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Sorry for derailing the Moash thread. Final Thoughts TL;DR: Everyone is entitled to their feelings and beliefs. I'm not trying to change your minds; I'm just trying to explain why I do not see what you all see. To me, Dalinar is easily one of the least bigotted Alethi characters in the series, and his action(s) here reflect a Military POV, not a support for a bad (and Hypocritical*) social construct. *"Oh, we hate the lost Radiants - they betrayed mankind. But their bonds made them lighteyed, so lets use that as the foundation for rule. . . "

But Darkeyes are not a Minority. Repressed peasant class, yes - but by-population they are very much the majority. The whole situation was much more of a Military thing (at least for Dalinar's part - Kaladin's the "racist" and Elhokar is just an indoctrinated noble acting as a spoiled child). Back in Ch 58, Dalinar (acting as General) ordered one of his Captains to comply. I found Kaladin's actions through the prison sub-plot to be far mroe reprehensible than anything Dalinar said or did (but neither were nearly as bad as Elhokar and Amaram).

Also note that a Bonded Spren isn't in the Cognitive realm unless their bonded Radiant is as well. One of the reasons that the Spren are so child-like early in the bond (Syl in WoK, Pattern in WoR) is because crossing over without the bond stunts their Sapience. Forging the bond with a Radiant is what returns their Sapience (and they gain back more of their memories as the bond progresses past the first and second oath). So, Timbre wasn't just hiding near sources of investiture, she was doing so in the Physical Realm.

If you check out that 2009 post in the second WOB above, you'll notice it was actually Canon before Hero of Ages was published - not that any of the characters (except possibly TLR) had any way of knowing that Preservation mucked around with the metals table (replacing Bendalloy and cadmium with the Era 1 version of Atium and Malatium) by making the Pits a focal point for the collection of Riun's power.

Talenel didn't return in the Prologue, he returned in the Epilogue of WoK. Hearsay (as in what modern Rosharans beleived, but not confirmed by a Herald) was that once a Herald broke to torture, the Heralds would return "about a year" before the "Voidbringers" (which is why they had time to, as Taln says at the Kholinar Gates, "teach you casting bronze, leadership, healing and warfare"). So, a Herald returning indicated that the Desolation was a year (or less) away - and in this case it was about half-of-a-year until the Everstorm (since he returned near mid-year and the Everstorm was summoned during the weeping). Here's the closest WoB I found (where the "year" came from IIRC)

Do you have that quote? I can't find it and I don't recall anything even close to that. Do you perhaps mean Ch 58 where he orders him to prison or Ch 62 where he tells him to consider it "guard duty?"

Technically, Dalinar acknowledged culpability as soon as he realized what had happened at the Rift. His alcoholism wasn't as much denial as it was avoidance (especially of letting his children know the truth); 98% the same scenario - slightly different motivation (significantly different emotional state - one doesn't feel the guilt and denies it exists - the other tries smothering the guilt because they can't feel anything else without chemical assistance).

Please don't go back a year on your quotes and responses unless there is a specific unanswered item that needs to be addressed - all of these items you quoted to respond to were addressed within a page of the quote you reference. The character in question first appeared in WoR Interlude 3. Dawnshard Spoiler: Actually, I think Wyndle mentions that he wasn't nearly as mindless as Syl and Pattern were. Something about "The transition to your realm wasn't easy, even with the precautions we took." Bolded section is why I said what I said - Wyndel also experienced a mindless phase (all sapient spren do, as part of the bonding transition), we simply didn't see that portion of their developement (which likely passed quickly).

Cooking (as a hobby) is entertainment, right? So, what are you cooking (with recipes if you want). Breakfast today was Sauté stuffed Crepe This afternoon I'll be making some stock for the freezer and baking some Pumpkin cookies to take to work tomorrow. Basic Crepe: Breakfast Crepe Saute Pumpkin Cookies

Affirm - To Be Released (tentatively scheduled for this year, but I have not yet seen an official release date)

Have you read Shadows in Flight and The Last Shadow? Do you recommend the series? Have you seen where we are trying to collect reading recommendations? They are sequels to Ender's Story from Ender's game. Here's my self-made guide to the Enderverse: TL;DR: It's all connected, but not as linearly as most series - more like the Connections for Asimov's Robots/Empire/Foundation series.

You will get these answers this book. (also, you are seeing why his nickname was The Blackthorn) TotES Spoilers

Well, what are you calling "an actual vampire?" Afterall, an Aswang is nothing like an Alp (and neither fit the Hollywood stereotype). But I do that that whatever that culture's perception of a Vampire is, the Returned would likely fit some loose stereotypes for that description. I'm more interested in that we know in Hallandren, people may Return for a "reason" - so I wonder if the other culture's Returned also do (or is that a feature of the Hallandren belief that makes this true).

Neither Dalinar's nor Moash's actions were "acceptable;" and, to me, comparing them is pointless since the sliding scale of morality will point differently for each of us (based on background, religion, personal beleif, etc.). However, I think the main difference is: For Dalinar we saw how his guilt wrecked and nearly destroyed his life, his relationships with family and friends and his health. While he sought Shardic intervention to free him from his guilty conscience, he used that second chance to become better (and therefore "earned" his redemtion) For Moash we saw the beginnings of his guilty feelings at the end of WoR (when he removed the Bridge Four patch) and as his actions and guilty feelings began to destroy his life - he too sought Shardic intervention for his guilty conscience. However, so far he has only used that second chance to slide further down the morality scale. He hasn't yet recognized a need for redemption, much less decided to start trying to improve. Will Moash get a redemption arc? I doubt it - if only because I don't think he would let himself take that path (other than possibly a "redeption by self-sacrifce-death").

Mistborn Spoilers:

Thanks everybody - posted to here. Also, how do you all think we should handle cross genre? Post the summary in both places? Post only in the primary and reference the secondary in the summary? Example: I was contemplating adding the "In Death" series (one part police procedural Thriller, one part SciFi, one part Romance), though I was avoiding adding too many items myself (since I want most content to come from the community) but the thought-exercise made me consider this question and decide to ask all y'all what you think. Edit: I also added a couple of "chronologies" (Malazan, Iron Druid, and In Death). Is this a "good thing"tm? I made a small tweak to your Geralt post (and also linked a source). Hope you don't mind . . . I got a bit obsessed over the Witcher playing Witcher 1 and 2 when deployed to Afghanistan a decade ago (well 2011/12 ~ish - shortly after Assassins of Kings released) Tangent: @Cruciatus_heart, @Hoiditthroughthegrapevine, and @Zurvanite, I hope you don't mind me quoting your posts from Best Books, since I guessed you were recommending them there (You had descriptions, not just a list). Feel free to recommend more below.

Well, to follow up on @Voidwatcher, my reading recommendations can work for a reread, but are primarily intended for new readers (to avoid spoilers). Every time I do a complete Cosmere reread, I switch up the order (to help find new things I missed before - like this (linked post is inside the TotES spoiler area)). My most recent entire read-through was in preparation for TLM: Hope that helps

Well, to be fair they were not at the time f their stories. We don;t yet know why they became worldhoppers sometime after their primary story concluded.

Thank you very much - I'm not so worried about the bullets as I am the information included. I guess I should have been more specific about that (bullets are easy to add, I'm trying to avoid needing to look up a ton of info for every "recommendation"). I'm sorry

If you have a device for eBooks, you can see if your library supports Overdrive - then use that to check out the digital version of the book(s).

Non-Fiction Historical Fiction Mystery Thriller Romance MG/YA MG/YA Speculative Fiction

Epic Fantasy Adventure Fantasy Fantasy Urban Fantasy Science Fiction Sci-Fan Horror SF WebSerial

I found a couple other threads similar to my idea here (2015) and here (2017); but rather than revive very old threads (and to aid in organization) I decided to start a new thread where we can collectively create a list of recommended reading. If possible, I would like entries to have this information (you can copy this format, but info trumps bullets): My plan is to Collect the entries from the thread and quote them here on page one for easy reference. Edit: I missed the Best Books thread, which is a similar (and slightly more recent) topic. Should I copy some of the items there to this resource? Thoughts, ideas, submissions (BGCs too)? Please see Index on Page 2 Index: Epic Fantasy Adventure Fantasy Fantasy Urban Fantasy Science Fiction Sci-Fan Horror Web Serial Non-Fiction Historical Fiction Mystery Thriller Romance MG/YA MG/YA Speculative Fiction

If you don;t yet have WoA, HoA or AoL; do you have any of the other Cosmere works? You could easily read Warbreaker, Elantris or Emperor's Soul (which is in Arcanum Unbounded if you have that for Edgedancer) while you wait to get the rest of the Mistborn books.

I don;t know if you have yet read any other works in the Cosmere, but if you planned to read more than just Mistborn, you may want to check out some of the many reading order threads, like this one. I would not recommend you move on to Shadows of Self until you get a chance to read Well of Ascension and Hero of Ages to finish the first trilogy.