EdgeDancerSquirrelGirl she/her Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 On 7/5/2018 at 6:24 PM, Emily said: My dad doesn’t want to listen to ANOTHER 8 50-odd hour long audiobooks that he’ll forget the plot of by the time the next one comes out I find this hilarious because I've experienced the same thing. My dad also listens to Stormlight Archive and is also mad about the length and also forgets the plot. For some reason I thought Stormlight was only going to be three bools long when I forced him to try it. He was not happy to find out it's actually going to be 10. Yet when words of radiance came out he started it right away. And when I told him about edge dancer he listened to that too. I haven't met any one yet who refuses to read it, but my whole family complains about the length, asking me questions like "Arnt there any independent ones? I don't want to read a whole series".
goody153 Posted July 30, 2018 Posted July 30, 2018 On 7/28/2018 at 11:19 AM, TheOrlionThatComesBefore said: "Division by Zero" is a fantastic short story by Ted Chiang! Completely unrelated but when i first read the mention of dividing by zero and everytime this phrase is mentioned here. I can only think of "I have no Mouth and I must Scream" famous scifi story. Maybe it's because dividing zero is futile which is a similar theme to that story.
Singer she/her Posted August 27, 2018 Posted August 27, 2018 On 7/5/2018 at 9:49 PM, StrikerEZ said: 5. I actually have a personal anecdote about this. I tried to get a friend of mine to read Mistborn, but she couldn't get into it and this was (basically) her complaint with it. How she phrased it was that the magic made no sense, and she had to constantly flip to the back in order to remember what any of the metals did, which broke the flow of the story. She also said there was too much stuff about the world given to the reader in such a short amount of time that it makes it hard to grasp the world. I had her critiquing my writing, and this was the exact same complaint she gave about my own writing. I didn't remember which metals did what the first time I read Mistborn, but I didn't have to because almost every time burning metal is mentioned it is accompanied by an action. Like, every time they say something about steel, pulling is mentioned in the same sentence. I figured it wasn't a big deal if I knew which metal was being used as long as I understood how it was being used and to what end. Brandon's books are for people who are comfortable feeling dumb right at the beginning because they know the pay off of how much they'll know by the end will be worth it.
HeyLookItz he/him Posted August 28, 2018 Posted August 28, 2018 14 hours ago, Singer said: Like, every time they say something about steel, pulling is mentioned in the same sentence. Steel pushes But that does just prove your point that Mistborn is still a great book even when you don't know the exact effects of all the metals. 1
Singer she/her Posted August 29, 2018 Posted August 29, 2018 On 8/28/2018 at 5:54 AM, HeyLookItz said: Steel pushes Good catch! oops. And there, I've proved that I still don't remember them and it didn't affect my read at all.
Nesh he/him Posted August 30, 2018 Posted August 30, 2018 When it came to iron and steel I just remembered that their abilities were alphabetical: Iron comes before steel, and Pulling before Pushing.
elinox she/her Posted August 30, 2018 Posted August 30, 2018 13 hours ago, Nesh said: When it came to iron and steel I just remembered that their abilities were alphabetical: Iron comes before steel, and Pulling before Pushing. This...is immensely helpful! Thanks!
Nesh he/him Posted August 31, 2018 Posted August 31, 2018 On 8/30/2018 at 7:06 AM, elinox said: This...is immensely helpful! Thanks! Happy to help.
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