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  1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Just a zucchini. Everything below -100 is Zucchini.
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    You become a Zucchini.
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    In the words of everyone's favorite Merc with a Mouth... Alternatively, is there anything that rhymes with "prison" so we can put that at the end of the song?
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    That sucks. I call that being voluntold--someone else is telling you that you're volunteering for something. It's scummy, and it's unfair, especially because there's usually not much you can do about it. Is there anything you can do to make it more fun? Turn your childish crafts into something subversive?
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    Looks like Orange Crush to me.
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    I think you should stop listening to Real Life long enough to finish it.
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    Am I the only one who can't look at our quest to ship Autumn without thinking of the Hearts and Hooves Day song?
  9. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

    When David Crockett lost a Congressional election, he told voters who had ousted him: "You may all go to Hell. I'm going to Texas."

    1. Kobold King

      Kobold King

      That's the spirit this state was founded on. :|

    2. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      Ironically, they stopped a few hundred miles east of Hell, which is also called Arizona.

  10. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    This is true. Still, given Reader's actions earlier in the thread—and the "Nyah nyah nyah nyah, I'm an Epic so you can't touch meeee" he consistently exhibits though both his actions and his internal monologue—that came across more as a piece of unintentional karma than senseless cruelty. Was it rude of Frostfire? You bet. Was there someone who deserved it more? Probably not. People included? That is a pretty powerful ability.
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    The Emperor's Soul is an excellent book, but it's not one I'd recommend starting with. All of the points you made regarding it are true; however, it is also paced far more slowly than most of Brandon's other works, with the majority of the action taking place in a single room with two characters discussing a third who is also a coma patient. Does it work? Yes, brilliantly. I adore that book for its contemplativeness, its excellent characterization, its ability to make the reader care about one character who has no lines until the very end. However, I'll say it again, because it bears repeating: it is extremely slow. Reckoners, on the other hand, is far more fast-paced. It moves at a faster clip than Way of Kings, and I'd say is a tad quicker than The Final Empire. Of the Sanderson books I've read, I think the pacing of Steelheart is much more typical than that of The Emperor's Soul, making it a better short book to give a new fan a taste of what to expect. (And, side note about the "magic" system of the Reckonersverse: yes, most of the mechanics do go unexplained until the sequel. However, I wouldn't list this as a bad thing. The effects of the system are observable, yet Sanderson makes the causes an ongoing mystery until Firefight, at which point they begin to unravel. In the universe of this series, it works.)
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    As someone who does much the same thing, I completely understand. No biggie.
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    Yeah, to me, Reader comes across pretty forcefully as a bully with too few people willing to take him down a peg.
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    Only if you ignore the way he picked on Terry Bloom and Backtrack for funsies earlier.
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    At the Church of Being Awful, maybe.
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    Is he independent, or is he a member of Vapor Snake's squad? There are a handful of openings for that, especially for soldiers who have awesome facial hair. That is worlds better than the average politician's motives.
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    Small words like that don't really bother me. I'm of the opinion that connector words—words like "yet" and "so"—are kind of like the word "said:" they're invisible words that do their job without calling much attention to themselves. Words like "chagrin," on the other hand, call attention to themselves and can easily be overused. /opinion
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    And he's a kinder dictator than pretty much any Epic out there, so….at least he's not an Epic?
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    Commander. He's the former commander of a National Guard unit stationed in The Dalles, who took over as mayor once Koschei was killed. What kind of vanilla character?
  20. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Strawberry jam.
  21. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    I'm with the guy on Twitter who theorized that this Reddit post is what temporarily broke the site.
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    Give her a shorter book, like Steelheart, to start with. That one's not much longer than most YA books, and it's what got me hooked on Sanderson books. I probably wouldn't have picked up, let alone bought, a doorstopper like Way of Kings if I didn't already like Sanderson, and the Reckoners books were what led me to like him.
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    Don't worry, Kobold.
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    Didn't say they were and didn't say they weren't. Juuuuuuust covering every perspective here.
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    Cheese Noodle bowls Fresh fruit (that may or may not be hallucinogenic )
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