Sanderson Memes

[Sunbird she/her]

On 4/25/2017 at 3:18 PM, Meannadarie said:

I totally did this too, at the Library two weeks ago. I did a double take, took it down from the shelf and opened it to see if it was in extra large print for the elderly. Nope. Ha ha ha! That book is HUGE.

Fun story: The first time I read WOK I checked it out from my university's library, and it was the full-size hardcover. I work in the library and never go anywhere without something to read, so for a few weeks I was toting that giant brick of a book around in my backpack, in and out of the library every day. And every single time I walked through the security gates with the book in my bag, they would start wailing the alarm that I was trying to take library property out of the building without checking it out. (This happened both when I was leaving and when I was entering.) It got to the point where the security guards who were on shift at the times of day when I was coming and going started to recognize me, and I quit carrying the book in my bag so that I could have it ready in my hands for the guards to scan and verify that it'd already been checked out and I wasn't trying to steal it.

And you know why that happened? The security gates were reacting to a little magnetic piece of security tape in the book's spine that wasn't working properly because WOK is so storming fat.

[Khyrindor he/him]

Best part is, Oathbringer is 20% larger than even WoR... So excited. So much book to read 

[Jondesu he/him]

Edit: I used the concept art from Ben McSweeney that's on the Wiki for this.

Edited April 28, 2017 by Jondesu

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

I wonder what font size will be used...

inb4: 10th book we'll need dem monocle-microscopes to read it.

[Sunbird she/her]

So this was posted to one of the Facebook groups I participate in...

[Nashan’Elin he/him]

36 minutes ago, Sunbird said:

So this was posted to one of the Facebook groups I participate in...

From what I know of Hemalurgy, they're trying to steal the Feruchemical Hybrid powers, right? So these Earth Hemalurgists must know of a gathering of Feruchemists somewhere... Interesting...

[Sunbird she/her]

2 minutes ago, Nashan'Elin said:

From what I know of Hemalurgy, they're trying to steal the Feruchemical Hybrid powers, right? So these Earth Hemalurgists must know of a gathering of Feruchemists somewhere... Interesting...

Don't ask me; my technical knowledge of Hemalurgy (e.g. which metal does what) is even more sketchy than my knowledge of Feruchemy.

[Borio Singaldi he/him]

15 hours ago, Khyrindor said:

Best part is, Oathbringer is 20% larger than even WoR... So excited. So much book to read 

Really? I thought it was only 994 pages long, while WoK was 1008 and WoR was 1088. According to iTunes. Where did they say it's larger?

[Sunbird she/her]

26 minutes ago, Firerust the Terris Gyorn said:

Really? I thought it was only 994 pages long, while WoK was 1008 and WoR was 1088. According to iTunes. Where did they say it's larger?

"Larger" is probably referring to word counts, not pages.

[Borio Singaldi he/him]

1 minute ago, Sunbird said:

"Larger" is probably referring to word counts, not pages.

Makes sense.

[Khyrindor he/him]

Word count is 520k opposed to WoRs 481k (if I recall the numbers correctly)

[Botanica she/her]

Something based on Brandon's FAQ Friday this week:

Spoiler

 

[Unhinged he/him]

here's one based on the first chapter Sanderson released for Oathbringer

[Zennix he/him]

When you realize that you're going to have something truly Awesome for breakfast...

When you remember why you really want that Szeth action figure... 

[Koldun he/him]

 

Edited May 6, 2017 by Koldun

[The Technovore he/him]

*TMW you gotta stop this thread from dying* 

Breathe darn you! Breathe! *grabs defibrillator*

 

 

[Meannadarie]

I almost stopped reading them because I was so lost the first few chapters. Thank goodness I kept going. It's become my favorite series ever...and BS is now my favorite author. That was the first book of his I ever read, a doozy to start with!

[The Technovore he/him]

@Meannadarie Same here actually, I started my BS collection with two books, WoK, and Steelheart. I had to give up on WoK after chapter 3, only to come back to it after I finished Steelheart.

SOOO freaking glad I did 

Edited May 9, 2017 by The Technovore

[Taeshi Vei she/her]

On 4/25/2017 at 10:45 PM, Staphylococcus said:

IT IS!!!

When I started WoK I was like "why am I only 30% in after 4 days spent mostly reading?" so I talked to my friend who has a physical copy and who told me "well, it's huge. It looks daunting. I've had it for a year and still haven't got the courage to read it." So yeah. And then I saw it. It looks like a brick.

You will seriously not believe this - many people don't - but I read that in four days on audible.  Double tasking and staying up late, of course.

[Staphylococcus she/her]

1 hour ago, Runeweaver said:

You will seriously not believe this - many people don't - but I read that in four days on audible.  Double tasking and staying up late, of course.

Oh wow  I've been listening to Final Empire for OVER A MONTH

Edited May 10, 2017 by Staphylococcus

[Meannadarie]

10 hours ago, Staphylococcus said:

Oh wow  I've been listening to Final Empire for OVER A MONTH

I believe it's possible....but still waaaaaay crazy! I read/listened to WoK while training for a half marathon (that's many hours of running in a week), plus while doing house chores and it still took me two weeks! It's 32 hours, right? So that's eight hours a day for a four day read. Totally possible...but insane! Haha!

[Unhinged he/him]

I can't be the only person who noticed this

 

Edited May 10, 2017 by Unhinged

[Sheridan_rd]

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[Sunbird she/her]

WoK finale spoilers:

Spoiler

 

[Borio Singaldi he/him]

Spoiler

With each Stormlight book getting progressively longer, I'm getting worried:

Yeah, it took me about a month to read this book (It shouldn't have taken that long):

I've noticed that one Shardworld has been lacking in memes, as far as I've seen:

While on the topic of Threnody, how about those shades?: