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it sounds like an inverse isekai, where things keep coming into our world to kill this nerd
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is sanderson prudish or does he just not personally write horny very much? there is a difference
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Taffer posted:Probably a bit of both. I personally like that he doesn't write horny and it's a great contrast to so much scifi/fantasy that has the authors horrible sex fantasies shoved in awkwardly and often. People posting about Wot in this thread all the time is a strong reminder of that. see the distinction i'm trying to draw is whether he would be opposed to it happening at all, which i don't think there's much evidence of, but that's me kind of splitting hairs. dodging writing it out or alluding to it himself is just 'unhorny,' i guess, if he were collaborating and putting the kibosh on other people doing it then we're in legit prude territory but i might also be putting stronger negative connotations on prude than you are
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Aug 4, 2019 07:57
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personally i get really excited when i see a cast full of unknowns and wish it happened more often. you get a bunch of people hungry enough that aren't so established that they've maybe built up a bunch of weird habits and they can really throw themselves into a project
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Aug 14, 2019 21:56
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yeah for all that the game of thrones project went spiralling down a hole it made a lot of careers for people who just didn't exist before it started. especially ned's actor, i think he has a lot of long-running roles with long lives ahead of him
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Aug 14, 2019 22:41
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i like the character of lift but the writing style shift when she's the viewpoint is grating to me it might have to do with me experiencing her first through an audiobook and the narrator took on a kind of... breathless tone with her and i got real tired of hearing the word "awesome" being drawn out real quick
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Sep 16, 2019 21:27
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dalinar's aura as a protagonist reinforced the weakened walls
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Sep 26, 2019 16:19
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warbreaker is cool it is slow, though, until it becomes extremely fast
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Dec 16, 2019 18:09
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i'd say it's best taken in as an audiobook while you're doing something else
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Dec 16, 2019 18:31
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that chart sucks i'm a "read it all" guy but i see no reason to worry about which series you start with aside from it being a good idea to do warbreaker early my particular mania would simply suggest starting with elantris and going forward in release order
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Dec 16, 2019 21:52
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jesus, putting hubbard and moorcock in the same breath like that?
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Dec 31, 2019 20:11
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NikkolasKing posted:I'm a nerd who likes to talk Power Levels. Are the Shards the strongest beings in the Cosmere? Harmony is afraid of whatever that red stuff is after all and he has two Shards. iirc, taking both shards almost atomized sazed and it only worked because the shards were diametrically opposed so they were able to balance out. he might only be able to also take up whatever his diametric opposite is which would probably fundamentally change him as well harmony might be able to grab more shards explicitly because of the aspect of harmony now?? but that's wild conjecture based on nothing
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Mar 6, 2020 01:56
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fully autonomous luxury space harmony
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Mar 6, 2020 09:18
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It's surprisingly easy to subtly remind a reader of things you've already established. People's memories are better than they think, there's just a lot in deep recall that requires some prompting.
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Mar 9, 2020 08:37
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Holy poo poo there is a difference between "smart" and "educated"
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Apr 3, 2020 05:51
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I liked it but Warbreaker's definitely one I can't actually bring myself to defend. It's really early Sanderson and I think the last thing he wrote before hitting Way of Kings, which was such a big undertaking you could watch Sanderson getting better at writing as he went through the book.
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Apr 25, 2020 21:10
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elantris is at least kind of interesting in that it wasn't until i actually finished the book that i realized it took place in like... i think only three different locations and nothing actually happened
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Apr 26, 2020 02:27
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yeah elantris was just weird as hell. warbreaker had some interesting stuff going on but it wasn't as vivid, which is ironic when you think about how much colors came into play
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Apr 26, 2020 03:11
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warbreaker's system STINKS of a magic system someone came up with in the back of their notebook in high school, having put together several similar things in the backs of my notebooks in high school. everything all numbered out and listed out
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Apr 27, 2020 15:39
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creating nightblood required someone with 20k breaths to use 1,000 and it's still pretty stupid i think you'd have to leave a lot of breaths lying around in something to risk it self-actualizing independently
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Apr 28, 2020 19:28
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i feel like none of that really exists in text which at least means he's reworking the system to have some more freedom
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Apr 29, 2020 03:19
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literally any book coming out causes that
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it always cracks me up to think about how i started listening to some writing excuses because of howard tayler and only later went 'well this sanderson guy's pretty sharp what's he about'
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