You're right—WoT does not have the brutal, gritty, realism that ASOIAF has, so I can see why it may have been omitted...

Which is why I figured I'd get out while I was ahead! Or...at least not horribly behind.

I came down here to ask the exact same thing! MAN you guys are fast...

The Malazan Series is probably the most difficult fantasy series I've read, I think. That said, it's incredibly rewarding. It moves slowly, and I usually have to read an "easier" fantasy book in-between the Malazan books. They're well worth the effort, in my mind.

The series struck me as juvenile when I first started it, maybe because Kylar had become too powerful. I will say that the series matures as it goes on, and in the end is quite striking. I would highly recommend picking it back up, especially because it was a pretty quick read (for me).

My recommendation piggy-backs on yours: if you don't understand everything right away, don't worry. If you don't understand everything by the end of Book Two, don't worry.

Nono, "titular" as in, it shares its name with the title of the book. Malazan Book of the Fallen, Malazan Empire.

Yeah seriously—what the shit? He walks around? Chain him to a desk or a computer or typewriter or whatever the hell he uses.

I agree—the Malazan books are very difficult to read, IMO, and for that reason are tough to recommend. I will say that I think the Malazan books are much more rewarding than other fantasy books, and so their difficulty is permissible.

I know your feeling exactly. I put Book Three through a paper shredder yelling "WELL WHY DON'T YOU GO FUCK YOURSELF, GEORGE!?!"

The Way of Kings is also a very new book, so I always thought of its cover as an homage to the hokey covers of yore, and less a part of them. I don't know, maybe I'm just biased because I'm quite fond of Brandon Sanderson.

Oh come on. He's not looking them on on Wikipedia. He's got plenty of those images on his hard drive.

Doesn't the FCC have laws against those?

My wife's work just gave her a Kindle Fire. I want it really badly (she doesn't), but she's returning it as apparently my mother is getting me a Nook Tablet. Reading all of the positive reviews in this thread was making me think I was missing out by not getting the Fire, but your comment (and monkeybusiness') made me…

"And you actually can basically say they're knocking off Mustang. They've made their car look more like a Mustang so yea, they basically are."

"considering that there is nothing integrated explicitly like it in Android except for disparate speech functions."

Android's voice search has done all of that for years. What CapitalOrange is saying is that Android's voice commands also leverage the power of Google. So, rather than saying "Find XY Store near me," then getting an address for it, and then having to ask for navigation there (which is pretty much how Siri works), you…

"Google is now just gonna copy the hell out of what Apple does, although it is inferior to Google's own home-brew voice command?"

It's not entirely fair to call Siri iOS, as it wasn't something Apple developed, it was something Apple bought.

Wait, the actress's mother, or the character's mother? The character's mother appears in a lot of episodes, and I don't remember their voices being the same...