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He seems to have figured out how to achieve Sanderson's writing speed at least, if he can churn out 600 page novels in nine months like that. I hadn't even bothered looking up the title for this one yet, so thanks for the heads up!
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Mygna posted:He seems to have figured out how to achieve Sanderson's writing speed at least, if he can churn out 600 page novels in nine months like that. I hadn't even bothered looking up the title for this one yet, so thanks for the heads up!
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Feb 10, 2015 00:49
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Cicero posted:Yeah, he's also done a bunch of short stories and a couple novellas set in the same universe. All that in less than 2 years of release time. Probably just a pseudonym that Sanderson is using so he can get more books published...
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Feb 10, 2015 01:36
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Cicero posted:The Autumn Republic (Powder Mage Trilogy Book 3) from noted Sanderclone Brian McClellan comes out tomorrow!
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Mars4523 posted:How is the trilogy? I checked the Tvtropes page for an impression (I know, I know) and apparently one of the (adult, male) main characters is in a relationship with a nineteen year old girl who looks fifteen, which is a bit of a red flag in the "No seriously, the little girl's actually a 700 year old dragon!" sense. (disclaimer: I've only read the first one) She's also a Magical Savage, mute, with a blood debt to him. And is the most prominent female character in the book. Serious Bechdel fail, there. I liked the magic system and most of the side characters, though. I'm thinking of picking up the sequels if #2 goes on sale for #3's release...
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Feb 10, 2015 02:22
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Cicero posted:The Autumn Republic (Powder Mage Trilogy Book 3) from noted Sanderclone Brian McClellan comes out tomorrow! Also the library got in firefight! Woo!
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Mars4523 posted:How is the trilogy? I checked the Tvtropes page for an impression (I know, I know) and apparently one of the (adult, male) main characters is in a relationship with a nineteen year old girl who looks fifteen, which is a bit of a red flag in the "No seriously, the little girl's actually a 700 year old dragon!" sense. The age difference between them is only three years if I remember right. The male character, Taniel, when we're in his head, thinks of himself as a mature worldy-wise hero, but his actions are those of a hot-headed young guy barely out of his teens who acts without thinking and has a (well-meaning) superiority complex because of his special powers. None of the other characters ever really comment on Pole's age, and I think that her being much older than Taniel thinks she is is meant to be a jab against him - he thinks he's all special and grown up and she's just a kid because he has an over-inflated sense of his own maturity. I don't know anything about McClellan outside of this series though, so I could be wrong. It's kind of like the debate over whether Sanderson's characters are deliberately meant to be unfunny or not, just with creepier potential implications. 
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Feb 10, 2015 12:42
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Are you trying to imply Lightsong isn't funny?
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Feb 10, 2015 13:27
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I'm pretty sure David Charleston from the Reckoners is supposed to be unfunny, since he's called out on his lovely jokes in book 2.
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Feb 10, 2015 17:02
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Tahirovic posted:Are you trying to imply Lightsong isn't funny? I think he's serious. Dead as a squirrel serious.
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Feb 10, 2015 18:25
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Tahirovic posted:Are you trying to imply Lightsong isn't funny? Lightsong is the funniest character Sanderson ever wrote and I hope he writes more like him. He was just such a casual rear end in a top hat that everyone around him played the perfect straight man.
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Hopeford posted:Lightsong is the funniest character Sanderson ever wrote and I hope he writes more like him. He was just such a casual rear end in a top hat that everyone around him played the perfect straight man. Agreed. The question is whether Sanderson wrote him believing the jokes to be actually funny which isn't where the humor comes from, or if it's one step back with a character that cracks off color non stop jokes in every situation like smearing a giant "gently caress you" middle finger in everyone's face all the time, which is hilarious given context of supposedly being a god. I'm sure he's capable of writing the latter these days, as he's gotten better about the subtle stuff, but Warbreaker is ancient and I'm thinking early Sanderson literally just thought LIghtsong jokes were funny. Still love Lightsong to no end though.
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Lightsong was easily the best thing about an otherwise entirely forgettable work. I guess Vasher/Nightblood was pretty cool too, and extra so in hindsight because of their appearance in Stormlight. The world and story of Warbreaker were weak as hell though.
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Mortanis posted:Agreed. The question is whether Sanderson wrote him believing the jokes to be actually funny which isn't where the humor comes from, or if it's one step back with a character that cracks off color non stop jokes in every situation like smearing a giant "gently caress you" middle finger in everyone's face all the time, which is hilarious given context of supposedly being a god. I'm sure he's capable of writing the latter these days, as he's gotten better about the subtle stuff, but Warbreaker is ancient and I'm thinking early Sanderson literally just thought LIghtsong jokes were funny. Warbreaker was written and revised live, so Brandon tossed up a blog post asking if the jokes were working or not. Virtually everyone on his forums said they thought it was funny, but that's sorta a biased group Tunicate fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Feb 11, 2015 |
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Feb 11, 2015 00:47
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Came to see if anyone was discussing Winter Dragon and found some of the wackiest theories about the Reckoners instead.
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Maytag posted:Came to see if anyone was discussing Winter Dragon and found some of the wackiest theories about the Reckoners instead. It has been/was being talked about in the WoT thread.
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Damo posted:Lightsong was easily the best thing about an otherwise entirely forgettable work. Would you please point out the spoiler? I miss a lot of these things.
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Smiling Knight posted:Would you please point out the spoiler? I miss a lot of these things. Words of Radiance: Szeth is given a magic talking sword that wants to destroy evil. Sound like any other magic talking swords you know of?
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Smiling Knight posted:Would you please point out the spoiler? I miss a lot of these things. Also: The weapons master that Kaladin works with has a lot of color-themed idioms.
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I was wondering what the deal was with that stuff, as it seemed completely out of left field, even more than the fact that Szeth is somehow brought back when the series kept hammering away at how a shardblade cutting the spinal cord is instant death. Kaladin healing his arm's injury kinda throws all that to the wind though since it's probably possible to revive people with a shitload of Stormlight right after they're injured. Barring any brain damage caused by lack of oxygen and such. I figured the talking sword was just a shardblade that wasn't from an oathbreaker, and thus wasn't just a spren stuck in some horrific situation screaming in pain like the other shardblades are. Given the Stormfather's demands to Dalinar it seems that the blades people fight over are just eternally tortured/suffering spren left behind by the Knights abandoning their duty long ago anyways.
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The Ninth Layer posted:Also: and knows a complicated game involving throwing stones
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Evil Fluffy posted:I was wondering what the deal was with that stuff, as it seemed completely out of left field, even more than the fact that Szeth is somehow brought back when the series kept hammering away at how a shardblade cutting the spinal cord is instant death. Kaladin healing his arm's injury kinda throws all that to the wind though since it's probably possible to revive people with a shitload of Stormlight right after they're injured. Barring any brain damage caused by lack of oxygen and such. According to Sanderson, Nightblood is essentially the same sort of entity as a Shardblade, created through different means and imbued with a twisted personality - all the magic in his cosmere books are different manifestations of the same fundamental thing, so they can overlap and interact. For example, Stormlight carries the same sort of fundamental energy as Breath, just shaped into a different sort of form, so people from the Warbreaker world who need Breath to survive (including Nightblood) have a considerably easier time on Roshar.
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So I just finished Elantris. I found it fine but dull. It had it's moments but for the most part I just plodded along. Certainly I can cut him some slack because it's his first published novel. I'm also not sure if it suffered because I listened to the audiobook and it had a lot of made up words and names, as well as being my first audiobook experience (I mainly listen to podcasts). I really enjoyed the Mistborn trilogy and the steampunk spinoff though. So where do I go from here? Jump into Stomrlight Archive? I kind of want to "save it" so maybe something else first?
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Xtanstic posted:So I just finished Elantris. I found it fine but dull. It had it's moments but for the most part I just plodded along. Certainly I can cut him some slack because it's his first published novel. I'm also not sure if it suffered because I listened to the audiobook and it had a lot of made up words and names, as well as being my first audiobook experience (I mainly listen to podcasts). I really enjoyed the Mistborn trilogy and the steampunk spinoff though. So where do I go from here? Jump into Stomrlight Archive? I kind of want to "save it" so maybe something else first? Warbreaker is his other "early" novel. It's worth a read if you're a completionist. Otherwise, pick up these three: Way of Kings (Stormlight 1) Words of Radiance (Stormlight 2) The Emperor's Soul (novella) Emperor's Soul is probably his best work. It's short, sweet, and very very good. Stormlight just owns in general.
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Xtanstic posted:So I just finished Elantris. I found it fine but dull. It had it's moments but for the most part I just plodded along. Certainly I can cut him some slack because it's his first published novel. I'm also not sure if it suffered because I listened to the audiobook and it had a lot of made up words and names, as well as being my first audiobook experience (I mainly listen to podcasts). I really enjoyed the Mistborn trilogy and the steampunk spinoff though. So where do I go from here? Jump into Stomrlight Archive? I kind of want to "save it" so maybe something else first? You can get the Warbreaker e-book for free from his site, and the book is a nice read, though many people feel that his humor is at his worst in it. Reading Warbreaker before Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archive #2) is a good idea since a few characters from the former have a cameo in the latter. It's not obvious right now how important they are, but at least to me it seems as if the Stormligh Archive series will be the first time that stuff from other Cosmere books will be important to the story.
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Xtanstic posted:So I just finished Elantris. I found it fine but dull. It had it's moments but for the most part I just plodded along. Certainly I can cut him some slack because it's his first published novel.
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ConfusedUs posted:Warbreaker is his other "early" novel. It's worth a read if you're a completionist. It's worth noting that mistborn was written before Warbreaker.
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Wolpertinger posted:According to Sanderson, Nightblood is essentially the same sort of entity as a Shardblade, created through different means and imbued with a twisted personality - all the magic in his cosmere books are different manifestations of the same fundamental thing, so they can overlap and interact. For example, Stormlight carries the same sort of fundamental energy as Breath, just shaped into a different sort of form, so people from the Warbreaker world who need Breath to survive (including Nightblood) have a considerably easier time on Roshar. Considering the abundance of stormlight, Nightblood is going to be a loving monster on this world. 
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amuayse posted:Any clue what happened to Kal's parents? If Brandon's been reading from the the work in progress. We've had a preview of the prologue already but he cut off before Kaladin made it all the way back into Hearthstone
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amuayse posted:Any clue what happened to Kal's parents? Whatever the most depressing outcome imaginable is.
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socialsecurity posted:Whatever the most depressing outcome imaginable is. This is the only possible answer. Can't wait for another few (hundred) pages of Kal being whiny and depressed. Again. 
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Thyrork posted:Considering the abundance of stormlight, Nightblood is going to be a loving monster on this world. At some point in the series I can almost guarantee that Nightblood will get drawn during a Highstorm and go loving mental, and will probably be used to kill Odium or something very very powerful 
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So, I'm trying not to hit too many black bars, I've started to read Brandon Sanderson, pretty much devoured the Mistborn Trilogy and it's amazing, incredibly addicting, and after it I thought, well it can't really get much better right And then I started reading the Stormlight Archives and  It's absolutely addicting is all I can say, I love it that every single character is so colorful and interesting and everything is shrouded in so many mysteries, the pacing is just perfect.
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theghostpt posted:So, I'm trying not to hit too many black bars, I've started to read Brandon Sanderson, pretty much devoured the Mistborn Trilogy and it's amazing, incredibly addicting, and after it I thought, well it can't really get much better right Its a shame you've not read Warbreaker (i assume), the wham moment at the end of stormlight 2 is pure  'Tho i dont think everyone here feels the same.  Evil Fluffy posted:This is the only possible answer. Can't wait for another few (hundred) pages of Kal being whiny and depressed. Again. Forgot to reply to this earlier, Considering its Sanderson, it could very well turn out that Kal's folks are same as always ... and he still ends up depressed about it. 
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I think that's potentially the most depressing. He hasn't ever been back home, has a slave mark, and kills people full time. And who knows how his parents reacted to their sons going to war?
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Kals dad will be disappointed he isn't in the healing branch of the KR
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Democratic Pirate posted:Kals dad will be disappointed he isn't in the healing branch of the KR He's the stereotypical Asian dad. "Why you not doctor yet?"
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Why not both? Kal returns, tells his parents everything that's happened and his mother blames him for his brother's death while his father is utterly crushed that he's a warrior and not a healer. They have a huge fight and Kal leaves. Then his parents are horribly killed by someone wanting revenge on Kal so he can blame himself for their deaths after having a huge fight where they were both totally disappointed and angry with him.
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