/lit/ - Literature

Did I fall for the Malazan meme?
>It gets better after GotM!
>Don't get filtered!
>He was so young then!

The opening of Deathhouse Gates reads like
>Edgelord anime, in a
>Setting of every worldbuilding nonsense a 20yr DM can conceive of, with
>Straight DnD mechanics and nonsense logic, with
>Mediocre dialogue, and
>Endless over-the-top biggliest biggest thing that can happen always, alongside
>An excess of characters/places such that none are going to get developed properly, who
>Have the most convoluted internal logic possible, clearly just so they can move from one setpiece anime battle to the next, with
>No apparent themes, and
>Passable prose at best, that
>Leaves important details for the end because... I really don't know why he does this habitually

I hit ~page 50, and I have so very little enthusiasm to continue.
It's a more polished turd, that's all.
>We're in a boat yall
>Oh no, there's a massive sea centipede that's so scary!
>Except oh no it's a psychic shapeshifting demon thing! Power Level 1000!
>It wants to kill us suddenly because why not!
>For some reason it stays above the water for a full minute while it does [evil villain speech] where we can shoot it!
>Pop it with an ace shot exploding ball lol it blew up, gg ez game!
>*Proceed like nothing happened*
>Oh there's some horsemen riding on the coast...
>THEY MUST BE THERE BECAUSE US!
>Let's take a totally unnecessarily convoluted route instead, despite being in deep cover, because 0.1% chance they're warning the authorities about us, via horse, while we go via boat, and they beat us there...
I'm done.

What next, anons?