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Taffer posted:Read Stormlight already!!!
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Taffer posted:Read Stormlight already!!!
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Dec 6, 2022 16:44
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Taffer posted:Read Stormlight already!!!
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Dec 6, 2022 16:47
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Just do it
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Dec 6, 2022 16:52
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Read the words, Kaladin.
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Dec 6, 2022 17:00
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Potato Salad posted:Read the words, Kaladin. Whoa, NSFVorinism What's next, showing bare hands?!
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Dec 6, 2022 17:04
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going to be contrary and say don't read Stormlight. No reason, just wanted to be contrary for the fun of it. read stormlight
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Dec 6, 2022 17:05
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Rosalie_A posted:going to be contrary and say don't read Stormlight. She’s right. You don’t have to read it. You could listen to the audiobook instead. TheMadMilkman fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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Dec 6, 2022 19:51
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I actually have all of the stormlight novels/novellas on my audible account. I just need to download and take the 250 hour plunge.
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Dec 6, 2022 19:56
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Potato Salad posted:Read the
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Dec 6, 2022 20:06
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I'm half way through TLM metal so far and am really enjoying it. Wayne's overall journey and development as a character is fantastic and easily steals the show, and his stress over his life being "over" because of how rich is was especially funny.
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Dec 6, 2022 20:16
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TheMadMilkman posted:He’s right. You don’t have to read it. She, but otherwise this.
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Dec 6, 2022 20:21
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I also feel like The Lost Metal is Brandon at his most crass, and I say that in the most excited way. Our boy is growing up. I would never have expected Brandon to openly talk about bondage, how good of a lay someone was, or call someone a bag of dicks (this one made me almost choke while listening to the audio book). It loving rules.
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Dec 6, 2022 20:34
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Mordiceius posted:I also feel like The Lost Metal is Brandon at his most crass, and I say that in the most excited way. Our boy is growing up. I would never have expected Brandon to openly talk about bondage, how good of a lay someone was, or call someone a bag of dicks (this one made me almost choke while listening to the audio book). It loving rules. Wayne and MeLaan was a fantastic pairing in every way. mod edit: someone asked me to add spoiler tags Somebody fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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Dec 6, 2022 20:42
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Dec 6, 2022 20:48
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Don't know if you didn't catch it but this needs spoiler tags
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Dec 6, 2022 20:50
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Mordiceius posted:I actually have all of the stormlight novels/novellas on my audible account. I just need to download and take the 250 hour plunge. Just do what I do and set the playback speed to 1.25x. it gets rid of those pesky breaths between the words
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Dec 6, 2022 21:23
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Missed opportunity forher to call Wanye a fantastic bang instead
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Dec 6, 2022 21:23
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Potato Salad posted:Don't know if you didn't catch it but this needs spoiler tags whoops Tunicate posted:Missed opportunity forher to call Wanye a fantastic bang instead Oh my god
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Dec 6, 2022 21:24
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Rosalie_A posted:She, but otherwise this. My apologies. I edited my post.
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Dec 6, 2022 22:46
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Absolutely read Stormlight, but I always note that I bounced off Way of Kings pretty hard -- I don't think it gets good until Words of Radiance. Too much worldbuilding before we have a reason to care, most of it clunky, and nobody's got their superpowers yet. Tunicate posted:Missed opportunity forher to call Wanye a fantastic bang instead 
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Dec 6, 2022 23:41
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Mordiceius posted:I also feel like The Lost Metal is Brandon at his most crass, and I say that in the most excited way. Our boy is growing up. I would never have expected Brandon to openly talk about bondage, how good of a lay someone was, or call someone a bag of dicks (this one made me almost choke while listening to the audio book). It loving rules. I think I mentioned this previously in the thread, but if you read in release order, you can VERY distinctly trace the man's comfort and maturity level around sex and romance. Elantris (written before he was married) dealt with the topic of sex with the exact grace, knowledge, and familiarity of a twelve-year-old. Warbreaker is a little more direct, has a couple of extremely tame and childish jokes, but still tiptoes. I think the same is true of alcohol - the way he writes the beer scene in TLM feels like a regular human person wrote it, instead of treating booze like a carefully-categorized, mysterious science-fiction substance like in Stormlight.
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Mordiceius posted:I actually have all of the stormlight novels/novellas on my audible account. I just need to download and take the 250 hour plunge. Just quit your job - free time galore!
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Dec 7, 2022 09:38
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CapnAndy posted:Absolutely read Stormlight, but I always note that I bounced off Way of Kings pretty hard -- I don't think it gets good until Words of Radiance. Too much worldbuilding before we have a reason to care, most of it clunky, and nobody's got their superpowers yet. I liked way of kings because just because nobody had any superpowers, they where used so sparingly and things looked so serious and dangerous when powers where in play. The first book to me feels like the first book of WoT, much more serious in tone compared to the latter books
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His Divine Shadow posted:I liked way of kings because just because nobody had any superpowers, they where used so sparingly and things looked so serious and dangerous when powers where in play. The first book to me feels like the first book of WoT, much more serious in tone compared to the latter books I get where you're coming from, although I think your choice of words is unfortunate. Stormlight Archive and Wheel of Time spoilers: So of course Way of Kings and Eye of the World are more grounded, "realistic". But saying the later books in WoT and SA are "less serious in tone", when we have Rand with one of the most gripping descents into madness I've ever read, or Kaladin and Shallan clearly suffering from tremendous psychological issues somehow doesn't sound right to me. Of course there are extensive magic powers in a Sanderson book. But Roshar as an "alien" environment works so well, I wonder if there's some kind of... alternative history sci-fi? So it's set on another world where things are noticeably different from Earth, yet the society is "only" a medieval human society without any magic/supernatural powers?
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For me it's more like all those things you mentioned are lessened to some degree for me because of the increasingly fantastical context in which it occurs. The more it happens the more so it becomes. The books had a distinctly different feel in the start when magic was rare and hardly ever used except when things get really "serious". The personal stuff you mentioned, I hadn't even though of it and I've read WoT three times (!). It's like, yes it's serious emotional stuff but it also happens in a very fantastical setting which a lot of the time feels like a mix of an anime and a TV show and it's like everything changes because of it that, in how I feel and interpret what I read in the books. It's hard to explain.
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By the way, I'm still waiting for the explanation what compounding copper actually does, Brandon!
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Torrannor posted:By the way, I'm still waiting for the explanation what compounding copper actually does, Brandon! It’s interesting that he decided to just break compounding for everyone not named marsh
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Dec 7, 2022 13:29
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Calidus posted:It’s interesting that he decided to just break compounding for everyone not named marsh That's not quite what he did. Lost Metal spoilers:You can't make compounders through hemalurgy, but twinborn compounders can still be born the natural way, as evidenced by Miles.
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Torrannor posted:That's not quite what he did. also what you can and can't do through hemalurgy might be radically changing in the very near future, given Autonomy's godmetal alone was enough to allow for significant rule deviations
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So of Sanderson's works, I've only read all of Mistborn and Stormlight. Even then, Mistborn Era 1 is significantly more brutal than Era 2. As I noted earlier, Era 1 does not shy away from rampant, unambiguous descriptions of violence and sexual violence. Is this just a product of the times? Sanderson appealing to the Fantasy market of the 2000s and maybe stepping outside his comfort zone? Or are other works of his similarly non-sanitized in these areas?
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Dec 7, 2022 16:26
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Lost Metal question at the end of Bands of Mourning, they mention the Set having Kandra. Did that just get dropped? Was there something I missed?
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Mordiceius posted:Lost Metal question at the end of Bands of Mourning, they mention the Set having Kandra. Did that just get dropped? Was there something I missed? LM spoilers: I can't remember any Set Kandra in Lost Metal either. Could be a dropped plot point. Or they were superfluous after that point from the Set's/Autonomy's PoV? Although I'd be curious to know where they came from in the first place. Mistwraiths were still around, so did they drop some Trellium Blessings into them to create new Kandra?
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Torrannor posted:LM spoilers: I can't remember any Set Kandra in Lost Metal either. Could be a dropped plot point. Or they were superfluous after that point from the Set's/Autonomy's PoV? Although I'd be curious to know where they came from in the first place. Mistwraiths were still around, so did they drop some Trellium Blessings into them to create new Kandra? For a while, I thought that the vice-governor was going to turn out to be a Kandra, or some of the senate, but that never materialized. It feels like a weird dropped plot point. Might be worth asking during one of his Q&A sessions.
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NikkolasKing posted:So of Sanderson's works, I've only read all of Mistborn and Stormlight. Even then, Mistborn Era 1 is significantly more brutal than Era 2. As I noted earlier, Era 1 does not shy away from rampant, unambiguous descriptions of violence and sexual violence. The first third of Warbreaker, uh, My partner and I listened to it on audiobook ages ago. We felt physically ill because it's (this isn't spoilers, as a matter of fact it's a content warning) a protracted, extremely detailed walkthrough of the terrifying life of a young girl traded into an arranged marriage per a postwar treaty, all power imbalances, threats, and sexual expectations included. There's eventually a twist, but Jesus H. Christ this was an extremely uncomfortable book to listen to for HOURS.
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Mordiceius posted:Lost Metal question at the end of Bands of Mourning, they mention the Set having Kandra. Did that just get dropped? Was there something I missed? I thought that was just a callback to Paalm
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Brutor Fartknocker posted:I thought that was just a callback to Paalm I thought it had to do with the end of that book, when Wax's uncle was blown up by someone who snuck into the jail. I know that person had red eyes, and I always thought it was another Kandra. Coppermind might be wrong, but it says the same thing so apparently I'm not just making it up.
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seaborgium posted:I thought it had to do with the end of that book, when Wax's uncle was blown up by someone who snuck into the jail. I know that person had red eyes, and I always thought it was another Kandra. Yeah, at the end of Bands of Mourning, there is a line like "the Set had Faceless Immortals of their own."
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Oh, yeah, forgot about that part. Coppermind also has (TLM spoiler) Wax down as a full mistborn now so the wiki editors at least think that's confirmed canon.
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