lol. So, the only book of his that I've ever tried to read is a book called The Devil's Labyrinth. And it starts out with a couple kids. Though I haven't gotten much further than that. I don't pick it up very often.
I finished Neuropath. Steve and Nick were way too nice in their review. For me, there was nothing thrilling about the book, the "questions" that it raised were absolutely retarded, and the ideas were harped upon over, and over, and over, and...really I don't think I could repeat those two words any less than an infinite number of times and get even close to how ham-fisted it was. The dude can write, yes. But prose is not story. And there's essentially nothing in the book that'll ever make me want to revisit its pages. In fact (and it just about kills me to say this) I'll probably give this one away. Travesty, I know, but it was seriously THAT bad. I'm just going to stick to Bakker's fantasy stuff.
I got sick last week and read Storm of Swords (because my copy of Memories of Ice was up at my school office) while I was laid out on the couch. It was a decent read, but not great. Better than Clash of Kings. There are very few characters that I even care to read about in the series (Jon Snow, Arya Stark, and Tyrion Lannister) and so slogging through the rest was tough.
I'm going to burn through Hunger Games as soon as my wife finishes reading it, and then finally get to Memories of Ice. I'm really looking forward to it now. I meant to read these first three Malazan books straight through. So much for the best laid plans of mice and men.
