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Gemhearts get bigger as the chasmfiend gets bigger, iirc, like magical gemstone pearls. The greatshell islands like in the merchant interlude probably have gemhearts the size of a house, if not larger.
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Jan 12, 2019 04:08
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They have a huge gem to store stormlight inside them. That'll do enough to help them live. Less gravity I think also helps the jumping flying badass/anime fighting that sanderson seems to like. It was a conscious decision for him I'm pretty sure he's said before.
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Jan 12, 2019 04:10
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The safehand stuff literally gets explained enough in book 2 enough to infer the rest. At some point in distant history an important Vorin published that the womanly arts were all the ones refined enough that you can do with one hand. Rich women therefore got impractical sleeves as a way of showing how refined they were (that they were masters of those arts and didn't need two hands) while men didn't and so stuff that needed two hands got called a 'manly' art. The societal norms and taboos evolved from there and the fetishisation is just because hidden = sexy. It's specifically noted that lower class women don't have time for this crap and just wear a glove since they have to do actual two handed work. This hasn't been a mystery for literal years now.
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Jan 13, 2019 07:44
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bewilderment posted:The safehand stuff literally gets explained enough in book 2 enough to infer the rest. As mentioned earlier through word of Brian, the reason THAT obscure female philosopher got broadcast through Vorin culture was so they could force women to give up their shardblades. Women stealing writing was their revenge in a way.
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I started reading Steelheart last night, only read the Prologue but it seems OK. What I want to know is why don't people's clothes change to steel when he starts making the rest of the area turn to metal 
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Jan 14, 2019 16:05
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Sab669 posted:I started reading Steelheart last night, only read the Prologue but it seems OK. What I want to know is why don't people's clothes change to steel when he starts making the rest of the area turn to metal They mention later that living things disrupt it, so stuff you're holding/wearing doesn't get affected. It's Sanderson so of course it gets explained!
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Jan 14, 2019 16:13
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It's no wonder that Sanderson thinks about what happens should he die prematurely. People keep asking him that. At a signing two months ago for example. Which spawned a little thread on the 17th Shard forums about this topic. https://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/83208-are-you-afraid-of-sanderson-been-unable-to-finish-cosmere/ Nothing special, really. Except for this post: quote:I think he would be wise to collaborate more in his writing. Imagine if he did the outlining for a book (for instance, Mistborn Era III) and co-wrote with someone else. He could cover a lot more ground this way. This might be similar to how White Sand or Death Without Pizza is being done.
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Jan 17, 2019 13:19
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Yeah Bransan should just be the ideas guy and hand off his projects to GRRM it would be amazing
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Jan 17, 2019 13:49
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Rothfuss seems busy in the same way you could say I'm busy when I decide to do all manner of cleaning / chores / errands instead of that important thing I'm actually supposed to be doing. I agree with GRRM that it's a pretty dickish question to ask an author though.
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Like, in Bransan's case i could see it naturally coming up in a longer conversation about WoT, but yeah it's a pretty morbid question (and one that has been answered often enough that it shows you didn't google before asking)
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mewse posted:Yeah Bransan should just be the ideas guy and hand off his projects to GRRM it would be amazing Sorry I think you mean the worst. I actually think GRRM has good ideas and abysmal writing. But I guess that's how opinions work right? Also why the gently caress are people calling him Bransan now? He's not a celebrity couple with himself.
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SynthesisAlpha posted:Sorry I think you mean the worst. I actually think GRRM has good ideas and abysmal writing. But I guess that's how opinions work right? - I was being sarcastic - Bransan has wanted to be a writer his entire life, wanting him to be some kinda fantasy novel Stan Lee is ridiculous - Passing his work to an author like Rothfuss or GRRM, who have their own projects that they can't finish, is ridiculous - I like saying Bransan (is also ridiculous)
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Jan 17, 2019 14:45
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This loving thread is dripping with sarcasm and it just doesn't loving translate to a goddamn internet forum. I must exist around too many people with ridiculous and awful opinions that I can't pick up when it's ironic. But you could at least throw in a  , man.
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I'm about done with "The First Law" trilogy (and stand-alones) what should I move on to next? Things that I've heard about but haven't read: -Elantris -Warbreaker -Skywhatever -WoT -Malazan series Things I've read already: -Mistborn era 1 and 1.5 -Arcanum -Stormlight -Kingkiller -Gentlemen bastards -Licanius
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Warbreaker is solid. Elantris is okay by Sanderson standards but is still better than most crap. Skyward was a fun read and I suggest that and Reckoners + Rithmatist if you don't mind YA books. All quick fun reads that left me feeling good. First person warning if you can't deal with that. Wheel of Time, man. I can't really recommend it in 2019. Its time in the sun had passed and there's just better stuff out there. I equate it to reading Lord of the Rings. It's good to know your ancestry but you don't necessarily want to live through it.
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SynthesisAlpha posted:Wheel of Time, man. I can't really recommend it in 2019. Its time in the sun had passed and there's just better stuff out there. I equate it to reading Lord of the Rings. It's good to know your ancestry but you don't necessarily want to live through it. QFT. I liken them to The Beatles: wildly popular and influential to a lot of modern musicians I like, but I don't think they're very good. I don't Hate it either, but when even self-professed fans are like, "Yea books 7-10 are pretty weak" speaks to the true mediocrity of the series.
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Chernabog posted:I'm about done with "The First Law" trilogy (and stand-alones) what should I move on to next? It doesn't hold your hand the way a lot of genre fiction does (it reminds me of more traditional fiction that way), which I enjoy as someone who's read other stuff. Kind of the opposite of Sanderson in that way, for better or worse.
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Thanks for the recommendations. I think I'll skip WoT for now, unless I exhaust all my other options.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:53
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Infinite Karma posted:This is the best fantasy series I've ever read, at least to my tastes. The first book is good, but a little shaky compared to the rest of the series. It's also polarizing. For example, I didn't like it and would not recommend it. I pushed through and read 9 books and then gave up because I realized I was just reading out of sheer determination to finish and had no idea what the gently caress was going on. Midnight Tides was good, though. That was the only book I enjoyed, mostly because it was self-contained and had a plot that I was capable of following.
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Chernabog posted:I'm about done with "The First Law" trilogy (and stand-alones) what should I move on to next? Mistborn era 2 or greatcoats or powder mage
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mewse posted:Mistborn era 2 or greatcoats or powder mage He's using the original notation. Unless he means Secret History. Seconding a recommendation for the Powder Mage books.
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Torrannor posted:It's no wonder that Sanderson thinks about what happens should he die prematurely. People keep asking him that. At a signing two months ago for example. Which spawned a little thread on the 17th Shard forums about this topic. Please tell me that person was escorted off of the internet premises. Rothfuss, when he actually does write (which is thankfully rare at this point), puts out mediocre yet overhyped garbage. I can only imagine how quickly Rothfuss would gently caress up something like Stormlight Archives, let alone characters like Hoid. Fezz posted:He's using the original notation. Unless he means Secret History. Thirding the Powder Mage books.
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Yeah, with 1.5 I meant Wax & Wayne series. I'll look into that powder mage book.
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Chernabog posted:I'm about done with "The First Law" trilogy (and stand-alones) what should I move on to next? From earlier in the thread: Leng posted:How hard do you want your brain to work? Infinite Karma posted:This is the best fantasy series I've ever read, at least to my tastes. I salute you. I still haven't gone back to reread it, it was that mentally exhausting, even though I know there would be massive payoffs in terms of what I would pick up the second time around. Also, Sanderson updated the progress bar on Stormlight 4 - outlining is apparently 25% done!
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Leng posted:massive payoffs in terms of what I would pick up the second time around. I just finished this series and it was nothing but disappointment from Midnight Tides on. edit: I was especially letdown by the climax in both Dust of Dreams and The Crippled God. I figured after all those pages, TCG would conclude things in a reasonable manner, but no, it was 900 more pages of Dust of Dreams and a quick unsatisfying ending. No wonder it took me 2 years to get back to DoD after starting it and quitting Xenix fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Jan 18, 2019 |
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Leng posted:I know there would be massive payoffs in terms of what I would pick up the second time around. FWIW, I quit halfway through book 1 the first time and skipped to book 2, made it to 4 and was like WTF are all these completely new characters and settings, ugh, and put it down. The second time, I read all of 1 and eventually made it through 8 which has got some series-ending level climaxes in it. Then I petered out on 9 pretty quickly. The third time worked out pretty much the same as the second. A few months after that I finally picked up 9 and 10 and powered through them without rereading anything before hand. It was kinda disappointing. I've read the series all the way through again one other time, and the ending definitely reads better (tons of new characters and before-unrealized plots in those two books that are tough to swallow on a first read), but the highest points (except for Ganoes) are in earlier books. I've definitely hit the middle 7 books several times on their own and they're among my favorites in the genre.
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mewse posted:- I was being sarcastic Brandon wants to be stan lee, in that hew wants to have a cameo in any movies that get adapted from his books, except, as a way of paying for the hell he puts his protagonists through, his cameos will always die
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Malazan is a pen and paper GURPs(?) campaign turned in to novels. In other words, Malazan is a very detailed Let's Play. 
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Chapter 35 of Winter’s Heart and I’m so loving excited stuff is actually happening before the last chapter The series starts picking up from here, you can now look forward to some really good chapters like the Maradon ones.
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Tahirovic posted:The series starts picking up from here, you can now look forward to some really good chapters like the Maradon ones. CoT is kind of the "hold countdown due to wayward boat" to the launch of events, but otherwise yeah--you're pretty much through the worst bits. Even CoT isn't terrible if you just power through it.
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Some would Malazan be bad to listen to? I do most of my "reading" while driving.
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The people who recorded Malazan did put a lot of effort into making unique voices for all the characters so its not a dull listen. Just very hard to follow for the same reasons its hard to follow in text.
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Yeah, that's what concerns me since I often miss sone bits if somebody cuts me off in traffic or something. But I guess I can just give the first one a go and see. Thank you all.
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I tried to read the first Malazan book. It felt like they were intentionally not explaining anything to try to make it mysterious, but it just made me have no idea what was going on.
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Tunicate posted:Brandon wants to be stan lee, in that hew wants to have a cameo in any movies that get adapted from his books, except, as a way of paying for the hell he puts his protagonists through, his cameos will always die So basically like Stephen King
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Pash posted:I tried to read the first Malazan book. It felt like they were intentionally not explaining anything to try to make it mysterious, but it just made me have no idea what was going on. That's how I felt, and that's how the entire rest of the series is. At no point will there ever be any reader-friendly exposition. I kept thinking it would eventually click if I kept going, which is why I managed to read 9 books of a series and do not have the ability to explain anything about the plot. I can remember a few tidbits, like "there are raptors with sword arms", but I don't remember why or how that was important to the plot.
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Do you need to rember anything besides "raptors with sword arms?" Seems like once you include that in a book nothing else really matters.
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SynthesisAlpha posted:Do you need to rember anything besides "raptors with sword arms?" Seems like once you include that in a book nothing else really matters. You’d think, but then you get books like The Dinosaur Knights
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