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Lzn64 posted:I think Sanderson flat out said in some annotations somewhere that they aren't coming back. At least, Vin, Elend and Kelsier aren't. He *has* said that it's possible for Sazed, Marsh or TenSoon to appear in later books, but I am fairly sure he outright specifically said that Vin, Elend and Kelsier won't be back. Yep. The line in question was referring to the afterlife, which is real in this setting. They're all there and happy.
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Can we mark which book we're spoiling? I'm halfway through my first trek through Sanderson's collected works.
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Feb 4, 2011 23:29
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Jorenko posted:Can we mark which book we're spoiling? I'm halfway through my first trek through Sanderson's collected works. Everything after Velius' post is about Mistborn. Maybe from now on leave the name of the book/series you're talking about unspoiled?
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Feb 5, 2011 00:09
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senae posted:Everything after Velius' post is about Mistborn. Yeah, that would be good; I would love to talk about Mistborn, but I haven't read Way of Kings yet so I didn't mouse over any of those spoilers.
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Feb 5, 2011 04:00
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Here are the latest tweets from Brandon about the new Mistborn book.Brandon Sanderson's Twitter posted:Another week of working on the Alloy of Law revision. I think you guys are going to enjoy this book--very fun. Well we couldn't get A Memory of Light this November, but this should get us through till March.
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Feb 8, 2011 02:27
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Cartoon Man posted:Here are the latest tweets from Brandon about the new Mistborn book. I dunno about you, but it'll get me through, perhaps, an entire day if it's shorter than Mistborn 1 like he says!
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Feb 8, 2011 11:39
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The man is a machine! After I finish reading Savages I think I might go re-read at least the first Mistborn book and read the commentary. Is it best to read a chapter, then read the the commentary or should I read a few chapters before reading commentary? I want to make sure it flows right (if that makes any sense).
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Feb 8, 2011 18:49
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thecallahan posted:The man is a machine! Read the whole thing, then the commentary. I think you can do it book by book, though, I'm pretty sure he avoids spoilering outside books.
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Feb 8, 2011 19:27
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NinjaDebugger posted:Read the whole thing, then the commentary. I think you can do it book by book, though, I'm pretty sure he avoids spoilering outside books. I believe he goes so far as to avoid spoiling future chapters, so you're probably safe to read the commentary concurrently. He mentions his spoiler policy somewhere in the commentary section, so I'd double check to be safe.
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Feb 8, 2011 21:46
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Yeah, but he also includes tagged and blocked (you can reveal them with a little javascript button) spoilers so it might just be better to hold off if you think you won't be able to resist.
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Feb 9, 2011 00:43
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Wells of Ascension is really dragging. I get it, Vin, it's hard to trust and you're only very slowly growing as a person. But, please, let's not spend entire chapters in a dress shop.
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Feb 9, 2011 01:46
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Haraksha posted:Wells of Ascension is really dragging. I get it, Vin, it's hard to trust and you're only very slowly growing as a person. But, please, let's not spend entire chapters in a dress shop. The middle half of Well is drag-tastic. Sanderson acknowledges this in his commentary, in that he tends to build for the "Sanderson Avalanche," sometimes to the point where the middle of his works suffers for it. The first step to overcoming one's problems is to know them! Luckily, the last quarter of the book, the avalanche, is more up to par with Mistborn 1.. And almost the entirety of Hero of Ages is awesome.
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Feb 9, 2011 02:07
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I just don't find Vin to be very interesting. I want to know more about Marsh and Sazed.
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Feb 9, 2011 03:57
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Haraksha posted:I just don't find Vin to be very interesting. I want to know more about Marsh and Sazed. You'll learn a LOT about Sazed in Hero of Ages. Marsh too, but not as much.
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Haraksha posted:I just don't find Vin to be very interesting. I want to know more about Marsh and Sazed. Everyone gets a lot cooler in the last book.
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Well I've read the series already so I don't need to worry about spoilers. And IRQ, I can't quite 100% agree with your statement but it's close!
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thecallahan posted:Well I've read the series already so I don't need to worry about spoilers. And IRQ, I can't quite 100% agree with your statement but it's close! Who do you think doesn't get cooler in Hero?
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Feb 9, 2011 06:01
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:Who do you think doesn't get cooler in Hero? (HoA)Sazed gets better right at the end of course, but he's a tedious, repetitious bore of ridiculous depression for 90% of the book.
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Feb 9, 2011 12:24
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Jorenko posted:(HoA)Sazed gets better right at the end of course, but he's a tedious, repetitious bore of ridiculous depression for 90% of the book. My thoughts exactly. I loved the book, but I wished we got to see more of Ten Soon's people and community.
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Feb 9, 2011 12:54
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Jorenko posted:(HoA)Sazed gets better right at the end of course, but he's a tedious, repetitious bore of ridiculous depression for 90% of the book. Jorenko answered first but that was whom I was thinking about. And I'd up the percentage to about 98%.
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Feb 9, 2011 17:23
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Jorenko posted:(HoA)Sazed gets better right at the end of course, but he's a tedious, repetitious bore of ridiculous depression for 90% of the book. True enough. However, his ascending to godhood at the end and using all of those religions to remake the world totally made up for it for me.
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Regarding the end of the The Hero of Ages A big plot point is that Eland and his army use up all the Atium, depriving Ruin of the ability to gain back his power. However, barely a chapter later Sazed uses the combined power of Ruin and Preservation to remake the world, and the impression I got was that he required the power of both to do so. Am I missing something? Did he only use Preservation?
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Feb 9, 2011 22:48
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In regards to future Mistborn novels (recurring character spoilers?) Sanderson has suggested that Sazed will go insane from having two conflicting shard influences and become evil.
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Feb 9, 2011 22:57
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Saradiart posted:In regards to future Mistborn novels (recurring character spoilers?) Sanderson has suggested that Sazed will go insane from having two conflicting shard influences and become evil. Holy poo poo, that could potentially rule. Hopefully the novella coming out this November will hint towards something like that and set up the next trilogy.
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Thoguh posted:Regarding the end of the The Hero of Ages Atium was Ruin's body, or something like that. He had plenty of influence over the world but he couldn't directly touch it unless he got his body back. At least that's how I remember it.
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Thoguh posted:Regarding the end of the The Hero of Ages Having just finished it, I've got this fresh in my mind: There are three components to each god: mind, spirit, and body. Ruin's body was the atium. At the point of that fight, Vin+Mist is 2/3 of a god and Ruin+HisSpirit is 2/3. The other 1/3 of Preservation (his body, I think?) is busy powering allomancy and the atium is, as you say, used up. This means they cancel each other's powers out and neither can act. But if Ruin could get the atium it would be 3/3 vs 2/3 and he could do what he wants. So when Vin headbutts Ruin and they kill eachother, Sazed is able to take the spirit component of each god and become the joint mind of the new, reunited, 4/6 of a god.
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Saradiart posted:In regards to future Mistborn novels (recurring character spoilers?) Sanderson has suggested that Sazed will go insane from having two conflicting shard influences and become evil. It probably fits well with what he's got planned for the wider Shardverse, but I don't really like what that does to the ending of the first Mistborn trilogy, particularly as it basically recapitulates Lord Ruler and Preservation.
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Jorenko posted:Having just finished it, I've got this fresh in my mind: There are three components to each god: mind, spirit, and body. Ruin's body was the atium. At the point of that fight, Vin+Mist is 2/3 of a god and Ruin+HisSpirit is 2/3. The other 1/3 of Preservation (his body, I think?) is busy powering allomancy and the atium is, as you say, used up. This means they cancel each other's powers out and neither can act. But if Ruin could get the atium it would be 3/3 vs 2/3 and he could do what he wants. So when Vin headbutts Ruin and they kill eachother, Sazed is able to take the spirit component of each god and become the joint mind of the new, reunited, 4/6 of a god. IRQ posted:Atium was Ruin's body, or something like that. He had plenty of influence over the world but he couldn't directly touch it unless he got his body back. At least that's how I remember it. Okay, that totally makes sense.
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So, I finally finished my Sandersonathon. Well, except for Alcatraz. Anyone here tried those? How different is the style from his fantasy? Warbreaker was pretty dang good; I'm looking forward to sequels eventually.
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Feb 16, 2011 12:57
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Alcatraz is good if you want a random insane version of Harry Potter. Like most Sanderson novels, things do come together towards the end of each book. The magick/talent system is interesting. Honestly I only reccomend the series if you are a hard core Sanderson fan or have kids. You also may want to get them on the kindle, as the book covers will definately earn you stares from the general public.
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People really need to stop worrying about what others will think of your book covers. gently caress what people think about your reading habits. Most people don't read regularly anyway.
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I just finished Way Of Kings. Fantastic book. I hope we get to see Herdaz or wherever Lopen is from. I want to know if gancho is a Lopen thing or a hilarious cultural thing.
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Feb 18, 2011 10:25
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Just finished the Mistborn Trilogy. God drat was it a lot better than I expected. Will have to read through those notes on Sanderson's website to catch all the little bits I missed.
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Feb 23, 2011 09:51
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Ferrosol posted:Just finished the Mistborn Trilogy. God drat was it a lot better than I expected. Will have to read through those notes on Sanderson's website to catch all the little bits I missed. The second readthru is insane when you realize that he really did start foreshadowing the last chapter of Hero of Ages in the first 100 pages of Mistborn. And yeah, the annotations are awesome. I kinda wish more authors would do something like that.
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I've read the first two Alcatraz books and really liked them. Very metafiction-y and clever. Although I haven't read any of his adult books. I've been reading tons of children's books for a while because I'm working on a children's novel of my own.
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Just finished White Sand, and about to start Aether of Night. It was really good - surprised he wasn't able to get it published. He'll send them to you personally if you go on http://brandonsanderson.com/contact and request them. He's mentioned on reddit and a few other places he's happy to let people read some of his unpublished stuff, as long as they realize that it's not him at his best.
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So, after finding out Brandon was roommates with Ken Jennings and then reading their posts on reddit, I came across this gem:Brandon Sanderson posted:There’s got to be a sitcom pitch in here somewhere. Two semi-famous Mormons, living together, being nerds. Like Big Bang Theory, only with more green Jell-O. Glen Beck could play the evil apartment building owner who keeps trying to come up with crazy schemes to get us kicked out, since our apartment is rent controlled to 1870’s prices as long as a pure descendant of Brigham Young lives in it. Sanderson is awesome. E: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeopardy_champion_ken_jennings_i_will/c1j769x In case people are curious to read the whole thing. Silenced Parrot fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Mar 4, 2011 |
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Silenced Parrot posted:So, after finding out Brandon was roommates with Ken Jennings and then reading their posts on reddit, I came across this gem: hahah that is amazing
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