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at this point, i'd settle for book 6 before season 7

Also pretty sure the show runners confirmed that they are planning seven seasons. basically the next season should cover all of Winds of Winter, and season seven should cover A Dream of Spring.

If you're at the tenth heightening, enhance your night vision by awakening a lot of things, just to draw the color out of them and turn them white

My biggest problem with the Dorne story line is that we didn't get an equivalent scene to Arianne's final chapter from Feast. though I still can't hate it. anything that gives us Bronn singing "The Dornishman's Wife" is OK by me

oh so many books that I describe that way these days. middle school and high school me was just happy to have something to read.

I always saw them as more hermit crabs. and the chasmfiends as even bigger versions of that. like chulls are hermit crabs the size of a large cow/small car, and chasmfiends are the size of a bus or even a house.

Shardblades for me: I played a lot of Final Fantasy, and FFX and FFXII in particular (the PS2 games) have a large number of rather unique looking swords that are about 2-3x larger than any actual sword could be, and they tend to be rather flamboyantly designed/colored.

I see them as all being yellowish, basically the same color as an incandescent light bulb when it is on, maybe a little bit paler than that Syl is pale green and kind of transparent, in a wispy sort of way. Pattern is black ink. Don't know, offhand, how he is described in the book, but I see Sadeas as wearing yellow and black. he is also shortish, not fat, but not exactly thin, with a goatee and short, greased back, black hair, and light mediterranean skin tones. His wife is taller and thin, and darker.

Do we have a timeline on when the moonrocks fell from the sky? could simply be related to odium's attack on skai and aona, doesn't even need for them to be on the moon, seems reasonable that something as dramatic as shattering two shards would have system-wide repercussions. Also, I like the "moon scepter as stand in for the nation" theory in terms of it allowing access to dominion's power. that seems downright plausible. then again, brandon's response in the OP makes me think it must be wrong.

Absolutely. Also love Milo and Ex-PFC Wintergreen for some of their shenanigans

I'll second Catch-22. That book is fantastic. Wonderfully entertaining the whole way through. I don't think I can recommend it highly enough.

well, unless bendalloy/cadmium bubbles are affected by special relativity

right. I forgot about that. OK. so I am reading that as a bullet fired x meters from outside a bubble to outside a bubble (without passing through one), would be going the same speed as a bullet fired the same distance from inside a bubble and passing out of one, meaning from the bullets frame of reference, it never changed speed/acceleration.

Huh, I wonder how that interaction would work. I think in the book, Wax runs from one end to the other of the bubble, then turns it off, so he moves from one place to another quickly, but never necessarily touches the wall of the bubble. My understanding is that the bubble falls if the creator passes through the wall, so what would that do to your momentum/velocity? For example, If I can run at 15 m/s, in a normal frame of reference, then if I put up a bendalloy bubble that sped things up to 2x normal and ran at my max speed (15 m/s to me, 30 to an outside observer) and crashed through the wall of the bubble, how fast would I be going when I came out?

Shallan wouldn't have been alive for any book other than the Stormlight books and Alloy of Law, so we almost certainly have not seen her anywhere else.

Thanks, I thought that was what happened, but the physical versions of the books are difficult to search. And braces are generally glued to teeth (or mine were anyway) though if memory serves your braces and retainer were always liable to be piercing some part of your mouth, much to my chagrin at the time (OK, that's slightly exaggerated). That said, I assume a normal lurcher could pull retainer or braces from an open mouth, but it would take someone like TLR to pull them from a closed mouth.

I assume he meant them as two separate questions: 1. would someone be able to steelpush/ironpull on braces and/or a retainer? I assume not, I seem to remember someone keeping extra metal in their mouth to keep it hidden from mistborn (I want to say Zane kept a coin there at one point, but not really sure), so presumably the same would apply to braces or a retainer (if I am correct) 2. how location matters for hemalurgy. This one I think you covered about as well as we know it. Certainly I have nothing to add to it anyway.

I have to more or less second this. Brave New World is pretty good (though it does get a bit preachy toward the end), while I couldn't stand Catcher in the Rye (the entire book seems to consist of Holden whining for 3 days). Not sure I've even heard of the others, so no idea whether they are any good or not.

Off the top of my head: Melodies of Light, the end credits song to Final Fantasy IX. Oh, and Saria's song/lost woods theme from Ocarina of Time, Song of Storms too.

Bah. Feast is possibly the most interesting book in the series, though I would be willing to concede Storm as better overall. Dance is terrible. And that reminds me a bit of Wheel of Time. I hate the first two books in that series, but book 3 is great, and the next 2 or 3 are pretty good. then lull, then really good for the final 4ish.

A bit hard to give pros and cons without knowing your interests, but I'll give it a shot, though not in chart/list format. For me the main draw to Kingkiller Chronicles is the mythos, sort of. Rothfuss focuses a lot on storytelling, so you get a fair amount of myths and stories thrown about, some of which contradict each other, or supplement each other in fun ways, and it makes it interesting to try to piece together the mythic history. I may be misusing that term, but mean to refer to the actual history of what happened in myhtological times; like trying to piece together a history of the trojan war from the illiad and odyssey and the aeneid. To me, this is the most interesting part, and what he does best in that series. Next: I find the characters interesting, for the most part, though it is not too much of a stretch to find the main character insufferable, as some of my friends do. For example, he tends to be pretty good at almost anything he tries, which can get annoying at times. Also, for me personally, the character who seems to be the main love interest is kind of annoying, and I cant find myself getting behind that relationship (usually I am pretty ambivalent about these things, whereas here I am actually more or less against it). I suspect the biggest con is the rather gratuitous portion of book 2, which amounts to something like 100 pages that are practically full of sex. that or Rothfuss's writing speed, which is on the level with Martin. The third book in the series is supposed to come out sometime in the next couple years, and that should end "this portion" of it, but my understanding is there may be more to come after that

I never got the hate for Crossroads of Twilight, but then again, I don't need a whole lot of action to get me liking a book. A little bit of Mat and/or Perrin go a long way. Egwene too, towards the end of the series. That said, yea, the last 4 books are a major jump in quality.

Hmm, maybe give Stardust a shot. Stardust aims for a bit of a younger audience than his other books, or at least seemed that way to me, but that also means it is a bit more fun. Alternatively, maybe see if you can find the first volume of Sandman, preferably at a library. the Comic Book format means that even if the writing isn't pulling you in, the visuals could. I'm not normally much of one for comics, but I loved Sandman. But honestly, if his style isn't doing it for you, then I wouldn't try too hard to force it, based on what you posted, you've given him a reasonable chance

I actually do like westerns, but I still couldn't get into Dark Tower. Just didn't find book 1 compelling enough to follow it up. And my favorite parts of the Magicians trilogy were the Julia and Janet bits. I mentioned to a friend of mine that if Grossman could rewrite book 2 by taking out all of Quentin's bits and replacing them with whatever Janet was doing at that time *leave the julia chapters though, I love those) It would be amazing.. can't agree w/ you on Gaiman, though.

Sanderson tends to be really good at this (and I'll cite Awakening, from Warbreaker as a favorite there). for others: The magic system in Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea books is pretty good, and one of the few times I've actually seen "magic Words" type magic make sense. Specifically incatations and such are done in the language that that world's god used when creating and naming everything (as opposed to garbled Latin, say). I also like the aspect of it where knowing the name of a thing allows you to wield power over it. another I liked is the endowments system from David Farland's Runelords series, which works similar to Hemalurgy in some ways. and finally, I'm a fan of L.E. Modesitt's Recluce books for the Order/Chaos magic, which, when I read it anyway, seemed rather unique among most of the systems I had seen.