the winter system Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 A few hours ago, I finished Firefight. ... 2016? Grr Anyway, I REALLY REALLY WANT MORE! NOT ENOUGH NOT ENOUGH NOT ENOUGH!!!!!! AGH!!!! Anyway, I really hoped that there was going to be an explination about how Epics defy laws of physics. Then I got an Epic that gifted other Epics their powers. Not a good enough explination. I was glad that Megan finally pointed out that David didn't suck at metaphors because they were really similes. I loved the whole "Power of love" thing that Megan was complaining about. I might post more thoughts in this topic of mine later, when I'm actually allowed on this website and not being TOTALLY sneaky. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordofsoup Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Thats the issue with Sanderson. The man is a machine and he writes books for fun on the weekends, but it takes me hours to read when it takes months to write. Makes me wish it was 20 years from now so I could sit down and just read all summer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the winter system Posted January 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Especially when you read "like a machine" 20 years equals maybe a month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordofsoup Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Ya, but can you imagine that month. Wouldn't even leave the house. It would be awesome. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the winter system Posted January 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Assuming I have the time to. My summer months are pretty crowded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkarma Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 First book was predictableish but this book definitely makes up for any lacks in its selling points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurkistan Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 I thought it was starting to drag a bit towards the early-middle, but it picked up smartly enough in a few chapters and was pretty good. Definitely a different book from Steelheart; maybe better all things said. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I just want to say that using a sword to stab an elderly bedridden preacher with cancer to death is the worst thing any Sanderson character has ever done. It's a tribute to the author's extraordinary talent that the event was so natural and justifiable under the circumstances. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I just want to say that using a sword to stab an elderly bedridden preacher with cancer to death is the worst thing any Sanderson character has ever done. It's a tribute to the author's extraordinary talent that the event was so natural and justifiable under the circumstances. Yes. In almost any other book, that would have been an action conscionable only for a villain's Moral Event Horizon. But in Firefight…well, I can't be the only one who didn't feel sorry for Regalia. I wonder if Sanderson put that in there just to see if he could pull it off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Yes. In almost any other book, that would have been an action conscionable only for a villain's Moral Event Horizon. But in Firefight…well, I can't be the only one who didn't feel sorry for Regalia. I wonder if Sanderson put that in there just to see if he could pull it off. Undoubtedly so. A lot of the Epics we see are ruthlessly pragmatic--Deathpoint decides to massacre the people at the bank because he wants convenience in the future. Steelheart murders thousands because he wants people to fear him. Obliteration destroys entire cities because... well, he seems to have his reasons. But Regalia was sadistic. She expressed a level of unadulterated joy at the prospect of watching David murder his former friends. Her scheme through the book had no self-serving purpose--she just wanted to see an old friend corrupted before she died. If there were one elderly bedridden preacher with cancer in fiction who deserved to be stabbed to death with a sword, it would be Abigail Reed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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