|
Dramatika posted:http://brandonsanderson.com/blog/972/Suvudu-Cage-Match-Vin-vs.-Zeddicus-Zul-Zorander Haha, that's pretty great. I still love Brandon's description of what he thought Harry Dresden would've done in last year's Suvudu match: quote:"Harry Dresden decides this is really all too much work, and wanders off to get himself something to drink. He gets beaten up seventeen times on his way, but saves two orphanages."
|
#
?
Mar 23, 2011 20:17
|
|
|
|
| # ? Mar 25, 2023 04:30 |
|
|
Dramatika posted:http://brandonsanderson.com/blog/972/Suvudu-Cage-Match-Vin-vs.-Zeddicus-Zul-Zorander I think... I think I would go gay for Brandon Sanderson. Fortunately he's not down with that, so instead I will just buy poo poo from him.
|
|
#
?
Mar 23, 2011 21:44
|
|
|
Brandon Sanderson is my favorite author and poo poo like that is the reason why. It's not just that he writes good books. He's just a cool dude.  It's a shame he hasn't done any events anywhere near here since I discovered this fact. I'd love to go to a signing of his or something.
|
|
#
?
Mar 23, 2011 21:54
|
|
|
Lzn64 posted:Brandon Sanderson is my favorite author and poo poo like that is the reason why. It's not just that he writes good books. He's just a cool dude. I love the little quip about Wizardy's First Rule instead of Wizard's First Rule. I bet he is a really fun guy to hang out with too.
|
|
#
?
Mar 23, 2011 23:21
|
|
|
Have I already posted in this thread that I loving LOVED TWoK? MAN I am salivating for the next one. Mistborn was pretty inconstant, with parts being loving awesome, and other parts being a chore with plastic characters, but TWoK is just a solid-rear end book. Other than Kelsier I mean Kaladin being just a little too capable of rallying no matter how many times he's beaten down, I loved every last word. Unnnnnfff just leavin a little thread jizz in here.
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2011 03:46
|
|
|
wellwhoopdedooo posted:Other than Kelsier I mean Kaladin being just a little too capable of rallying no matter how many times he's beaten down, I loved every last word. I just remembered why Kaladin seemed so drat familiar. Kaladim is the dwarf city in Everquest 1. I killed so many loving dwarfs.
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2011 03:52
|
|
|
Dramatika posted:http://brandonsanderson.com/blog/972/Suvudu-Cage-Match-Vin-vs.-Zeddicus-Zul-Zorander "COMMUNISTS!!!" That's fantastic reading. Much better than the one on the suvudu site. IRQ posted:I just remembered why Kaladin seemed so drat familiar. Holy poo poo I didn't even think of that. I played way to much Everquest, but didn't spend much time in Kaladim (wasn't that on the continent no one went too?).
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2011 04:17
|
|
|
I just read it as Kaladin, who was strongly principled, would fight for the weak, was connected to warriors battling in massive plate armour, and who would party with Karbarian, Kleric, Kizard, Kard and Kogue to venture into kungeons to fight kragons.
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2011 05:22
|
|
|
subx posted:Holy poo poo I didn't even think of that. I played way to much Everquest, but didn't spend much time in Kaladim (wasn't that on the continent no one went too?). Yeah but that meant that it was usually deserted. I was best buds with a necromancer as a mage (anyone who knows the game will understand) so we could just sit around the dwarf city and murder the guards for decent exp and good money off their weapons. e: derail? I would bet money Sanderson played EQ too so probably not.
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2011 06:01
|
|
|
Dramatika posted:http://brandonsanderson.com/blog/972/Suvudu-Cage-Match-Vin-vs.-Zeddicus-Zul-Zorander I think the GRRM thread is ruining me, but I honestly thought (given Goodkind) that Vin would at some point almost be sexually assaulted.
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2011 16:19
|
|
|
I sometimes read the bad thread even though I only read the first third of A Game of Thrones. It's pretty awesome. I think I'm going to give ASOIAF another shot after I finish with Shadows of the Apt. It's between that and either reading Mieville - The Scar, or getting started on Scott Lynch. I have too many unread books on my shelf.
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2011 16:26
|
|
|
Well, there's certainly no rush to get through ASoIaF--GRRM is the polar opposite of Sanderson in that he seems to hate writing and consequently will never finish the series.
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2011 16:48
|
|
|
Dramatika posted:I sometimes read the bad thread even though I only read the first third of A Game of Thrones. It's pretty awesome. If you haven't read any Mieville before, go for The Scar. The writing can be a little heavy, but the sheer unbridled creativity in it is worth it. (He's also one of the few fantasy authors who'll write something other than a straight white male as the lead. Iron Council particularly is a breath of fresh air in that department) coffeetable fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Mar 24, 2011 |
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2011 17:14
|
|
|
Nah, I read Perdido Street Station a little under a year ago, bought Iron Council and The Scar, but was so depressed upon finishing PSS (both for plot and personal reasons) that I wasn't up to starting another Mieville book quite yet. PSS was awesome, but my ex and I broke up the day I finished it 
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2011 17:39
|
|
|
That was a pretty awesome shot at Terry Goodkind that miraculously was free of rape and diarrhea spouting chickens.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2011 05:26
|
|
|
BananaNutkins posted:That was a pretty awesome shot at Terry Goodkind that miraculously was free of rape and diarrhea spouting chickens. The best part of it was that before he posted that Zedd was winning the poll by a fair amount; but the day it was posted Vin shot ahead by well over a thousand votes. Cytokinesis fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Mar 25, 2011 |
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2011 10:13
|
|
|
Cytokinesis posted:The best part of it was that before he posted that Zedd was winning the poll by a fair amount; but the day it was posted Vin shot ahead by well over a thousand votes. Mostly nobody even knows it's happening until one of the authors says something.
|
|
#
?
Mar 26, 2011 02:53
|
|
|
IRQ posted:Mostly nobody even knows it's happening until one of the authors says something. And this year's bracket is bananas. If you've read SoIaF, remember the difference between the Hand's Tourney and Joffrey's Tourney? Yes, this year's tournament is a tournament of gnats. There's only one or two decent characters in the lot. Vin, Quick Ben, Perrin Aybara...the reset are almost entirely crap. Mandorallen, really? What's he gonna do, talk Vin during a fight to the death while wearing fifty pounds of metal? Debate honor with Perrin's pack of wolves? Quick Ben would just laugh. Riiiiight. Most of the rest are just as bad.
|
|
#
?
Mar 26, 2011 13:48
|
|
|
ConfusedUs posted:Vin, Quick Ben, Perrin Aybara...the reset are almost entirely crap. Mandorallen, really? What's he gonna do, talk Vin during a fight to the death while wearing fifty pounds of metal? Debate honor with Perrin's pack of wolves? Quick Ben would just laugh. Holy poo poo, I hadn't thought about the Belgariad / Mallorean for years. Am I remembering correctly that the 2nd trilogy not only shamelessly repeats the first, but has some really regressive sexual / social politics? Like wasn't there a scene in which the protagonist is in the capital city of what had heretofore been the evil empire, hanging with the emperor (who it turns out, hey, is a cool dude) and there is some kind of student revolt? Then the emperor has all the students massacred, and the protagonist thinks "what a good idea. Those whiny students thought they wouldn't have to suffer the consequences, but he sure showed them."
|
|
#
?
Mar 26, 2011 14:10
|
|
|
I don't remember a student massacre but the rest is spot on
|
|
#
?
Mar 26, 2011 15:32
|
|
|
Am I also remembering correctly that the Eddings universe contained a whole nation of hook nosed, rat-faced schemers who basically worshiped money and could not resist the urge to haggle about anything and everything? But it was ok, they were with the good guys.
|
|
#
?
Mar 26, 2011 17:28
|
|
|
Bizob posted:Am I also remembering correctly that the Eddings universe contained a whole nation of hook nosed, rat-faced schemers who basically worshiped money and could not resist the urge to haggle about anything and everything? But it was ok, they were with the good guys. Yes. But to be fair, every nationality/race was a stereotype unto itself. You had your nation of Viking berserkers, your race of Jewish spies, your nation of honest farmers, your nation of drug-addict hippies, your society of tribal horse-culture nomads, and so on. Any member of a race without a name could be swapped for any other of the same race. They were just cardboard cutouts of a character. Only the major players in the story got any sort of development at all. I have a soft spot for Eddings' Belgariand and Mallorean books, but even I admit that they were very very cookie-cutter in their execution. ConfusedUs fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Mar 27, 2011 |
|
#
?
Mar 27, 2011 03:01
|
|
|
Bizob posted:Am I also remembering correctly that the Eddings universe contained a whole nation of hook nosed, rat-faced schemers who basically worshiped money and could not resist the urge to haggle about anything and everything? But it was ok, they were with the good guys. It's ok because the best character in the entire series was their prince Also I just finished reading The Way of Kings and now I'm gonna go back to the beginning of this thread and relish the theories and speculations I hope are hidden behind all the spoilertext to help fill the void between now and whenever the next Stormlight book comes out.
|
|
#
?
Mar 27, 2011 03:10
|
|
|
ConfusedUs posted:I have a soft spot for Eddings' Belgariand and Mallorean books, but even I admit that they were very very cookie-cutter in their execution. I have the same soft spot since I read them when I was young, but even worse was hopping over to the Elenium and Tamuli afterwards. Same drat archetypes.
|
|
#
?
Mar 27, 2011 03:12
|
|
|
isk posted:I have the same soft spot since I read them when I was young, but even worse was hopping over to the Elenium and Tamuli afterwards. Same drat archetypes. The Tamuli and Elenium just weren't as good. Archetypes everywhere was not the problem. The problem was that they were boring. I read the Elenium not too awfully long ago and I can barely remember anything about those books.
|
|
#
?
Mar 27, 2011 03:30
|
|
|
Could be worse, could be The Redemption of Althalus. Every horrible cliché and flat character from his previous books given a slightly different name and squeezed into a single book.
|
|
#
?
Mar 27, 2011 15:14
|
|
|
So, after reading Warbreaker a while ago and finding it decent, I decided to check out Mistborn. Aahhhhhhhhhhh those last three chapters, I must be getting very slack, as I saw none of that happening. (Other than the return of the Thank you people in the Dresden Files thread for reminding me about this author. It was worth burning a Sunday to finish this book in one sitting. SystemLogoff fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Apr 3, 2011 |
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2011 22:24
|
|
|
SystemLogoff posted:So, after reading Warbreaker a while ago and finding it decent, I decided to check out Mistborn. Aahhhhhhhhhhh those last three chapters, I must be getting very slack, as I saw none of that happening. (Other than the return of the Are you talking about the end of The Final Empire or Hero of Ages, because with Sanderson's (well done) foreshadowing, you should have a pretty good idea of where everything is going. fake edit: Well, almost. I missedSazed being the Hero of Ages. I'm re-reading the whole trilogy right now, and I love the early scenes with Vin and oerseur after it's actually tensoon. If you know what happens you can really tell there's something off about his personality, but the first time you just shrug it off, like Vin did.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2011 01:02
|
|
|
senae posted:I missedSazed being the Hero of Ages. I didn't quite catch it, but I towards the end I noticed that the chapter bumps from Hero were pretty similar to Sazed's speaking style.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2011 02:33
|
|
|
Mahlertov Cocktail posted:I didn't quite catch it, but I towards the end I noticed that the chapter bumps from Hero were pretty similar to Sazed's speaking style. It's even better when you listen to the audiobook because the guy reads all the Hero of Ages bits literally in Sazed's voice.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2011 03:33
|
|
|
How are the audiobook versions of the books?
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2011 03:37
|
|
|
I enjoyed them quite a bit. Michael Kramer did a great job and I loved his voices for pretty much all the characters. Even though he sort of did give Elend Kelsier's voice. it's not like Kelsier was going to be needing it anymore by the time Elend becomes a major character
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2011 03:41
|
|
|
Lzn64 posted:I enjoyed them quite a bit. Michael Kramer did a great job and I loved his voices for pretty much all the characters. Even though he sort of did give Elend Kelsier's voice. it's not like Kelsier was going to be needing it anymore by the time Elend becomes a major character Haha, true. I might grab them at some point for when I have a long drive--my favorite environment for audiobooks, since you can sometimes just listen to them straight through, depending on the length of the book.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2011 03:43
|
|
|
senae posted:Are you talking about the end of The Final Empire or Hero of Ages, because with Sanderson's (well done) foreshadowing, you should have a pretty good idea of where everything is going. fake edit: Well, almost. I missedSazed being the Hero of Ages. I was talking about The Final Empire, although I just spoiled myself because I quoted you. Woops. This is why I should not post as soon as I wake up. I've just started the second book (At Part Two) and I'm starting to worry about characters dieing.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2011 12:11
|
|
|
SystemLogoff posted:I was talking about The Final Empire, although I just spoiled myself because I quoted you. Woops. This is why I should not post as soon as I wake up. I've just started the second book (At Part Two) and I'm starting to worry about characters dieing. Book two is the weakest of the three in my opinion, you'll feel that it drags a bit, but since there's no waiting for book 3, it's not too big of a deal.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2011 14:00
|
|
|
Lzn64 posted:I enjoyed them quite a bit. Michael Kramer did a great job and I loved his voices for pretty much all the characters. Even though he sort of did give Elend Kelsier's voice. it's not like Kelsier was going to be needing it anymore by the time Elend becomes a major character
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2011 11:50
|
|
|
BannedNewbie posted:And the voice he does for Breeze is really amazing, it somehow perfectly captures his personality in every line. Yeah Breeze and Sazed in particular are very well done I think.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2011 19:00
|
|
|
I feel as though I'll be in the minority round these parts, but I like the UK cover of The Alloy of Law much more than the US, goggles be damned. http://brandonsanderson.com/blog/977/UK-Cover-Art-for-THE-ALLOY-OF-LAW
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2011 21:10
|
|
|
Lzn64 posted:Yeah Breeze and Sazed in particular are very well done I think. It's the same guy that does the wheel of time series. I actually listened to all 13 books so far in audio format, I don't think I could have done that without someone as talented as him doing the narration. Edit: God drat I just checked and thats just short of 420 hours of braid tugging in audio format. Clinton1011 fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Apr 5, 2011 |
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2011 21:54
|
|
|
|
| # ? Mar 25, 2023 04:30 |
|
|
Silenced Parrot posted:I feel as though I'll be in the minority round these parts, but I like the UK cover of The Alloy of Law much more than the US, goggles be damned. I like everything about it except for the person that was drawn.
|
|
#
?
Apr 5, 2011 22:27
|
|
