Mistrunner Posted June 17, 2016 Posted June 17, 2016 21 hours ago, Mashadar Mistborn said: I did NYLT, which is a leadership training course, two weeks ago and it was very fun. I'm going to miss my group though. Thanks for recommending it, Mistrunner. Yay! NYLT is great. 1
Ecthelion III he/him Posted June 18, 2016 Posted June 18, 2016 I bought Mistborn Secret History today! Happy day for all! 4
Mashadar Mistborn he/him Posted June 18, 2016 Posted June 18, 2016 (edited) 16 hours ago, Mistrunner said: Yay! NYLT is great. We got the Hangy Downey Jr. Award for the most puns. Edited June 18, 2016 by Mashadar Mistborn 1
Sunbird she/her Posted June 19, 2016 Posted June 19, 2016 I got 2 pleasant surprises today. So last week I bought a copy of Rick Riordan's latest book, The Hidden Oracle, at the King's English bookstore in Salt Lake. Today I opened it up to start reading, and what do I find? Rick's signature scrawled across the title page! Score!! The other pleasant surprise happened while I was reading a copy of the graphic novel Kill Shakespeare Vol 2 that I bought used from Amazon. I found a loose insert with a letter from the writers/editors on one side that said there'd been a printing error and so they had to put that page in to correct it, but that maybe one day it would be a cool collectible. (The printing error was that the original page of comics was missing all the speech bubbles.) 1
Oversleep Posted June 19, 2016 Posted June 19, 2016 (edited) I finished Emperor's Soul today. I knew it's going to be different from those epic fantasy things Brandon usually writes. I knew that. I've read Elantris which had a plotline of, basically, a man thrown out to abandoned city of undead/leprosaurium. It was very different and that's why it could be my favorite Brandon book along with WoK since these books are so different I still have to sleep on all of that and wait until my mind sorts everything and so on, but I liked TES very much. Edited June 19, 2016 by Oversleep Tenses! Curses.
+Slowswift Posted June 19, 2016 Posted June 19, 2016 3 minutes ago, Oversleep said: I finished Emperor's Soul today. I knew it's going to be different from those epic fantasy things Brandon usually writes. I knew that. I've read Elantris which had a plotline of, basically, a man thrown out to abandoned city of undead/leprosaurium. It was very different and that's why it could be my favorite Brandon book along with WoK since these books are so different I still had to sleep on all of that and wait until my mind sorts everything and so on, but I liked TES very much. Yeah, it is different; not in a bad way, though. Glad you liked it! Personally, it's one of my favorites as well and I consider it one of his best.
Sunbird she/her Posted June 19, 2016 Posted June 19, 2016 Off-topic, but @Oversleep, where is this quote in your signature from? "If the doors to your base are not blown up at least once a week, you're doing magic wrong."
Oversleep Posted June 19, 2016 Posted June 19, 2016 @Sunbird, uh... well...sometimes I made up various lines characters in my story could say. Or even lines I want to put in it. Sometimes I put them in my signature and wait until someone asks me about it and then I know I wrote something which made someone curious. I usually ask whether they like that line and why and various other questions. I have another quote like that, but for now this one stays in my sig. I'll switch them when I feel that one is old. 1
Sunbird she/her Posted June 19, 2016 Posted June 19, 2016 @Oversleep That's super cool! That line kind of reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from the Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy: "Doors are for people with no imagination."
Kaymyth she/her Posted June 22, 2016 Posted June 22, 2016 I couldn't stand to wait three more weeks...I had the money in my account with plenty to spare. So I went ahead and did it. MY CAR IS PAID OFF YOU GUYS! 8
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted June 22, 2016 Posted June 22, 2016 4 minutes ago, Kaymyth said: I couldn't stand to wait three more weeks...I had the money in my account with plenty to spare. So I went ahead and did it. MY CAR IS PAID OFF YOU GUYS! Woohoo! Excited for you—like this pug!
Sunbird she/her Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 I just picked up the final Temeraire book, League of Dragons, from the library today. I also picked up a Muse album I hadn't listened to before.
Delightful Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 55 minutes ago, Sunbird said: I just picked up the final Temeraire book, League of Dragons, from the library today. I also picked up a Muse album I hadn't listened to before. Wait. How many books are there? For some reason I find it really hard to keep up.
Delightful Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 3 minutes ago, Sunbird said: There are 9 of them now. I think I've read about 6, I remember the one in Australia and the one in China and was that the same one as Prussia...?
Sunbird she/her Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 The one in Australia was #6, Tongues of Serpents. The next one, Crucible of Gold, was mostly in South America--Brazil. #8 starts out with Laurence shipwrecked in Japan.
Delightful Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 I'm fairly sure I read Crucible of Gold then, but I don't remember Japan. Thanks!
Wychmire he/him Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 I got The Way of Kings From my library yesterday! And stayed up till eleven last night reading it. And I still have about a fourth of the book to go...
Mestiv he/him Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 12 minutes ago, Wychmire said: I got The Way of Kings From my library yesterday! And stayed up till eleven last night reading it. And I still have about a fourth of the book to go... Oh, how I envy you... reading the last 1/4 of WoK for the first time... Take it slow and savor the experience
Orlion Blight he/him Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 1 hour ago, Wychmire said: To late... I sped through it Way to go! Be your own person, and bow not to Mestiv's tyrannical reading pace. Have an upvote, and ¡Viva la revolución!
Sunbird she/her Posted June 24, 2016 Posted June 24, 2016 12 hours ago, Wychmire said: I got The Way of Kings From my library yesterday! And stayed up till eleven last night reading it. And I still have about a fourth of the book to go... Ah, this brings back good memories... When I read WoK for the first time, I was also using a library copy. I happen to work in the library from which I borrowed it, and there was something wrong with the security device in the book so that every day when I went in or out of the library's security gates for work, the alarm would sound and I'd have to dig this massive brick of a book out of my backpack and present it to the security guard so he could scan it and confirm that I was not trying to steal it. After this had been happening for like a week straight, I finally got to the point where I expected the alarm to go off and would carry the book under my arm to go through the security gate so I didn't have to stop and dig in my backpack.
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