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Okay, so I just burned through Way of Kings and Words of Radiance in two weeks and I need more. I just picked up the mistborn series as well. What's the reading order for other Sanderson stuff beyond mistborn?
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Feb 16, 2016 16:15
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Just finished Hero of Ages and I'm impressed with how everything wrapped up neatly. Not entirely sure how I feel about the ending but having read Words of Radiance as well does this mean Sazed could potentially kill Odium since he has the power of two gods? Or has Odium "ate" the gods that he has killed? Now I need to read the rest of his works to see if there's any insight
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Mar 27, 2016 01:24
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Are some of Sanderson's works only available on kindle? I looked on Amazon for the emporer's soul and the mistborn secret history and it was saying kindle only. I hope that's not the case and I'm just bad at the internet
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Apr 19, 2016 02:53
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Welp, I'm through both sets of mistborn books (and finally found secret history), both stormlight archives, emporer's soul, and just finishing up warbreaker probably today. Though that got shelved for the past two days as I burned through the library at mount char, thanks for whoever suggested it in here. I want more!
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May 23, 2016 00:54
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Finally finished Warbreaker. Been putting it off since I had it on my phone and it Ives me a headache to read on it after awhile. Rather pleased with the ending. Between that and Mistborn secret history, I wanna know more about the people who travel between worlds seeking to gain the powers of each. Seems like someone is trying to become as strong as the original God, or at least an approximation of it? And where does Hoid fit in? How many powers or which has he retained? Maybe the fifth heightening? Anyone have any clues as to who the dude is in secret history that eats the magic mist born rock at the well of Ascension is? Sorry if this has been debated before but I avoided reading the spoilers earlier.
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Jun 10, 2016 22:36
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Tunicate posted:hoid is also a feruchemist, according to brandon, which now makes him a lord ruler on top of his other bullshit Guessing that's what he was doing up in Terris in secret history? Also, I read the stormlight books first, so I'm forgetting, where does it confirm that it was Hoid in secret history?
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Jun 11, 2016 19:32
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His Divine Shadow posted:I got the 2nd book in physical form and it's loving huge (think its pretty cool), this one is even longer based on the page count. I think the storm light bricks on my bookshelf actually deter my friends from starting to read Sanderson 
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Aug 18, 2017 14:07
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Isn't it lightsong? Did I read that entire book and remember his name wrong the whole time? 
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Jan 20, 2018 16:44
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Torrannor posted:Unfortunately, the Well of Ascension is the weakest book of the first Mistborn trilogy. I still like it a lot, but it can drag a big in some sections. Hero of Ages on the other hand is a great finisher for the trilogy. He probably could've cut a hundred pages from WoA and still been fine, but I didn't really mind it as much as everyone else in this thread seemed to.
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Jul 20, 2018 11:50
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I thought warbreaker was fantastic and I’m happy we are seeing its characters cross over first. But gimme that twinborn in Roshar please. Or maybe someone with the hands of mourning?
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May 10, 2020 20:29
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Tunicate posted:As far as mistborn series two goes, I'm still a the real Mare died before book 1, and the one Kelsier knew was Paalm impersonating her truther. It makes the arc in series 2 better, especially if the main villain of mistborn overall ends up being Harmony I would not be surprised if Harmony ends up doing horrible poo poo for the greater good.
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May 26, 2020 11:53
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eke out posted:yeah that's basically wax's whole storyline Guess I need to reread those books, it’s been awhile. I don’t remember it being particularly egregious. I was thinking more Cosmere level consequences.
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May 27, 2020 07:35
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Second windrunner is probably Lyn - she seems to be set up as a more major character from the chapters released so far.
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Aug 2, 2020 01:43
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eke out posted:sanderson's been pretty adamant that Alethi need to be played by asian people and that it's not an optional thing (even though hollywood will definitely want to just cast white people) Bollywood would handle this better than Hollywood obviously
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Aug 13, 2020 19:03
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Leng posted:There are so many people rooting for Jasnadin since Oathbringer. Isn’t a Leshwadin situation how you ended up with horneaters? We need more of them.
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Aug 31, 2020 23:15
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aparmenideanmonad posted:Shallan is actually a Kandra, you heard it here first. I feel like there’s gotta be at least one on Roshar by now. Too much going on that Sazed would want to be in the loop about.
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Sep 1, 2020 19:30
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Evil Fluffy posted:While this wouldn't make her any better it'd be hard to make her any worse. I don’t really get the hate for her (though it’s been awhile since I re-read WoK and WoR). I’m just hoping we get a Sanderson style huge pay off to her weird adventures.
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Sep 1, 2020 19:34
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Subvisual Haze posted:Adolin is a wonderful friend and a hilarious doormat to his wife. No, wait the totally different person who inhabits his wife's body and doesn't love him. If Sanderson wasn't a prude I would assume Veil's antics were setting up a cuckolding conflict. lol if you think one of Shallan’s parts (probably veil)isn’t gonna bang someone else by the end of this. These chapters have been great I’m happy I’ve been reading along but gently caress me I need the whole book.
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Sep 25, 2020 19:06
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PlushCow posted:I hadn't read Warbreaker first and I thought the Nightblood stuff was really jarring and out of place in WoR and Oathbringer. It didn't feel in tune with the worldbuilding in the novels up to that point. It still doesn't, but I'm interested to see how far Sanderson goes with it in Rhythm of War. Haven't read the preview chapters in case it's mentioned already. Sanderson writes “hard” magic systems, so you’re gonna know how many breathes for a stickman since it’s sometimes plot relevant.
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Oct 8, 2020 20:16
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Y’all allergic to exactness or something?
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Oct 8, 2020 21:57
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Think we will get the new generation of Radiants as the portraits for the back half?
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Oct 31, 2020 05:37
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Torrannor posted:I hadn't thought of that possibility, but it immediately makes sense. Perhaps Dalinar can reforge the Oathpact? This could give them much needed time, which would explain the time skip between SA 5 and SA 6. There’s been hints of this in the preview chapters. Well, less hinting and more outright musings from main characters in the latest one.
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Nov 1, 2020 01:46
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eke out posted:this is totally random but i saw this That would be my guess. Are they sentient? Or maybe spren like?
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Nov 1, 2020 03:58
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Tunicate posted:yeah second one is a bit of a soggy middle, since the first one is standalone but the second one is mostly building up for book 3 Iirc, the second one was hated more because of not having the third one immediately available to read by some posters. I know I blew through all three in short order and while the second is the weakest I still thoroughly enjoyed them all.
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Nov 2, 2020 22:51
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Leng posted:And here I thought people hated the second one because of the love triangle. The pacing also slows down a lot more just because of the nature of the plot. Personally I enjoyed seeing Elend come into his own. I mean yeah that part was a bit ham handed but I guess it didn’t really bother me much.
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Nov 2, 2020 23:20
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Mordiceius posted:So someone just tell me. Elend Venture - is he cool or does he suck? Read and find out 
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Nov 5, 2020 09:14
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Mordiceius posted:I appreciate it. I attribute it more to Sanderson’s writing not being tricky for the sake of being tricky. People don’t just immediately change personalities. So when you have a journal where two characters are featured - one humble, one who believes in superiority/domination/extermination, there are only so many conclusion to draw. Have no fear, there are in fact a good number of surprises that Sanderson does a good job of hiding deep in the text. There are passages in book 1 that won’t reveal their relevance until the back half of book 3. Also, fuuuuuuck I need Dawnshard now!!!
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Nov 7, 2020 02:38
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Dawnshard comes out on amazon on the 10th for anyone else who missed the Kickstarter and has not been mashing f5 on amazon like I have.
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Nov 8, 2020 20:24
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Walh Hara posted:It's completely insane that it's so much easier to get a DRM free ebook via I’m just gonna wait. I’m off Tuesday/Wednesday anyway.
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Nov 8, 2020 22:18
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than through legal means. I'll buy the book once I can get it legally, but it's pretty stupid that I can't do that yet.
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HOLY poo poo HOLY poo poo A lot I have to parse but just finished Rhythm Of War. Woo, looking forward to reading everyone else’s thoughts and posting some of my own tomorrow.
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Nov 20, 2020 05:04
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RoW spoilers: -Glad to see some progress on the mental health of kaladin and shallan -setting up Ishar and Taravangian as the big bads next book seems cool -who the gently caress is “El?” Maybe...zombie elhokar? -end of book 5 prediction: Dalinar gets smoked in a duel by either Nale or this mysterious El dude, setting up a cosmere wide war as Taravangian tries to “save them all” -unstable szeth continues to accidentally deus ex machine the main plot is hilarious -maybe radiant adolin next book? When dalinar falls? More thoughts later after work
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Nov 20, 2020 20:51
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big mean giraffe posted:Yeah we don't really know anything about him yet, but he must be someone important if they let him kill the pursuer like that. I expect him to be involved in book 5 a lot I kind of expected the Oh and I thought Moash inherited the pursuer title, not this new guy El. They said something about giving it to a human so I figured Moash.
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Nov 20, 2020 23:17
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RoW I am more than a little surprised at the disparity among which characters everyone likes. I went back and skimmed through some stuff after putting the book down for a couple days. There’s a decent amount of bloat but outside of trimming up navani/kaladin under siege in the tower, it all kind of needs to be there. Shallan has been my least favorite character up until now, but I feel like she was way more entertaining in RoW and we finally had some progress. I don’t get the hate for Adolin. He’s one of the most interesting characters in the whole series. Anyway, what’s the deal with Renarin? I really, really want more of his scheming. Where the gently caress did a Vasher go? How long until I tell my friends that a talking sword is one of my favorite parts of the cosmere?
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Nov 23, 2020 18:30
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