nza if you havent already try sanderson's mistborn trilogy its probably his best stuff and its already completed
― roborally.rar (Lamp), Friday, 20 January 2012 01:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Release date for final book announced - January 8, 2013.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
that bastard
― Number None, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
The press release is cheesetastic:
A Memory of Light will release on January 8, 2013, in the final month of the Year of the Dragon.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
mixed feelings but lol @ over 20 years
― 99x (Lamp), Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm so full of rage right now. At least it gives me time to plan my assisted suicide though
― Number None, Friday, 17 February 2012 03:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
d/l'd elantris while i'm waiting
Seemed better than another re-read tbh
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh srsly, read all of Sanderson's shit
he's kind of great
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
well it's on the strength of ilx opinion so i know who to blame
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
if you don't come back in 2 days drawing symbols in the air with your fingers we'll know we have failed you
― piggyback payoff (NZA), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
sounds fair, sounds fair
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
i read the 1st 20 pages of the "way of kings" or whatever, the huge one, and the magic assassin was doing like matrix flip gravity stuff and it was like... too nerdy which for me is really pretty fucking nerdy. i was embarrassed to be reading it even though i was by myself. does that make sense?
anyway i'm pretty sure i can swallow my shame if there's an ilx endorsement of that one. it is attractively huge and has ridiculous michael whelan (i think?) cover art.
― adam, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh dude I LOOOOOOOOOVED Way of Kings
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dont really know what i thought of the way of kings. i dont think the world is particularly interesting yet but some of the characters are p good, and large sections of the novel move quickly and maintained my interest. when he tries to move quickly btw povs i think the novel really foundered and theres a lot of questionable stuff in there
honestly i feel like its the sort of the thing thats worth holding off on until more books are out. its certainly not a highly satisfying read on its own esp compared to his mistborn novels
― 99x (Lamp), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Rereading Path of Daggers - this is much snappier than I remembered!
― Tim F, Thursday, 8 March 2012 07:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i found a copy of 'lord of chaos' signed (hardcover) at the thrift this weekend. does an ILXor want it? interesting trades considered first.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't have anything interesting to trade, and tbh re-reading this on kindle w/out lugging around 700 pages of maguffin is one of the main reasons i'm now inseperable from the damned thing.
i'm re-reading again, i think it's cos once i finish each re-read i need to remind myself of details from book 2 or w/e almost immediately. at no stage have i ever felt like i've got a handle on it all. i may need help.
burrowing on wikipedia has opened up a lot of v cool stuff that may or may not have been obvious to others- rand has always had thor-ish vibes, if only for the name (signposted much) and the lightning (and the supreme power, earth-defining struggle final battle too i guess), but i'd never heard of this guy before. mat is, apparently, to be considered a loki-ish character type.
cool story bro
― I blame the prurience (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 01:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
a buddy of mine concatenated all of them into a single searchable pdf so that whenever someone popped up that he didn't remember very well he could zip thru and brush up without having to work too hard at it.
the big battle at the end of lord of chaos is maybe the finest moment in all of american literature.
― adam, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 12:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
now there's a claim
― Ну, там твое место, там сабе будь! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 12:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
other mythology/religion etc crossover hints i'm a sucker for- mentions of ancient battles at paaren disen, hevan, all that jazz. M'hael as 'battle leader'. Someone has been reading his milton.
― Ну, там твое место, там сабе будь! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 13:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
paaren disen, hevan
*smacks forehead*
― Number None, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 13:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
eh for me, you or jordan?
― Ну, там твое место, там сабе будь! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 13:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
me. Who knows what other obvious references i've overlooked
― Number None, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 13:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
REREAD
#10
FUCK'S SAKE NOT ELAYNE AGAIN PLS
otherwise, it's been a doddle up til now tbh
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 23:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
Chapter 1 of the last book is posted at the Tor site:
Eastward The Wind Blew
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 14:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
this makes me incredibly sad tbh
― Lamp, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 16:27 (7 months ago) Permalink
i hope the Dark One wins
― Number None, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 16:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
Those flash forwards in the last book seemed to imply a more interesting ending than I'd anticipated.
― ryan, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 16:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
there are neither beginnings nor endings
― Lamp, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 16:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
i just reread book #13 of this stupid series yesterday. All of it, like. Sanderson has a tin ear for jordan's dialogue imo.
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 September 2012 00:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
i almost bought a 2nd hand copy of a mistborn novel the other day and then i saw it was marked at like £5.50 and laughed and put it down
― paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Saturday, 29 September 2012 00:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
might d/l those in the meantime i spose.
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 September 2012 00:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
Sanderson has a tin ear for jordan's dialogue imo.
so you are saying this guy's dialogue is worse than jordan's wau
― mookieproof, Saturday, 29 September 2012 00:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
i think i am, if the choice is btwn stilted but consistent or flowery and scattershot.
Jesus but the trakands are just awful btw
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 September 2012 00:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
so the ending to this is rand, injured, on a boat, with three women (pick from nynaeve, elayne, aviendha, min, alivia)
go on then, predict from there.
everything points to him ending his days happily with min, leavin the others to raise his p. brattish spawn imo
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 October 2012 03:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
forgot moiraine d'oh
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
― gray star, a settlement in the remotest northwest (Lamp), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:24 (4 months ago) Permalink
I always said I'd do a re-read when the series was finally finished (I gave up after half of book 9). I don't know that I want to any more.
― treefell, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:25 (4 months ago) Permalink
i'm probably gonna have to take a day off work for this shit
― Number None, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:25 (4 months ago) Permalink
re-read is worth doing if you got the time. once you break the back of if you got as far as halfway through 9 you've done the hard work really, i think
the fucking thing isn't released on irish kindle for another month or two, so fuckem i'm gonna steal it as soon as i can
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:29 (4 months ago) Permalink
tbh im less excited about reading this than i am anxious, this is some in search of lost time shit for me and i cant help but feel a little cheated by any ending, since there are neither beginnings nor or something or maybe i'm just old and dying idk
― gray star, a settlement in the remotest northwest (Lamp), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:41 (4 months ago) Permalink
Out tomorrow! Though I'm waiting until the audiobook shows up in audible.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:42 (4 months ago) Permalink
oh crap i actually thought it was next tuesday
― Number None, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
ooh, looks like it might hit audible tomorrow. Groovy.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:45 (4 months ago) Permalink
i think the ebook and the audio are on the 10th
― gray star, a settlement in the remotest northwest (Lamp), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:46 (4 months ago) Permalink
where are you seeing kidle ed for the 10th? link pls!
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:51 (4 months ago) Permalink
Amazon shows audio book as out tomorrow.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 7 January 2013 23:18 (4 months ago) Permalink
11,004 pages4,056,130 words*419h 30m audio7,013 frustrated braid tugs by nynaeve
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:02 (4 months ago) Permalink
I've listened to them all as audiobooks. I have no idea how to spell 90% of the names.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:04 (4 months ago) Permalink
we have no idea how they're pronounced
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:06 (4 months ago) Permalink