I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be hard pressed to decide what I enjoyed more: the richly and ominously magical world of Malaz and Genabackis; the large cast of sympathetically-rendered characters; or the way the story accumulates to a climax that hits like machinegun fire. My advice to anyone who might listen to me is, Treat yourself to Gardens of the Moon. And my entirely selfish advice to Steven Erikson is, write faster.

However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.