Flywinged he/him Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) I have to admit, I stole the name of this thread from someone, I'm sorry I don't remember who it was , but I really like it. Okay, so basically, I've wanted to make a collection of all the cool hidden things Sanderson leaves for his readers that they can only pick up on if they have read all of his previous Cosmere novels. I tried something recently in the forums where I was looking for foreshadowing that Sanderson uses, but I think that was a bad approach. I think a much better approach would be to reread all of Sanderson's works and make a collection as I find them while rereading. What I'm proposing is to get a group of everyone on the 17th shard who wants to do a reread of all of Sanderson's books, and do it together! Kind of like a book club, except all books by Sanderson, and with people who all love the books... and we have all read the books before. And as we read through the books, would would use a google document to keep track of all the cool things we find. Anything and everything that is of interest. Foreshadowing, hints at Hoid, worldhoppers, the inner workings of the Cosmere, etc If I can get more than just me to embark on this task, I think we could get a really in depth document showing just how crafty Mr. Sanderson is . Plus we'd all get to meet some people who love the books we love and could share our rereading experiences. This will be my 3rd complete reread of all of Sanderson's books, and every time it happens I find more new and interesting things. Just a little background on me (because if you want to do this, we'll all be getting to know each other), I'm currently attending Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, studying Music Performance and Astrophysics. My first experience reading Sanderson's books was Mistborn. I'm kinda a spazz and I don't like small spaces, even though I'm not claustrophobic... I'm just spatially impaired. If you're interested, please let me know! Or if you have suggestions on how this could go smoothly, or really anything at all, go ahead and say it! I'm hoping this will be really successful and I'll be able to both meet a lot of people and discuss these books with people who love them as much as I do. And this will be a big task (reading 7 large books: Elantris, Warbreaker, The Final Empire, Well of Ascension, Hero of Ages, Way of Kings, and Words of Radiance) but I'm getting excited just thinking about it! Edited March 9, 2015 by Flywinged
Jeremy he/him Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 It might be worthwhile to check out this topic: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/22975-yearofcosmere/?hl=yearofcosmere. There's a group of YouTubers who are going through all the Cosmere books this year. A Google Doc for all of the hints, connections, etc. sounds like an awesome idea, and it might be worthwhile to hook up with people who are already reading through the books this year. 2
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