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I'm bored, sooooooo poll time!  

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  1. 1. Which Stormlight book is your favorite?

    • The Way of Kings
      38
    • Words of Radiance
      30
    • Oathbringer
      15
    • Rhythm of War
      27

  2. 2. Which Stormlight book did you read in the least amount of time?

    • The Way of Kings
      18
    • Words of Radiance
      29
    • Oathbringer
      20
    • Rhythm of War
      43

  3. 3. Which Stormlight book did you read in the most amount of time?

    • The Way of Kings
      46
    • Words of Radiance
      13
    • Oathbringer
      29
    • Rhythm of War
      22

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AquaRegia

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I'm assuming that the most- and least-amount-of-time questions refer to the FIRST time through.  ;-)

I'm glad I have good company in getting through tWoK most slowly.  The combination of lots of worldbuilding (which is cool, but slows readers down) and just being unfamiliar with the characters and setting probably accounts for that one being the slowest going for plenty of first-timers.  My son is a big fan of Elantris, Warbreaker and the Mistborn series, but he couldn't get into tWoK.  He says it simply starts out too slow - for too long - to really grab him.  

I'm not a fast reader, preferring to savor rather than gobble; plus, what's going on in the rest of my life will affect how long it takes for me to get through a novel.

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Spectromixer

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According to GoodReads - 

TWoK - 16 days

WoR - 31 days

OB - 42 days

RoW - 24 days

It looks like I'm in the minority in the poll with book one taking me the shortest amount of time. My favorite is Words of Radiance though. :)

Bejarden

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9 hours ago, Spectromixer said:

According to GoodReads - 

TWoK - 16 days

WoR - 31 days

OB - 42 days

RoW - 24 days

Wow

thats really long 

It usually only takes me 2-3 days to finish an SA book

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Spectromixer

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21 minutes ago, Bejardin1250 said:

Wow

thats really long 

It usually only takes me 2-3 days to finish an SA book

I read a few hours a day. I could probably finish them quicker if I straight up binged. 

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Chinkoln

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Ha, airsick lowlanders, I read the entire series in a day once! It was New Years Eve, so I was doing nothing and I stayed up really late.

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Bejarden

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1 hour ago, Chinkoln said:

Ha, airsick lowlanders, I read the entire series in a day once! It was New Years Eve, so I was doing nothing and I stayed up really late.

Was this by any chance when the series was one book long

:ph34r:

Chinkoln

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21 minutes ago, Bejardin1250 said:

Was this by any chance when the series was one book long

:ph34r:

No, it was 5 months ago, after RoW was released

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Bejarden

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Just now, Chinkoln said:

No, it was 5 months ago, after RoW was released

Wow

Respect

Giving you 2 upvotes for that

Spectromixer

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On 5/15/2021 at 7:29 PM, Chinkoln said:

Ha, airsick lowlanders, I read the entire series in a day once! It was New Years Eve, so I was doing nothing and I stayed up really late.

Wow, there's no way I could ever do that lmao

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Greenough84

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My favorite is The Way of Kings and I finished it in about 6-7 days. I think Words of Radiance took me 2 weeks. As for Oathbringer, I just finished it and it took me like four months lol. Planning on starting Rhythm of War tomorrow.

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The Sibling

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On 5/5/2021 at 9:57 AM, Spectromixer said:

According to GoodReads - 

TWoK - 16 days

WoR - 31 days

OB - 42 days

RoW - 24 days

It looks like I'm in the minority in the poll with book one taking me the shortest amount of time. My favorite is Words of Radiance though. :)

42 days is a lot of days. It took me 4 to finish Oathbringer.

robardin

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I read Oathbringer in the shortest time of any of the first four SA books, but that's a little deceptive because I'd already read several of the Dalinar flashbacks in the Unfettered II anthology, as well as having read the weekly early release Chapters at Tor.com as they came out. Put together, that amounted to something like a third of the final book.

TBH I think that killed my enjoyment of it the first time through. Interleaving Dalinar's flashbacks in their properly placed sequences in OB gives moments like him suddenly remembering Evi's name and What Really Happened at Rathelas emotional punch, but instead of re-reading those flashbacks when I encountered them, I just skipped them the first time through "to get to the stuff I didn't already know".

Olmund

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I binged The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance in one day each, because I was still single back then. Got married, read the first two books aloud to my wife in preparation for the Oathbringer release, and then read Oathbringer to her -- which slowed things down considerably (took well over a month, and that was with some pretty long reading sessions). Same story with Rhythm of War -- re-reading them later on my own I got through both in a couple weeks -- with more free time, I could have finished quicker...but it's nice to savor them a bit.

Olmund

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20 minutes ago, Anomander Rake said:

heretic!  its supposed to be the other way around!

Ha! I did get her to read Emperor's Soul and Mistborn while we were dating -- but SA is quite the commitment. If that's your acid test for finding a potential spouse, more power to you.

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Anomander Rake

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39 minutes ago, Olmund said:

Ha! I did get her to read Emperor's Soul and Mistborn while we were dating -- but SA is quite the commitment. If that's your acid test for finding a potential spouse, more power to you.

LOL, I've been fighting the good fight to get my current girlfriend reading Mistborn, maybe my offering to narrating it will be novel enough to win her over XD.

Until then I've got Michael and Kate to keep me company haha.  Thinking about it now, trying to mimic Michael in the HUGE range of voices and cadence he has while narrating is probably a blast.  I've always been particularly fond of how he does Loial, Szeth, and Mat.  And he always nails the humor!  

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Going_North_cal

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When I first read it (and even when I re read it), WoR has always been a tad of a bore, except for the end, and the funny Shallan scene (iykyk)

But all the others were positively riveting. And I've read them probably too many times. i need to branch out of Sanderson lol.

Bacon

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The Way of Kings is my favorite.

it's also the one I took the longest to read.

I finished Oathbringer the week it came out.

on Audible

at normal speed

Bacon

Bacon

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14 hours ago, Anomander Rake said:

1.2x gang B)

That's a weird way to categorize people.

Not that I'm gonna stop you from having a club about it.

I only said that to emphasize that it was a time in my life when sleep and meetings were the only times I wasn't actively reading Oathbringer.

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