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Isn't Tom Holland too old to be Spook? It isn't racist to try to remain faithful to the original content, but IMO is shortsighted. Each character has "core" traits that should be respected (physical or personality-wise) but anything beyond that should be free. For example, Vin's actress should be small, young, and introverted with a witty personality, but I don't care about hair/eye color, skin tan, or facial bone structure (European, Latin-American, Asian, Indian, ...). I even don't remember if the last two options are explicitly mentioned in the books. The question that I always ask myself is: from my favorite movie/TV shows adaptations from books are the actors precisely as described in the books? In a lot of cases, the answer is no and the difference didn't bother me at all.

If I remembered correctly, the Lord Ruler was described as at least three persons: with the appearance of young, middle age (regal), and old. And people have trouble identifying each one as the same person, but maybe I am misremembering. Anyway, physical appearance isn't the best trait to cast an actor, don't get me wrong you need at least a passable resemblance, but most important is the "personality" that an actor exudes when acting, IMO of course. Other actors that I will cast are: - Pedro Pascal as Clubs - Gwendoline Christie as Keeper Tindwyl - Mia Goth as Lady Shan Elariel - Anya Taylor-Joy as Allrianne Cett

I don't think Cavill will be a good Lord Ruler. I think he is to handsome/young. I don't get the ethereal, nihilist vibe from him that I associate with the Lord Ruler. I prefer him as Kelsier.

For me, the perfect Vin is the actress Jenna Ortega (Wednesday, Scream 5 and 6, The Fallout, X ...). She is small, can play reserved, mysterious characters, can transmit a range of emotions with very few facial movements (only using the eyes or eyebrows), and is very good at "being tortured" (see Wednesday or the initial scene of Scream 5. The scream on X was also good). For example, look at this image of Wednesday (I see her as Vin in Book 2 at the end of the attack on Cett castle): https://www.instagram.com/p/CkbGSJNuajX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link This other is Vin in book 3 at the dance party: https://www.instagram.com/p/Clj1LCFSQ7c/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet https://images.app.goo.gl/1Qc42YLyHBcWcBGU6

Kaladin finds Jasnah attractive. At least this is how I read the text: This is in Chapter 61 of Oathbringer.

You may check this app: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/52466-android-app-fan-of-sanderson/?hl=android It is open source, so you can contribute to it and had many features. I am also looking to publish it to Google Play, because i had some minor problem and i had no time now to solve it.

The problem for an iOS version is that I need to buy new hardware (MAC+iPhone costing ~$2000). I develop for iOS briefly in 2010 so I also need to learn again Xcode and Swift. Maybe in the future if I work with iOS again and this app is popular enough

Hi All. As almost all people here I am a big fan of Brandon books (read almost all) and I tried some time ago to join Tor "The Way of Kings" Reread. The interface for comments was a little awkward, and one need to spend some time to check and read comments, so I just leave. From this time I had the idea of an application (given that I am a programmer) to help the Sanderson Community to be more involved with all of his works. Last weeks I had some free time, so I just coded an Android app for this . The app will be completely free: price of $0, no in-app ads and will be open-sourced. This ensures that if I don’t had time to maintain the app (I plan to be involved in the medium term, but there are always changes in life) other can continue with it. Also maybe other developers are fans too and will join me, speeding up the development. Normal folks can help too editing the book metadata: https://github.com/alainesp/FanOfSanderson/blob/master/app/src/main/res/xml/books_data.xml You can add new books, edit some details or simple change all data (including book covers) to reflect other country publishers (like UK for example). The app currently is in a "release candidate" state: meaning is feature complete and ready to publish. Please give it a try. App .apk file : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tukRkBfLhSSW1ic3lMaXhGXzA/view?usp=sharing SHA-256 of .apk: C958F2FEA3F60C83A41677E7390BB50D0973BBB954F6115CD3FB130FAEFB69C4 Beta App Screenshots: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tukRkBfLhSa1pjUHdHc3BLZGM/view?usp=docslist_api App code in Github: https://github.com/alainesp/FanOfSanderson.git If there are some developer that want to help development, please contact me. Requirements: - Android OS 4.1 JELLY_BEAN or newer - Internet permission: Only used when you tap "refresh" or is automatically refreshing; the app can be used completely offline once you download data. What the app do: - Highlight all changes in content (new blog post, events, tweets, comments or changes in project status). Unread/New content use bold font where content already read use normal fonts. - Show the project status bars. - Show all blog posts. Users can read them locally. - Show all upcoming events. Users can read details of them. There are also options to add them to the Calendar or find the address location in Google Maps. - Show all Brandon books with basic metadata of them and links to more information. - Show Brandon biography. - Show Brandon tweets. - Show Tor Word of Radiance (WoR) Reread posts with the user comments. - Zoom in and out the text to provide better reading experience. - Smart features: zoom images when tapping, local navigation: when found a link which content is already downloaded by the app->open it, handle mentions in Tor WoR Reread comments: if you use @46 a link is provided to the comment you mention. What the app will do: - Tor WoR Reread: Ability to post comments. - Goodread integration. - 17th Shard integration. - Others suggested by users... Exciting features probably complex to implement: - Interactive book maps (related to the worlds in Brandon works). I had always problem remembering where things happens, so I expect a map where you can search for locations, zoom it and see labels, useful. Something like you search Kaladin and the map show all positions where something important happen to Kaladin, including paths of his travels. - Search of terms. Probably connect to Coppermind or Wikipedia to search for specific terms. For example search of "what are the ten radiant orders". - Geofencing. This is simple to implement and very useful to users, but requires additional work by Brandon, some of his assistants or a server with a lot of user input. "Geofencing combines awareness of the user's current location with awareness of the user's proximity to locations that may be of interest." So the user receives an alert when he is near a bookstore Brandon visit earlier and signed some books, or near an address with an event Brandon will participate, or near a bookstore with an expensive Elantris Leather-bound edition. We can also show a map with this positions labeled accordingly. I try to create a Google Play account and failed. I don't had more time for this at the moment, probably in some weeks. If someone can create a Google Play account for this app or want to publish this app in his account please email me. Comments or suggestions about the app are welcome. Please check and comment on the copyright: to note is that the app currently is named "Fan of Sanderson" and the icon is a picture of Brandon. Happy use of the app, Alain Espinosa