{"id":1728,"date":"2008-05-15T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T00:12:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-19T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:49:19","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1728\/","title":{"rendered":"Three quotes from Deadhouse Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>The quarrel struck her forehead an inch above her left eye. The iron head shattered the bone, plunging inward a moment before the spring-driven barbs opened like a deadly flower inside her brain.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>Maybe we didn&#8217;t listen because none of us believed we would ever reach the coast. Maybe Heboric decided the same after that first meal. Only I wasn&#8217;t thinking that far ahead, was I? No wise acceptance of the futility of all this. I mocked and ignored the advice out of spite, nothing more.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8216;Why did you leave the priesthood, Heboric? Skimmed the coffers, I suppose. So they cut your hands off, then tossed you onto the rubbish heap behind the temple. That&#8217;s certainly enough to make anyone take up writing history as a profession.&#8217;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This book is wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Felisin is an incredible character, I&#8217;m amazed at what Erikson can do. He went deep and with a kind of realism that other fantasy writers not only can&#8217;t do, but aren&#8217;t even willingly to do.<\/p>\n<p>While the first book lacked in characterization, this second improves and then goes beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quarrel struck her forehead an inch above her left eye. The iron head shattered the bone, plunging inward a moment before the spring-driven barbs opened like a deadly flower inside her brain. Maybe we didn&#8217;t listen because none of us believed we would ever reach the coast. Maybe Heboric decided the same after that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,34],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-malazan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}