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Nitrousoxide posted:Okay, I finished the second book and overall it wasn't worth the slog. The book could have had about 300 to 400 pages chopped out without loosing anything. However the twist was good enough and it leaves the universe in a state that seems like the next one could be good. I felt the same way about book 2, but thought book 3 was really exciting pretty much the whole way through. Stick with it!
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Thyrork posted:E: Having said that, I feel some of you are taking Lift too seriously. A story with her as a focus character might be told from multiple perspectives. Give Lift a chance goons, lighten up! The Lift interlude was one of my favorite parts of the whole book, it's silly and fun and her powers and spren are neat. I think it's likely that by the time she does become a POV character, several years will have passed in the story and she'll be less of a little kid and have a motivation beyond shoving rolls into her mouth.
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nucleicmaxid posted:You are what's wrong with the world today. Can't wait to see Lift re-establish the Order of the Awesomedancers
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Nov 25, 2014 22:12
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I didn't see this mentioned yet - Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell is now available as a stand-alone e-book, it's $3 in the kindle store.
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Mar 10, 2015 13:32
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senae posted:Elantris is probably about 1/3 of a good book, and it's safe to skip that unless you'd like to see how bad Sanderson was when he started out (so bad). Sixth of the Dusk is also Cosmere, and I'd recommend picking it up. I read he is putting out a revised edition of Elantris sometime soon, which cleans up some of the awkward writing and makes some other changes to improve the book. If you're gong to read it, I'd wait for that version at least. And for what it's worth, even though Elantris is flawed I still enjoyed it, it helped that I went into it with the mentality that it was his first novel and was going to be rough. His novellas are all good to great, as others have said. A lot of fantasy writers seem incapable of writing anything but multi-volume epics, and I think it says a lot about him as an author that he can also write effective short fiction that still includes interesting world-building. The magic system in The Emporer's Soul is deep enough to be the basis of a whole novel, or even a series, but he reigns it in and focuses on telling a good story.
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Mar 22, 2015 20:31
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Thyrork posted:E: I mean, I get it when say, Young Adult is applied to cheesy, Teenage drama stories. But Mistborn? Mistborn is dark, and it just happens to include a cheesy teenage love story woven in. The most successful young adult series of the past decade is literally about children being forced to murder each other. Mistborn may be a bit more mature in tone, but "darkness" isn't really a good way to determine if a book is YA or not.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:39
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Ex-Priest Tobin posted:Too juvenile (notwithstanding that this is fantasy lit we're discussing) and too cliched I think about sums it up. It's a spot-on point about the 'Sanderson avalanche' as well. Throughout the novel I was mostly thinking 'yeah, this is kind of cliched and by the numbers but the guy does know how to spin a tight plot at the least', but that more or less unravelled in the last few chapters: the pacing was way off. I felt the same way about the Mistborn books when I read them, the first one is pretty cliched and the pacing in the second one sucks. I have since become a big fan of his though, so if you weren't completely sold I'd try something newer of his. He still isn't a particularly "technically adept" author, but he is great at worldbuilding, his magic systems are always fun, and his prose gets better (or at least it stops being awkward).
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Nov 15, 2015 21:00
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Tahirovic posted:Hoid is one of the most interesting characters I've ever seen in a book, probably because we know so little about him. (For me at least) it's because we know so little about him, and at the same time he knows basically everything about what's going on with whatever current world he's on and in the cosmere in general, and rather than be some wise all-knowing being he's just kind of a prick about it.
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Mar 8, 2016 18:47
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I thought he said that wasn't cover art, just something he had an artist draw up to show what the characters look like?
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If you haven't already read them, Emporer's Soul + the two Legion novellas is a great deal for $1.
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