# Whatcha Readin' Dec 09 Edition

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**Created:** [November 30, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-09-edition/519487 "2009-11-30T17:02:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-09-edition/519487/41 "2009-12-03T20:30:12Z")

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> [@Whatcha Readin' Nov 09 Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-nov-09-edition/515882/9):
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> 470 pages into **The Bonehunters** by Steven Erikson. It’s book 6 of The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Looking back on last month’s thread, I only read around 270 pages this past month.
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> ~750 pages left in this book! I might have more time to read over the Thanksgiving holiday.

I finished November 898 pages deep into this behemoth. That means I read 428 pages last month, which is really a lot for me these days. I am really enjoying this series. Contrary to the Wheel of Time at roughly the same stage in that series, I have the sense that Erikson knows where the series is going and I don’t feel like he’s wasted hundreds of pages at a time where very little happens. Lots happens in this book, all the time! In fact, the battle that I assumed would end this book occurs midway through it. I’m highly anticipating the impending confrontation(s) that I’m assuming will conclude this book.

Erikson’s energy for this series, its scope and breadth, and the amount of action he’s been packing into it is truly impressive. I hope to finish this book (~300 pages or so left) over my Christmas vacation and begin on book 7, **Reaper’s Gale**.

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