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Tahirovic posted:I've tried to had my Kindle read to me but that sound/voice is just not good, wonder if it could actually play proper audio books, that would make for nice package deals in the Kindle store. Can't your phone play audiobooks if your Kindle can't? I feel like even my non-smart phone a few years back could still play audiobooks if they were the right formats.
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socialsecurity posted:What annoys me is they pronounce some words differently even with the same character. They are married and record in their house they could coordinate that. Otherwise though they are pretty good I found the versions with music and sound effects distracting. I tend to breeze over these cases because people don't pronounce my own name the same every time.
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OneTwentySix posted:Can't your phone play audiobooks if your Kindle can't? I feel like even my non-smart phone a few years back could still play audiobooks if they were the right formats. Google play has a free, built in robot voice reader, but afaik it must be on DRM free ebooks from authors like Sanderson.
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Feb 12, 2019 19:13
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Sab669 posted:I know they've changed some pronunciations from book to book, but I can't think of any instances within the same book where they pronounce things differently. Maybe they do and I'm just not listening that closely, though. There was one prominent instance in the finale of book 1 of Stormlight. Reading pronounced Sadeas completely differently from how it had been pronounced the entire book and it confused me enough that I thought I had missed a chapter introducing a character or something. There are probably other instances, but that's the only one that stands out to me.
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Taffer posted:There was one prominent instance in the finale of book 1 of Stormlight. Reading pronounced Sadeas completely differently from how it had been pronounced the entire book and it confused me enough that I thought I had missed a chapter introducing a character or something. There are probably other instances, but that's the only one that stands out to me. I noticed that Michael Kramer mispronounces or just misreads names a bunch of times, but he's a pro so even the mistakes are read with the same confidence as everything else, and it ends up fine.
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Was it Sadeus? Do you split between the a & d or the d & e? SAD e us or sa DE us?
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Feb 12, 2019 22:29
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Holy poo poo an exciting Perrin chapter (KoD 28) Finally fighting the Shaido. Also Tam is alive? Did I know this already? I thought he died in Book 1. Maybe I knew and just forgot.
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Feb 12, 2019 23:01
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Nah, he was just gravely wounded from a
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Sab669 posted:Holy poo poo an exciting Perrin chapter (KoD 28) He's been here and there in earlier books.
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Feb 13, 2019 00:07
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Oh, yea that does ring a bell 
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Sab669 posted:Holy poo poo an exciting Perrin chapter (KoD 28) He was a major character during the entire Perrin defends Two Rivers subplot in the 4th or 5th book.
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Ha, I was listening to CoT on the way to work. During an Elayne chapter, there was a character pronounced beer-ged-duh. Never heard of her before so I assumed it was a new character. 5 minutes later I realized it was really Birgitte. They've been pronouncing it bur-geet-tuh from books 2-9 and now randomly changed pronunciations. I was so confused.
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Feb 13, 2019 17:43
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To be fair, assuming it's a new character seldom steers you wrong
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Feb 14, 2019 02:07
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sanderson's only function is as protein-rich biomass for the starving poor
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Feb 14, 2019 11:20
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i myself will consume his flesh and gain his fame
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Feb 14, 2019 11:21
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though i'm not starving and am in fact monstrously, gloriously obese, just a perfect rosy sphere of folds and ripples, endlessly hungering. i am poor though, having invested my fortune unwisely, and so i deserve to partake of the man, this man, who has made me so unhappy
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Feb 14, 2019 11:22
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the trouble is that it's difficult for me to reach him, as a person of my stature can move only by rolling horizontally across the landscape
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Feb 14, 2019 11:24
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but i'll get him eventually. i'll eat him. i ate robert jordan and i'll eat sanderson too. i'll eat every single last one of your heroes you simple idiots, you fools, you charlatans of the human species
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Feb 14, 2019 11:31
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trash! trash! trash! trash!! TRASH! TRAHSJG (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 14, 2019 11:31
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Sir this is an Arby's drive through window.
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I just realized something. When we first meet Dalinar, he's the reasonable person, the only Alethi not obsessed with fighting, the only reasonable authority figure. But this personality is relatively new, even in Way of Kings. Peak flashback Dalinar was only like 5-8 years before Way of Kings. No wonder nobody trusts him when he tries to sway the other nations to his budding coalition. He was the Blackthorn at most 10 years ago, if I get my timeline right.
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Yea, it's a pretty recent change. I haven't read Oathbringer since it came out, but I remember being surprised at how late in his life a lot the flashback events were. If he's, what, in his 40's? I assumed most of the "The Blackthorn" was like in his younger 20's but...
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Torrannor posted:I just realized something. When we first meet Dalinar, he's the reasonable person, the only Alethi not obsessed with fighting, the only reasonable authority figure. But this personality is relatively new, even in Way of Kings. Peak flashback Dalinar was only like 5-8 years before Way of Kings. No wonder nobody trusts him when he tries to sway the other nations to his budding coalition. He was the Blackthorn at most 10 years ago, if I get my timeline right. If the series were structured differently his characterization and depiction would make him suspect #1 for secret villain, and not like, Taravangian. It'd probably have made Odium's play in book 3 seem like it could have worked. And in general WoK could've been way better with a lot more ambiguity between Sadeas and Dalinar until the betrayal.
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Sab669 posted:Yea, it's a pretty recent change. The thing is both Kaladin and Shallan are like not even 20. Dalinar's flashbacks start in his early adulthood and move forward to I think just after Gavilar's death (I need a reread, too!). That's like a 20 year span.
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:If the series were structured differently his characterization and depiction would make him suspect #1 for secret villain, and not like, Taravangian. It'd probably have made Odium's play in book 3 seem like it could have worked. i do kind of like how everyone that thought he was loving nuts in book 1 was.. pretty much correct. he's like someone that had a traumatic brain injury and comes out of recovery with a totally different personality, but he's keeping said injury and amnesia completely secret
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I've got like 10 minutes left on Knife of Dreams, pulled up the wiki article to review everything and... Honesty I don't recall like anything about Semirhage with the Rand summary 🤔 Overall definitely a better book than the last 3-4, but I'm not sure I'll enjoy the remaining books much more than any other in the series. Like I can't imagine it getting so much better for me by this point.
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Sab669 posted:I've got like 10 minutes left on Knife of Dreams, pulled up the wiki article to review everything and... Honesty I don't recall like anything about Semirhage with the Rand summary 🤔 Semirhage was High Lady Suroth, Tuon's Truthspeaker. Not sure if that's explicitly spelled out, but I believe it is. A lot is happening in that chapter, so I can understand missing it.
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enigma105 posted:Semirhage was High Lady Suroth, Tuon's Truthspeaker. Not sure if that's explicitly spelled out, but I believe it is. A lot is happening in that chapter, so I can understand missing it. She was Tuon's Truthspeaker, but Suroth is the darkfriend Seanchan who worked with Liandrin to kidnap Nynaeve and Egwene and take them off the continent in book 2. Semirhage's Seanchan cover name was Anath.
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Ah, got'chya. My auditory listening skills are not top notch, and listening while driving does not help. e; Red Sisters being all, "Sup dudes- wanna get bonded?" had me like  though
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Sab669 posted:Ah, got'chya. My auditory listening skills are not top notch, and listening while driving does not help. The real wham moment is Mazrim Taim saying "Let the Lord of Chaos rule.", confirming that he really is a darkfriend. Remember, that was the Dark One's command to the Forsaken in book 6 (Lord of Chaos).
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Feb 20, 2019 05:11
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Did I seriously just listen to like 3 hours worth of a loving bath?
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Did I seriously just listen to like 3 hours worth of a loving bath? Book 10 eh?
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RC Cola posted:Book 10 eh? Yyyyup
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Does is really matter? She takes a bath, but she also makes a pretty important bargain with the Wavemistress while she's bathing.
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It lasted 3 loving hours in the audiobook. That’s absurd.
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Oh. Yeah, that's a problem. I think it's better to read WoT, since you can read faster than somebody can read those words to you. But if you're listening to the books while driving to work or something like that, then you're stuck with the books originating in a time where audiobooks weren't the big thing they are today.
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Torrannor posted:confirming that he really is a darkfriend. Remember I did not make that connection at all  although I did recall that was a previous book title
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Someone on another forum was riffing on the term “darkfriend” during my readthrough *masked figure steps from an alley holding a knife* Hey want to catch a movie later
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It's a little cheesy, but I don't think it's any worse than any other "fantasy terminology". I've seen people complain about "Allomancy" when reading Mistborn and I was just like, is that any worse than Pyromancy or Cryomancy? Started The Gathering Storm prologue this morning on my way into the office. I like that it's just a couple of farmhands* being like, "Oh gently caress - the Everstorm!" Also just started Part 4 of Steelheart. RIP Megan. The book is fun but I'm not big on the characters. I think Skyward was slightly better in that regard, but not by much. Still got 70 pages. * Is "Thulin" a character I've seen before? The name rings a bell.
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Book 12 spoilers but loving Egwene. "Oh I am so upset and angry about these sitters forcing a fourth oath on other sisters. This is so bad and evil. Definitely not something that I have personally done." Magical princess. And always complaining about Rand. Oh no. We have to stop the dragon from going around because it's *our* job to rule the world. Get hosed. Edit Egwene: 'its one step short of compulsion. ' Look I'm Egwene. Rules apply to everyone but me. Also I love the tower so much. It's so important to me even though I spent a total of 8 months there ever. RC Cola fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Feb 20, 2019 |
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