Aliroz-The-Confused

I'm really starting to dread the prospect of reading Isles Of The Emberdark, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and The Sunlit Man.

People, both on this forum and in real life, have said that they are looking forward to me reading these books, or that I should read them, or that they are interested in my thoughts on them, and that's never a good sign.

On the internet, if someone's looking forward to your reaction to something, it usually means he or she thinks you will be bothered in an entertaining way.  People on the internet don't usually look forward to "I had a good time, the book was good.".

If people say, "you should read this book" but never, "I think you'd like this book", it means that the book might be one of those that I say, "you should read this book" but not, "I think you'd like this book" about.  Which means a book of quality which makes you feel things, some of which are otherwise than fun.

Given that the main thing people do with my thoughts here is disprove/disagree with them, and that being the forum's resident intellectual sandbag isn't as fun for me as it is for everyone else, the fact that people think one or more of these books will cause me to have thoughts they're interested in makes me think that things are going to be more like The Lost Metal and Wind And Truth than like Tress Of The Emerald Sea.  Either that, or that I'm in for a cavalcade of mister Sanderson directly contradicting my every interpretation in print.