It’s a silly graph and doesn’t count becuase of how much chaff exists in the two more recent ASOIAF books. There’s a lot of extraneous crap that needn’t be present (nevermind GRRM’s penchant for over-description of every little thing in a given scene) and wandering that exists so he could solve what he called “The…

Definitely better than Martin’s and borrows FAR fewer typical fantasy tropes than Martin’s series did. Both are good, but Malazan is the more fullfilling of the two book by book.

Sorry, but the Malazan Series is not a convoluted mess. In fact, the denoument of the last two books in the series is one of THE Finest endings to a series that I’ve ever read. Aside from that, the seperate volumes are completely original stories that CAN be largely self-contained within that given book. They NEVER…