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Title: Some good, the rest sluggish and/or absurd
Review: I really enjoyed Gardens of the Moon, and had high hopes for Deadhouse Gates. It started out well, very engaging. 1/3 of the way through it starts to bog down, then proceeds to the absurd. It seems around every corner, Erikson is trying to outdo his last description of grisly death. I started rolling my eyes at the predictable "how much more gruesome can I make the next scene" and also there's always some new terribly powerful entity to make mincemeat of the latest extremely powerful entity. To the point of absurdity, somewhat laughable.The interminable march of Coltaine's army, I ended up skimming over. Got through the book pretty quickly that way and felt less resentful of having my time wasted. The last straw for me was, one thousand of the cursed crucifixes??? At this point, I'm assuming the reader was supposed to be shocked and saddened, but I was just frustrated. It and other scenes were absurdly excessive.
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