Oathbringer Goals

[Straw he/him]

So... Me and my real life friends like to set reading goals to celebrate the release of books. For example I read the Temeraire series to celebrate the realease of Calamity. My Oathbringer goal is to read The Malazen Book of The Fallen, The Wheel of Time, ASOIAF, Discworld, and The Lightbringer. Care to set or share a goal?

[WayneSpren he/him]

4 hours ago, Straw said:

So... Me and my real life friends like to set reading goals to celebrate the release of books. For example I read the Temeraire series to celebrate the realease of Calamity. My Oathbringer goal is to read The Malazen Book of The Fallen, The Wheel of Time, ASOIAF, Discworld, and The Lightbringer. Care to set or share a goal?

You're going to read...4, 14, 5, 41, 4... 68 books before Oathbringer?

The Dedication

(I'm gonna read the Mistborn Trilogy, WoK, and WoR)

Edited August 2, 2016 by WayneSpren

[Oversleep]

1 hour ago, WayneSpren said:

You're going to read...4, 14, 5, 41, 4... 68 books before Oathbringer?

Is that even possible? I mean, if we go by average one book a week, starting now, the end would be... end of November.

And some of them are rather long

[Straw he/him]

I am on Memories of Ice, The Fires of Heaven, A Game of Thrones, Eric and The Blood Mirror. 51 books left, 2 years to read them!

[Khyrindor he/him]

You inspire me... Time to pick up Wheel of Time, I think. That is my humble goal.

[Sunbird she/her]

12 hours ago, WayneSpren said:

You're going to read...4, 14, 5, 41, 4... 68 books before Oathbringer?

The Dedication

(I'm gonna read the Mistborn Trilogy, WoK, and WoR)

It's totally doable if you're a fast reader and have enough free time to read. It's the beginning of August 2016 now, so assuming Oathbringer is released sometime in December 2017, that leaves approximately 16 months to read 68 books--that's 4.25 books per month or roughly a book every 6 or 7 days. If my GoodReads is tracking things correctly, I have personally already read 120 books since the start of 2016, and 35 of those were between June 4 and July 30, a period of not quite 2 months. Now, I'll admit that most of my 120 books this year have been in the 300-500 page range and it sounds like several of Straw's goal books are significantly longer than that, but I see no reason why that should be a real obstacle to completing the goal. I've been finishing a regular-size novel about every 2 days, but that kind of breakneck pace isn't necessary to read 68 books by the start of December 2017, so if some of them are longer and a bit more time-consuming it'll still be feasible.

As for my goals, I'll probably just do a re-read of the previous two Stormlight books. I've only read them cover-to-cover once each (I know, blasphemy!), so I need it, for sure.

[DSC01 he/him]

So... You're reading other books... to celebrate the release of unrelated ones...? That seems odd...

I mean, hey, to each his own. I was browsing through the comments thread on Brandon's Oathbringer update on Facebook, and I saw that one person commented that they were just going to read The Wheel of Time to tide them over while they waited. I was like, "But-but-but--I've read WoT three times since Words of Radiance came out. It can't tide me over any longer!!!"

[Mestiv he/him]

Oathbringer goal: finish the webpage I'm currently working on and develop ABS  I don't really like the idea of forcing myself to read anything specific in a given amount of time. I'm reading for fun, not for a challenge

[Straw he/him]

On August 3, 2016 at 0:21 PM, DSC01 said:

So... You're reading other books... to celebrate the release of unrelated ones...? That seems odd...

I mean, hey, to each his own. I was browsing through the comments thread on Brandon's Oathbringer update on Facebook, and I saw that one person commented that they were just going to read The Wheel of Time to tide them over while they waited. I was like, "But-but-but--I've read WoT three times since Words of Radiance came out. It can't tide me over any longer!!!"

The whole reading books to celebrate others helps with my reading schedule. This way I'm not reading any other books when the new book comes out.

[Magestar he/him]

Huh.  That's really smart.  I might start doing that.  Plus, I could totally use a reading schedule.  I read way too fast.    I finished the first two SA books in 3 days, one of which was a weekday. 

In other words, I totally think Straw's goal is possible.  Very possible.  You just have to remember to do it.  That would be my problem.  Currently, I am doing Wheel of Time.  I would love suggestions, as I have read most of the rest of the books suggested here.

[Zathoth]

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Im happy if I finish this.

[ParadoxicalZen he/him]

Jim Butcher's Dresden files, and the Necronomicon