Crack'd Pot Trail
Bauchelain and Korbal Broach Return in Another Tale of the Malazan Empire
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4.0 • 31 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
It is an undeniable truth: give evil a name and everyone's happy. Give it two names and…why, they're even happier.
Intrepid necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, scourges of civilization, raisers of the dead, reapers of the souls of the living, devourers of hope, betrayers of faith, slayers of the innocent, and modest personifications of evil, have a lot to answer for and answer they will. Known as the Nehemoth, they are pursued by countless self-professed defenders of decency, sanity, and civilization. After all, since when does evil thrive unchallenged? Well, often—but not this time.
Hot on their heels are the Nehemothanai, avowed hunters of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach. In the company of a gaggle of artists and pilgrims, stalwart Mortal Sword Tulgord Vise, pious Well Knight Arpo Relent, stern Huntsman Steck Marynd, and three of the redoubtable Chanter brothers (and their lone sister) find themselves faced with the cruelest of choices. The legendary Crack'd Pot Trail, a stretch of harsh wasteland between the Gates of Nowhere and the Shrine of the Indifferent God, has become a tortured path of deprivation.
Will honor, moral probity, and virtue prove champions in the face of brutal necessity? No, of course not. Don't be silly.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Erikson (The Crippled God) mixes a pinch of Canterbury Tales, a heaping handful of A Thousand and One Nights, and a dose of the Donner Party tragedy in this compelling, gory novella featuring a gathering of characters from the Malazan Book of the Fallen universe. Avas Didion Flicker, a poet of dubious reliability, relates the wonderings and wanderings of a peculiar group of hardened warriors, poets, and performers. These pilgrims to the Shrine of the Indifferent God find 23 days into their journey that the going (which was never easy) has become much more perilous especially to those who are of an artistic nature. Erikson weaves a fine tale of woe and wonder along the trail, including several layers of meaning for longtime fans while providing new readers a fine point of entry into the mammoth Malazan series.
Customer Reviews
cracked pot trail
Loved it.Always want to copy and paste parts of his writing for sharing.Time to start at the beginning for the forth time the Mazatlon series.
Horrendous
I read and enjoyed both all of the Malazan Book of the Fallen books, and the all of the previous Bauchelain and Korbal Broach books. But this book is so bad that I can't finish it. It starts off with pages and pages and pages and pages of boring descriptions of boring characters, on a boring journey. I'm sure he thought he was being clever. I can see the start of some sort of mocking of the people who review artists (no doubt people like me in this particular review). But in this case, all that resulted was a horribly boring book with stilted writing, hateful characters, and nothing even remotely resembling a single interesting occurance. Quite simply, this is easily the worst book I have tried to read in at least the last 5 years. Do yourself a favor and skip this. Don't let his otherwise fine track record as an author fool you.
If there was a way to demand compensation for the "pain and suffering" inflicted by trying to read this boring book, I would ask for it. If there was a way to get my money back for this travesty, I would. As someone who has been a fan of Erikson's up to this point and who has bought every other book he published, I cannot say how horribly disapointed I am in this. Again, all I can say is "Do NOT buy this".
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