to bown down to genre cliches or expectations. Book 2, Deadhouse Gates, continues many of these ideals in an admirable fashion. We're wrenched halfway around the world to the continent of Seven Cities, which is about to rise up against the Malazan Empire. A totally new cast is introduced, although a few minor players from Book 1 soon arrive to provide a bridge to the first book. There are three main plots developing in tandem: Felisin Paran's escape from slavery, General Coltaine's epic march across the continent and a plot to assassinate the Malazan Empress. The Coltaine storyline is the heart of the novel and is truly horrific at times, and the conclusion is truly gut-wrenching (the reader is as angry as the characters are at the heartless betrayal that ends the novel, and the poetic justice which rewards it is sweet). Deadhouse Gates is much darker and even more complex than the first book. It reads well as a stand-alone novel, though I recommend you read the first one as it's a slightly gentler introduction to the world. Book 2 is also clever in that many events take place simultaneously with Book 3, providing a link to that novel. Superb.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This series just keeps getting better and better . . ., 15 Oct 2001
By Lillian Butler "Texas wireworker" (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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I discovered Erikson when a friend handed me his first book and said "You'll like him. He out-Black-Company's Glenn Cook." I devoured Gardens of The Moon in 3 days and waited until I could get the paperback of Deadhouse Gates. As in Gardens, Erikson weaves the stories of several compelling characters, including our old friends Crokus, Sorry, and Fiddler, as well as people only mentioned in passing from Gardens, like Captain Param's sisters . . . Unlike most military fantasy authors, Erikson understands that it's the characters that drive a story. And he spins a great one here.
I own 2 copies each of his books--one for me and one to lend. I just wish he was widely available here in the US.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Think of the Deadhouse Gates : Think on Death, 28 May 2006
By Mr. B. Pollard "shadowcrab" (Durham, England.) - See all my reviews
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Another epic escapade into the world of the Fallen.

This is no Tolkien vision of sweeping glades and smiling elder faces, this is a brooding, brutal and ultimately savage work of fantasy. Really, you can't help but love it.

The question that seems to lie at the heart of so many of the characters is: 'What is preferable, to fall so far that no remnants of your other self are left or to have died innocent, unfallen.'

Battles are fought, wars are waged, yet no distinction is made between the foes. Both are fighting for noble values, both are "good" and yet both have the capacity for evil. Something I've never come across in a fantasy novel before & depending upon your take on originality, a brilliant concept.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Epic Fantasy
This is an amazing book, every epic fantasy reader deserves to read this book. TO every Fantasy lover out there, please read Malazan books of the fallen, a song of ice and fire... Read more
Published 1 month ago by rpg gamer

5.0 out of 5 stars Brutal, tragic, heart rending and possibly the best second book ever!!!
I read Gardens of the Moon on a dare from the author's preface. No such challenge was required for Deadhouse Gates and I was still unprepared for it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Gael B

4.0 out of 5 stars Long but worth it
If you like your fantasy black and white, then this series/book is NOT for you. If you are a fan of Dan Abnett, Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan or Terry Goodkind then I would... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Greg R. Pettit

5.0 out of 5 stars People need to read them ALL!
I can understand some of the other reviews about complexity and you dont get any feeling for the characters (so far) im on toll of the hounds the latest and i love all the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by M. D. Williamson

5.0 out of 5 stars A candidate for best fantasy ever
Erikson has produced an all time masterpiece work with this book.

Buy it, read it and never think of being put off by people who criticise its "slow" start... Read more
Published 19 months ago by J. M. Norton

5.0 out of 5 stars A Stunning Epic
This book is the second in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series and it deffinatly lives up to the standards set by the first book, however if you are looking to experience a book... Read more
Published 21 months ago by S. M. Templeman

4.0 out of 5 stars walk with the chain
ok let me start by saying that when i first started to read this book i was a little dissapointed. where was whiskeyjack and the bridgeburners. Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2007 by dolfanuk

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
I suppose it is inevitable that many will hate these books as they actually challenge the reader to anticipate and speculate on what is happening and why, isnstead of handing yu... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2007 by Mr. Michael A. Potter

2.0 out of 5 stars Too boring
Like one of the reviewers below, I had to give up halfway through the book. I'd manage to go through Gardens of the Moon which, even if it had some boring moments too, managed... Read more
Published on 29 Jul 2006 by Pompompom

2.0 out of 5 stars Dissappointment
First off, I genuinely liked the first book of the series, Gardens of the Moon. Therefore, and because most of the reviews of the sequel I had read were good, I had high hopes for... Read more
Published on 17 May 2006 by Alpha

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