/lit/ - Literature

>>8536694
Reading the Malazan series right now. Currently on Deadhouse Gates and loving the series thus far.

But does anyone feel like the books are written for the amusement of the author himself and not for an audience? I feel like the books frequently reference places, events and creatures and doesn't slow down to (sometimes ever) explain them to the reader. Like, I've had to put down the book and look shit up online multiple times for Deadhouse Gates, and other times I simply cruise past it hoping there's an explanation somewhere down the road.

One example: what the fuck are rhizar? As far as I can tell its some kind of little winged creature but the book literally NEVER explains what they are. Why? Was it just poorly edited?

mazzla book of the fazzla,

there has literally never been a more epic series, perhaps not even the silmarillion. You get to see thousands of years of character development and Godly battles from first hand, the series is so huge, the word "epic" doesn't even do it justice. And I mean huge in scale, not just in number of pages, (like 10000 all together)