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computer parts posted:One button purchases, nooooo This was the smartest thing Amazon ever did. I buy so many ebooks on impulse that I probably never would have read if I had to go to a bookstore and browse for something. Just one drat click, and its there waiting for me by the time I get off work and walk to the Metro train.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 22:55 |
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# ? Jun 1, 2024 05:59 |
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Hey, I was just reading the blurb about The Emperor's Soul and it said that it was set in the same world as Elantis. I thought it was going to be in a separate world, so looks like I'm going to have to actually read Elantis now. Oh well.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 23:16 |
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This Post Sucks posted:Hey, I was just reading the blurb about The Emperor's Soul and it said that it was set in the same world as Elantis. I thought it was going to be in a separate world, so looks like I'm going to have to actually read Elantis now. Oh well. Same world, but in a far far away lsland nation that has nothing to do with Elantris or its magic system. It might reference a few things from Elantris, but Brandon said it is definately not necessary to have read it first.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 23:18 |
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Yeah, Legion is really good. I wish it was a lot longer.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 23:45 |
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The two one star reviews for Legion on Amazon are hilarious. Do people seriously not do any research and just throw their money at things they know nothing about?
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 02:21 |
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Legion is awesome, this is the second one-off (for now) book of his that I want him to continue. Just devoured the book in 30 minutes on my kindle.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 02:46 |
Xenix posted:The two one star reviews for Legion on Amazon are hilarious. Do people seriously not do any research and just throw their money at things they know nothing about? I really can't stand people that give books one-star ratings based on the price. I know it ultimately doesn't do anything because Amazon is terrible, but I always hit the report button when I see them.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 02:47 |
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I just finished reading Legion and I thought it was relatively good. I'm not much of a fantasy/scifi reader, but the price was right so I took the plunge. Not a bad purchase at all. One thing that really pleased me was Sanderson's depiction of a main character with schizophrenia. I hope he sticks with this characterization of Leeds. As a person with schizophrenia it's extremely rare to see a positive depiction of anyone with this mental illness. All too often schizophrenics are depicted as being violent monsters who will snap in an instant and run amok. As well I appreciate his not depicting it as multiple personalities and even calling out the difference between dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia. He gets it.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 04:52 |
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quote:Stephen Leeds, AKA "Legion," is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 06:25 |
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Man, that was a great read. I was really sad when it was over. I think that's some of his best writing yet.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:15 |
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I just started reading Warbreaker and it's kinda meh, all this Legion talk really doesn't help with it! Started my WoT reread next to it and even that's more interesting than Warbreaker.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 08:42 |
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Finished Legion in one sitting last night, and drat, that was a good book. I was legitimately a bit mad when it ended, because I wanted there to be more of it. Hopefully he'll do more with Stephen Leeds in the future, because the concept was pretty awesome.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 23:27 |
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Dammit, you guys are really making me want to stop my Dresden re-read halfway through Proven Guilty to read this
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 23:30 |
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Legion owns. If this is the new writing ability of Sanderson...the future is very bright indeed. Also, JC is the best.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 23:33 |
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404GoonNotFound posted:Dammit, you guys are really making me want to stop my Dresden re-read halfway through Proven Guilty to read this Do it. It only takes 1-2 hours to read. It's very entertaining. Also, $2.99.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 23:40 |
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Drunk Tomato posted:Do it. It only takes 1-2 hours to read. It's very entertaining. Also, $2.99. Oh, my hardcover copy arrived last Friday. I've just been putting it off because Dresden Reread +
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 23:42 |
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404GoonNotFound posted:Dammit, you guys are really making me want to stop my Dresden re-read halfway through Proven Guilty to read this Do a Sanderson with reading instead of writing. When taking a break from reading a book, read a shorter book!
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 02:35 |
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Democratic Pirate posted:Do a Sanderson with reading instead of writing. When taking a break from reading a book, read a shorter book! See, this guy knows how to speak to my inner nerd. And my outer nerd too.
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 02:46 |
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Just read it on my Kindle, and it was painful. drat that % indicator jumping every time I read a page.
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 03:58 |
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Has there been any word on a Legion audiobook?
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 05:01 |
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Just finished Legion. That was loving cool. It reminded me of the old pulp heroes like Doc Savage or The Shadow. Eccentric millionaire heroes with a group of assistant specialists. Albeit, updated and modernized. It's impressive how Sanderson becomes a noticeably better writer with each story. Legion was even genuinely, unironically funny.
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 07:19 |
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That's basically Sandersons biggest flaw (and it is huge) he just can't be loving funny (and he sometimes has trouble with interpersonal conversations). I loved Way of Kings but I still cringe when I think of the court jester and his "jokes".
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 11:03 |
Affi posted:That's basically Sandersons biggest flaw (and it is huge) he just can't be loving funny (and he sometimes has trouble with interpersonal conversations). I loved Way of Kings but I still cringe when I think of the court jester and his "jokes". In that book Wit is specifically there to make the people of the court uncomfortable, though.
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 13:55 |
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api call girl posted:In that book Wit is specifically there to make the people of the court uncomfortable, though.
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 18:26 |
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Above Our Own posted:He's supposed to be witty. He isn't. I got the impression that he's supposed to be annoying and that only whatshisface finds him funny (because he annoys everyone else).
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 18:38 |
IRQ posted:I got the impression that he's supposed to be annoying and that only whatshisface finds him funny (because he annoys everyone else). Pretty much this. He's Lightsong 2.0.
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 18:49 |
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I think that's just you defending the author by saying he made Wit intentionally unfunny instead of trying to make him clever and failing completely. I don't buy that he meant to do it because all the other "clever" characters are the exact same way.
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 18:59 |
Above Our Own posted:I think that's just you defending the author by saying he made Wit intentionally unfunny instead of trying to make him clever and failing completely. I don't buy that he meant to do it because all the other "clever" characters are the exact same way. No, the others were bad. Shallan? Horrid! But Wit was a humorous hipster, hyper-expanding the horizons of horrible jokes before it was cool!
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 19:15 |
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I laughed several times during Alloy of Law and and The Way of Kings but my humor might be broken. If you go into knowing that the humor is bad it takes on a new light and seems intentional at that point and it starts to get funny. Almost as if the characters are self aware of how bad their jokes are and go with it.
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 19:31 |
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Above Our Own posted:I think that's just you defending the author by saying he made Wit intentionally unfunny instead of trying to make him clever and failing completely. I don't buy that he meant to do it because all the other "clever" characters are the exact same way. I distinctly got the impression Wit was there to annoy all the nobles. He's fairly nice and much less annoying to the main characters who are less snobbish than the rest of the nobles. And remember the rule that anyone can kill the King's Wit, they just have to give up their title (or something similar) - you wouldn't have that rule if the Wit was there to be truly amusing rather than intentionally annoying to everyone.
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# ? Sep 14, 2012 23:43 |
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Above Our Own posted:He's supposed to be witty. He isn't. I got the impression that he gave up on being witty and just decided to see how much of a douchebag he could be before someone killed him
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# ? Sep 15, 2012 02:53 |
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Above Our Own posted:I think that's just you defending the author by saying he made Wit intentionally unfunny instead of trying to make him clever and failing completely. I don't buy that he meant to do it because all the other "clever" characters are the exact same way. I'm not going to defend his dad humor in the other books, and his witty dialog sucks almost all the time (but I think he's getting better), I just think that it specifically was meant to be that one noble guy trolling the other nobles.
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# ? Sep 15, 2012 06:03 |
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Do I remember hearing about Legion getting optioned for TV at some time recently? I hope so. Although if JC is anyone but John Goodman (a la Walter from Big Lebowski) I'll be sorely disappointed.
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# ? Sep 15, 2012 19:50 |
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Jorenko posted:Do I remember hearing about Legion getting optioned for TV at some time recently? I hope so. Although if JC is anyone but John Goodman (a la Walter from Big Lebowski) I'll be sorely disappointed. Alternatively, Ben Browder. The in-joke alone would be worth it.
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# ? Sep 15, 2012 19:59 |
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Jorenko posted:Do I remember hearing about Legion getting optioned for TV at some time recently? I hope so. Although if JC is anyone but John Goodman (a la Walter from Big Lebowski) I'll be sorely disappointed. Brandon tried to sell the concept first, then wrote the story to prove that it could work. Then he sold the rights to Lionsgate. He recently tweeted that he would write a sequel, but probably only when he takes a break and flies somewhere. Good thing that the mega tour for the final WOT book is coming up. Cartoon Man fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Sep 16, 2012 |
# ? Sep 16, 2012 00:19 |
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Gotta wonder how annoyed he is about that TNT show with whatshisname from Will & Grace having nearly the same concept.
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# ? Sep 16, 2012 00:59 |
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Above Our Own posted:I think that's just you defending the author by saying he made Wit intentionally unfunny instead of trying to make him clever and failing completely. I don't buy that he meant to do it because all the other "clever" characters are the exact same way. No, that's like saying GRRM is bad at humor because Patchface isn't funny. Both him and Wit personify the "wise fool" archetype, where someone who normally spouts nonsense has a lot more knowledge of the workings of the world/future than the smart folks. e: VVV Yeah, but my point is that neither character is supposed to be funny. If you want to point at bad Sanderson humor look at Shallan and her pseudo-Victorian humor. VVV computer parts fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Sep 16, 2012 |
# ? Sep 16, 2012 04:46 |
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GRRM is horrible at humor. I think he'd be worse than Sanderson except for the fact that he doesn't really try to write very much humor into his books.
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# ? Sep 16, 2012 04:58 |
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I just finished Elantris, and now I have nothing to read. Dammit, Sanderson, write more books!
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# ? Sep 16, 2012 06:51 |
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Krakkles posted:I just finished Elantris, and now I have nothing to read. Dammit, Sanderson, write more books! He is, the publishers just can't keep up with him.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 02:29 |