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This series sounds pretty cool, and the opening 1-3 chapters were interesting enough for me to pick up the first book (the scene with the assassin absorbing the stormlight orbs and using 'lashings' to change gravity orientations as a weapon/tool was pretty awesome). I'm really curious as to how an author plans out a 10 book, 8kpage+ series.
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A friend of mine who likes a lot of the same books just finished and said he had mixed feelings. The action and word building was good, but he said it read sort of like a humorless Malazan Book of the Fallen. I love me an epic fantasy series but is it really that devoid of light hearted scenes? One of the best things about Malazan is that while some of the humor was a little on the corny 'he talks funny' side, it was amusing and timely enough to break up otherwise heavy storylines. Is that not the case here and if so, how do you see that impacting the series? Even Joel Ambercrombies First Law series, some of the darkest fantasy I've read, had the odd humorous exchange written in. I don't think I can do 8k pages devoid of comic relief.
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IRQ posted:He doesn't world build, it's just europe. Not to turn it into a Sanderson vs Abercrombie derail, but you could turn that around and say that Sanderson doesn't write multidimensional characters, he just world builds (the opposite of Abercrombie, who barely world builds but has amazing characters). Interestingly enough, each of those authors abilities would combine to make one kick rear end author/book - it would be like a George RR Martin who actually releases books in a timely manner! 
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Aug 11, 2011 07:44
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Narmi posted:It hasn't really been explained yet, but there is a witch called the Nightwatcher who has the ability to grant wishes using the Old Magic. Dalinar visited the Nightwatcher, and in exchange for something (maybe battle prowess? his abilities seem to border on the superhuman, even when you take his shardplate into consideration.) everything about his wife is kept from him - all memories he has of her have been removed (or she's been removed from them) and whenever someone talks about her he can't hear anything, not even her name. mossyfisk posted:There's nothing in the book that shows either way of his wife being the curse or boon. But then Brandon just told everyone which it was.
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