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I know in Alloy of Law that it is said atium is a lost metal, which makes sense considering atium was Ruin's body.  He died, the atium was all used up, Marsh had the only atium left in the world.  

It still seems odd to me that Bloody Tan was able to pull Lessie so perfectly into the path of Wax's shot.  I suppose it could have been luck or he was just reading Wax so well that he could tell when Wax would take that shot.  I can't help but think that it's possible he was an atium misting that somehow got a hold of it.  

I also realize this has probably been debated plenty on here as well, lol.  

Anyone else pretty sure this is going to be about Fallout 4?  Man I hope so, really wanna play a new Fallout.  Wouldn't mind if they announced a remastered version of Fallout 3, New Vegas, and or Skyrim, but mostly I just want a new Fallout.

Oh I loved this series so much.  I wasn't even a fan of Daredevil the character before this show, but I am now.

It's not for everyone esp with the very weak story. Hopefully we get some good stuff on 5/19 with HoW. If you like PVP at all though Destiny should wet your whistle easy. PVP is all I do for the most part. I really need to get Raiding as I've only done VoG once and never even loaded up Crota raid.

I do like PvP, but that alone cannot carry a game for me, especially as I like playing co-operatively with other people more.

Holy crap yes.  Every video I see on it makes me want it more and more.  It looks soooo good.  After the disappointment that was Dragon Age: Inquisition, I am really hungry for a 'good' open world RPG.

If I said A Song of Ice and Fire would anyone hate me? Do I have any supporters out there?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

I wouldn't hate you.  In fact, as much as I loved the first few books, the most recent few have started to disappoint me.  I keep waiting for the war at the wall to spill into the rest of the world, but it never happens.  Everyone just keeps squabbling and the White Walkers just keep biding their time, and biding their time, and biding their time, and...you get the point.

Eragon, so much for me. Eragon was my first real obession back in 4th grade. My friends and I acted out scenes on the playground and I regularly used the Ancient language. But Eldest was so bluh that I didn't even read the last two.

 

I read the first two books of that one, and when it started to feel like the writer just took star wars and turned it into a fantasy series rather than a sci-fi series...I stopped, never finished it.

Sword of Truth!

Oh yes.  Read it through once, will not likely ever do so again, and have no interest in reading the new books.

Also, the Shannara series.  Read through the first book once, only ever made it about a hundred pages through the second.  Tried to reread the first one again a year ago, couldn't do it.

One other one.  Malazan Book of the Fallen.  Read through the first one, didn't understand a danged thing about what was going on.  Did not continue.  

Edit:  Just realized after reading more of this thread that I have actually posted in it before, over a year ago.  I guess that's what happens when you go away from a site for so long.  

I tried to play it.  Have to say though, after a few weeks, found it rather dull.

Yeah, I get a little worried about this sort of thing as well.  For me, Kaladin is the only character that I really, really, really, really, really want to live through the whole series.  I like a lot of the characters, but he is hands down my favorite, and the rest I would probably be okay if they bit it for the most part.  Well, except maybe Jasnah.  I really like her to.

Have you seen this page? He's got chapter-by-chapter notes for Elantris, the Mistborn books, Alcatraz, and Defending Elysium, in addition to Warbreaker.

Sweet!  Thanks.  

I just recently finished reading this one for the first time, really should have gotten around to it sooner, lol.  I really like reading the annotations for all the chapters in this book.  It's fascinating seeing the thought process behind all of his ideas and how the story goes.  

If he released an annotated versions for all his books, I would absolutely buy every single one of them over again.  

I would probably become the world's greatest practical joker.  Could you imagine someone someone going to lay down on a blanket and the thing just wrapping them up?  That would be hilarious.  

Or someone goes to put on a jacket and it becomes a straight-jacket.  

Vasher, simply because I usually go in for the more gruff, stoic sort of characters.

I liked it. Worth it for me, in my opinion.

 

Also, off topic, when I saw your picture I was like "wait, I didn't post that." It's weird not being the only one on the 17th Shard with a wolf-pic anymore. (wolves are awesome, aren't they?)

Yes, they really are.  

Thanks for all your opinions people.  I will go ahead and buy it based on what I have heard.  

I am really liking it.  It took me forever to get around to reading it.  I'm still in the middle of it so I am avoiding all of the other threads, lol.  

I can say one thing, you can definitely see from this book all the way to 'The Stormlight Archive' how much Mr. Sanderson has improved as a writer.  It's a great book, don't get me wrong, I love it, but the quality of his writing definitely got better.  Which is saying a lot with how good Elantris is.  

I do have a question.  Is 'The Emperor's Soul' good?  I mean, it's a novella, and on my kindle they are wanting $5 for it.  That's a significant amount for a 177 page story.  Is it worth it?

I saw a book once that was a crossover between X-Men, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Didn't read it, but I bet it was amusing.

Anything by Loreena Mckennit. I could listen to that woman sing the dictionary.

Alas I no longer have my bookshelves. I have a kindle now. I love my kindle, and I am somewhat of a tree hugger I suppose, though sometimes I miss my bookshelves and my books.

When I got my kindle, I donated all of my physical books to good causes. I had quite a lot of them.

Man I was glad when I realized that this was a joke. For a moment I thought it might be serious and my heart just screamed Noooooooooooooo!. Oddly enough it sounded similar to when Darth Vadar expressed a similar sentiment upon Sidious informing him that Padme was dead.

I find that debatable.  Kaladin doesn't do it because he's a good person.  He does it because Alokahr is important to Dalinar, and he was killing Syl.  I would say he does it because he changed his mind and decided it was right thing to do, after ignoring his conscious and Syl for so long   His motivations seem more related to the guilt of the people around him dying then being a good person.

He already thought Syl was dead though. He didn't like Elhokar, thought he was a bad king, but believed at the very least that he was trying to be better. That was what he told Moash, that Elhokar tried. In that moment, he knew that protecting Elhokar was the right thing to do. It wasn't about getting his spren back, because she was long gone as far as he knew.

My all time favorite has got to be Drizzt Do'Urden. I love how he is a noble hero who was raised in a dark world of oppressive evil, but he manages to rise above it, and stay true to his strong moral code.

Raistlin Majere. Dark, troubled wizard who had a terrible childhood. He rose up to become the most powerful wizard in the world, seemingly dark and evil in nature, but when it came down to it, he sacrifices himself to stop the world from basically ending rather than ascending to godhood.

Samwise Gamgee. Simply because he is to me the ultimate personification of loyalty.

Kaladin. Constantly kicked down, horrible things happen to him at every turn in his life, and yet still somehow finds the will and determination to save the bridgemen.

Perrin Aybara. Mostly because I would love to be able to do what he does, talking to wolves. And for his simple, basic goodness.

And though a lot of people don't like kender, Tasslehoff Burrfoot. He always made me smile.

Jim Butcher, Small Favors.

I read both Proven Guilty and White Night yesterday, and they were really good, especially Proven Guilty.

Into the Fire, by Richard Laymon. Man I have never read a book that needed editing so badly. It's not a great book, not even a good book really, but it's Richard Laymon, and he's one of the ones I go to when I need a break from more serious stuff.

I for one don't blame you. I highly enjoyed The Hobbit, but LOTR was just... okay. Tolkien has been praised to the ends of the earth by Sanderson and and Robert Jordan, but I just don't see it. He pioneered the genre, for which I'm grateful, but the books were lacking in quite a few ways.

You know what the amazing thing about me and 'The Lord of Rings' is? The first time I read those books was when I was in the fifth grade. And I absolutely freaking loved the crap out of them. They are what started my love of reading in particular and fantasy in general. Fast forward many years later, and I try to read them again, and I have a harder time doing it. Still love the books, though I can sort of see where you are coming from.

Why is everyone talking about caring? Even though there are lots of characters in Joe Abercrombie's world I cared for its not what made me like those books. It is one of most entertaining series I've read so far...

If there are not any characters that you can care about in a book then there really isn't any point in reading it. Characters are what drives a book, they drive the story in their books. If I can't care about a character in a book then I am not going to feel any tension when they find themselves in danger, I am not going to agonize about what happens to them next, I am not going to share in their joy when something wonderful happens to them, and I am not going to shed a tear when they die.

Books are meant to wring emotion out of us as readers, and if we can't care about those characters, then we're not going to feel any emotion.