The Healthy Dead

“Warning to lifestyle fascists everywhere. Don't read this or you'll go blind.”

One of the best novellas I've ever read. A beautiful mirror of our “wanna-be-healthy” and socially just society that really doesn't work and... well as is stated in the novella so many times... will lead to the end of civilization :D
The characters have great witty names too - king Necrotus the Nihile or Nauseo Sloven.
It's probably the best way to introduce Erikson to somebody because it's not as long as GotM but it still contains the best aspects of his writing. I laughed aloud several times, too. Definitely the best novella from the first three and it should've won some awards when it was released.

The message it contains is timeless and wraped up in a great and funny story.

Yoghurt!

The society was well-developed and intriguing without containing pages and pages of backstory and history. Many fantasy authors have written about the all-powerful corrupt ruler, and reading about the problems caused by a ruler who took goodness to a tyrannical extreme was an interesting change of pace. King Macrotus may have had good intentions, but restricting his people for their own good did not endear him to anyone.

Full review:

http://fantasycafe.blogspot.com/2009/01/review-of-healthy-dead.html