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I just started Elantris yesterday and after about 300 pages, I'm really enjoying it. I don't know why people have been saying it takes a while to get in to? Maybe it's like the Mistborn ones where the middle drags a bit?
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 17:23 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 16:16 |
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This Post Sucks posted:I just started Elantris yesterday and after about 300 pages, I'm really enjoying it. I don't know why people have been saying it takes a while to get in to? Maybe it's like the Mistborn ones where the middle drags a bit? It's because the flashy stuff doesn't happen until the end of the book. If you're the type of person who's entertained by a man struggling with his faith and a guy rebuilding a cursed city (I was) then you should enjoy most of it.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 18:14 |
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Legion is great, I can really see this working as a television series. I just want to see JC walking around with weapons drawn everywhere.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 18:15 |
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Affi posted:Legion is great, I can really see this working as a television series. I just want to see JC walking around with weapons drawn everywhere. It's impossible to not read JC as Adam Baldwin from Firefly.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 18:47 |
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soru posted:It's impossible to not read JC as Adam Baldwin from Firefly. Once again, he's post-crazy John Crichton and I will hear nothing to the contrary
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 18:49 |
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soru posted:It's impossible to not read JC as Adam Baldwin from Firefly. It's funny you say that because I read this book entirely with the cast of Firefly as the different characters.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 18:52 |
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Tobias is so Morgan Freeman.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 19:27 |
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Affi posted:Tobias is so Morgan Freeman. Holy poo poo. This warrants a reread.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 19:48 |
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Jorenko posted:Holy poo poo. This warrants a reread. That works very well with the character as well as steven's references to his comforting voice but I just can't not picture him as everyone's favorite analrapist.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 20:47 |
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Progress!Brandon Sanderson's twitter account posted:Stormlight 2 percentage bar moved from 2% to 4% as I finish another chapter. Goal is to be done by April 2013. We shall see...
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 00:42 |
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gently caress me, I just finished Way of Kings for like the fourth time in 14 months. Stormlight 10 will blow everyones minds as it has Shallan sketch, in detail, how the Shattered Plains is really a huge mosaic of goatse.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:13 |
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I just finished Way of Kings, loved it, but count me in with the "Wit is horrible" crowd. This character is in every Sanderson book (seriously, Elend/Lightsong/Wit are all the same character dropped into different circumstances/life stages) and for me at least it gets more painful to read, not less, with each new series. Good lord is Sanderson good at worldbuilding and providing interesting and believable protagonists, though.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 15:21 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:I just finished Way of Kings, loved it, but count me in with the "Wit is horrible" crowd. This character is in every Sanderson book (seriously, Elend/Lightsong/Wit are all the same character dropped into different circumstances/life stages) and for me at least it gets more painful to read, not less, with each new series. He's actually literally in every book.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 15:24 |
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The thing I hope for is for Wit to get in a duel then absolutely murder the hell out of the other person without even looking to have been trying. Then joke around about where is the other persons come back to that. Also do you think our little spear fighter is going to duel or get back at the person who forced him into slavery. That would be funny, the elite guard with a slave mark accusing the bright lord in front of every one and dueling him. Then he would skewer him through the eye with a spear wearing leather and gems while the Bright lord was in full shard.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 17:32 |
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If you have not read Elantris, and you liked Stormlight, then you must. It's a very slow book that grows on you, then it all falls into place. It also ends at a point that feels fulfilling and empty at the same time. Oh, and don't read it in a day. My spine and eyes are planing to murder me.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 19:30 |
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computer parts posted:He's actually literally in every book. Yeah, I know about Time Lord Hoid. That's not what I meant, of course. I always wonder if there are a bunch of people out there who love the Sanderson Humor Outlet Character or if it's just a bit of authorial self-indulgence. Not that there's anything wrong with that; he's Brandon loving Sanderson after all.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 22:51 |
Eric the Mauve posted:Yeah, I know about Time Lord Hoid. That's not what I meant, of course. I always wonder if there are a bunch of people out there who love the Sanderson Humor Outlet Character or if it's just a bit of authorial self-indulgence. Not that there's anything wrong with that; he's Brandon loving Sanderson after all. There are, in fact, people who enjoy it, and we have spoken up in this thread before.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 23:00 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:Yeah, I know about Time Lord Hoid. That's not what I meant, of course. I always wonder if there are a bunch of people out there who love the Sanderson Humor Outlet Character or if it's just a bit of authorial self-indulgence. Not that there's anything wrong with that; he's Brandon loving Sanderson after all. Dad jokes man, dad jokes.
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 01:26 |
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SystemLogoff posted:If you have not read Elantris, and you liked Stormlight, then you must. It's a very slow book that grows on you, then it all falls into place. It also ends at a point that feels fulfilling and empty at the same time. In about 750 pages in to Elantris and it's had me hooked from the beginning. I'm still maintaining the worst Sanderson build up are the WoT books. I started a re-read so I could read the Sanderson stuff (I'd only read about the first 5 beforehand anyhow) and now I'm stuck on book 6. Ugh.
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 21:29 |
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The bookstore in Freiburg has all of the Sanderson books in German. The cover for The Way of Kings (Der Weg der Könige) is at least as gorgeous as the Whelan cover. I wish I had infinite money for books.
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 21:36 |
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:The bookstore in Freiburg has all of the Sanderson books in German. The cover for The Way of Kings (Der Weg der Könige) is at least as gorgeous as the Whelan cover. I wish I had infinite money for books. I spent close to $50 getting the UK paperback versions of the Mistborn books cause they were so much better than the American versions.
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 21:40 |
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I just realized that once I finish Legion, I've completely demolished my backlog of fantasy novels, and Abercrombie's next book doesn't come out until mid-October. Argh. I finished Warbreaker about an hour ago. I really can't get enough of Sanderson's avalanches. I absolutely loved the last few Lightsong chapters, with dramatic realizations, a poorly-planned rescue, and deus-ex-Lightsong.
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# ? Sep 20, 2012 01:49 |
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Aggro posted:dramatic realizations, a poorly-planned rescue, and deus-ex-Lightsong. I'm in the same spot. I actually tweeted Brandon to ask him what the hell I should read now, Krakkles fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Sep 20, 2012 |
# ? Sep 20, 2012 07:14 |
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Aggro posted:I just realized that once I finish Legion, I've completely demolished my backlog of fantasy novels, and Abercrombie's next book doesn't come out until mid-October. Argh. Have you read Raven's Shadow Book One: Blood Song (Raven's Shadow) by Anthony Ryan? Great first time book by an author who self published through Amazon. Only 3 bucks on the kindle. Now granted, I'm only about 2/3rds of the way through it but I'm really enjoying it.
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# ? Sep 20, 2012 14:52 |
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Yep, I read that right before Warbreaker. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it reminds me why jumping into a new series totally sucks. I want more, but it'll be years before anything else comes out. Blood Song has a very similar premise to The Name of the Wind, except Ryan doesn't include any author wish-fulfillment sex goddess adventures. The novel also has some of the most well-written fight scenes I've ever seen in fantasy.
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# ? Sep 20, 2012 17:34 |
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Is the 4th Alcatraz book the last one in the series? Because the ending left a lot of things unresolved. Sanderson!
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# ? Sep 23, 2012 01:16 |
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Odette posted:Is the 4th Alcatraz book the last one in the series? Because the ending left a lot of things unresolved. He was only contracted to do 4 I think, but he had plans for seven. He might renew the contract with Scholastic for the rest, I'm not sure.
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# ? Sep 23, 2012 02:17 |
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I haven't actually even touched Alcatraz yet - is it worth reading at all? I usually can't stand YA.
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# ? Sep 23, 2012 03:44 |
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Its a mixed bag. A lot of it is pure Sanderson lunacy and whimsy. Beneath that is a decent Sanderson magic system and world. They are short and probably not his best writing. I found them to be cute. Kind of.
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# ? Sep 23, 2012 03:47 |
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They're kind of trashy but I like them.
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# ? Sep 23, 2012 06:53 |
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Thought some people might appreciate this ... Brandon Sanderson is going to be answering questions posted to a fan site, and posted up the link for people to ask questions. I believe this DOES require registration, as it appears to be rather standard forum software, but in any case, go here. They do stipulate in the OP no Wheel of Time questions.
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 20:52 |
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The Rithmatist will be coming out in May of 2013. This is Brandon's YA novel that he's been sitting on for a while. Here's the cover. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/09/cover-revealed-for-brandon-sandersons-new-book-the-rithmatist quote:The Rithmatist is an epic fantasy set in an alternate version of our world—a world in which life in the American Isles is threatened by the attacks of mysterious creatures known as Wild Chalklings. Chalklings are two-dimensional drawings that can be infused with life by Rithmatists and it is the job of the Rithmatists to keep the Wild Chalkings at bay.
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 11:32 |
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Man, Brandon Sanderson by The Rithmatist had a nice cover. Is that a steampunk horse?
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 15:45 |
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Somebody posted in the comments of that article that Brandon has bought back the rights to the Alcatraz series. If true, thats really cool and means more Alcatraz books in the future. When he sold the rights to Scholastic, he wasn't that well known and had only published Elantris. (I think.)
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:17 |
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So I finally finished the first Mistborn book (started June, wandered off because the start bores me) today and it is rather amazing. Few questions though. You can spoil the other two books as you like, I am already too spoiled and would likely forget it anyway. 1) The word 'kandra' appeared on Chapter 19, few chapters before the term is properly introduced and explained. Is this an error? If it's a hint to the true nature of Renoux, it's kind of a weird hint. 2) I don't quite understand how Lord Ruler get younger. If I'm reading it right, Feruchemists can store an attribute, say [age], into a metal. Allomancers, on the other hand, can obtain an attribute from a metal. In the combination of Feruchemy and Allomancy, the metal that is burned would generate a great amount of the stored attribute? As such Lord Ruler have a lot of [age] and thus can constantly becoming younger? Am I getting this right? 3) Kelsier is like the most fun character in the book. He's just the right combination of dick and nice and he makes the other characters better. Nobody in the crew is like him. All the crew is too rational, too realistic. How depressing is the next two books? Or is there any Kelsier-like characters worth a drat in it? Unrelated to Mistborn: How many words were Legion? It felt absurdly short to me, like a chapter in an 'epic fanfic'.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 03:54 |
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When you can use the same metal by burning it allomantically or storing it feruchemically the powers are multiplied. The Lord Ruler could burn gold to generate health/heal himself, and could make himself sick to store health for later healing in his goldminds. So instead of just making himself sick for a while while storing his natural health (He does this too), he can burn gold at the same time to make even more health than he started with and thus get a net gain which he can easily use to heal with. So with the getting younger thing, decrepitude due to age is expressed as a decreased health which he rectifies with gold. Burning a metalmind doesn't do much of any good, just wastes whatever is stored in the metalmind. Victorkm fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Sep 28, 2012 |
# ? Sep 28, 2012 04:03 |
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Burning the metal mind has to restore what's in it. Otherwise the system doesn't work. Vin notes when she tries some of Sazed's metal that there IS power there, just that she can't tap it. From the Mistborn Wiki: By burning a metal containing a stored attribute, such as burning atium which contains youth, the user effectively makes a profit on the attribute stored in the metal due to allomancy's property of drawing power from the metal. Thus the user gains more of the attribute than invested. An example of this is the Lord Ruler's immortality which is achieved through periods spent aged, storing youth in atium which he later burns and stores in the main atium minds which sustain him. Note that the attribute stored must have orignated from the user, hence Vin's inability to use the power in Sazed's pewtermind. The term for a Twinborn who can burn the same metal as their Feruchemical ability uses is called a Compounder. A Compounder can store that metal, and tap it later at tenfold the power of a normal Misting.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 05:03 |
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toanoradian posted:1) The word 'kandra' appeared on Chapter 19, few chapters before the term is properly introduced and explained. Is this an error? If it's a hint to the true nature of Renoux, it's kind of a weird hint. I don't remember the context in chapter 19, and I also don't remember when you find this out, but Renoux was killed and replaced by a Kandra before you meet him toanoradian posted:3) Kelsier is like the most fun character in the book. He's just the right combination of dick and nice and he makes the other characters better. Nobody in the crew is like him. All the crew is too rational, too realistic. How depressing is the next two books? Or is there any Kelsier-like characters worth a drat in it? Elend takes his place as main male protagonist and I honestly preferred him as a character. He has an actual growth arc that I don't think Kelsier would have been able to have (as Kelsier was at the end of his character/growth arc when we met him). Really, I can't imagine not getting sick of Kelsier had he survived all three books. Book two stuff (kind of spoilers) Plus, there's the whole "Chuch of the Survivor" thing that is a really big plot point, and the fact that Kelsier as a martyr is way more powerful to the movement than Kelsier as a roguish rebel.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 16:33 |
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Mortanis posted:Burning the metal mind has to restore what's in it. Otherwise the system doesn't work. Vin notes when she tries some of Sazed's metal that there IS power there, just that she can't tap it. I think Sanderson also mentioned somewhere that the process for compounding age isn't perfect. The Lord Ruler needed more and more compounding for the same gain in time as he went along.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 16:48 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 16:16 |
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Here's the Brandon Sanderson WOT panel at Dragoncon, including his reading of the Matt Cauthon chapter. http://outta-this-world.com/2012/09/27/brandon-sanderson-reads-a-sneak-peak-from-a-memory-of-light/
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 16:48 |