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Season 2 of The Blacklist. It's a very brutal program for a non cable show (ABC), but it is very engaging and James Spader does a amazing job portraying Reddington.

I prefer mistborn because it is a better paced series with a more interesting magic system. I prefer Stormlight because of the more in depth world building and it just seems more epic. Both series have their strengths...

Dang I misvoted. I voted for ruin, but thought it said ruler as in Lord Ruler. Any way to change my vote to inquisitor?

Mistborn right after the events of Hero of Ages because

Welcome! I, personally, did not like his Alcatraz books (they are just too silly for me). I recommend reading the Reckoners series, beginning with Steelheart, if you want to try his YA works. I think you will enjoy Mistborn...they are a close second for favorite Sanderson works!

Liar of Partenil. Dragonsteel. Thats all I can think of.

I vote for Ob.

I'm late to the party, but everyone has raved about this show so I gave it a try. I'm 2.5 episodes in and its just ok. It really needs some comic relief; the show is always either creepy, sad, or intense. Its got enough going for it that I will continue.

Avatar the last airbender is one of my favorite shows ever! My reaction to legend of korra can best be summarized as "meh". Its not bad, but a far cry from its predecessor.

“Honor is dead, but I’ll see what I can do." -Words of Radiance.

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2016 is almost over so I would like to share some of my favorite books. People can stick to my categories or create their own (other forms of entertainment are welcome). Stick only to what has come out in 2016. Best opening to a series: The Forgetting Moon by Durfee (This book blew me away by how awesome it is) Best Sanderson Novel: Bands of Mourning Best Audiobook: Morning Star by Pierce Brown (Tim Reynolds really did a great job with this series) Best Book by a first time author: The Facefakers Game by Birch.

I feel like Warbreaker is the redheaded step child of the cosmere...it is constantly overlooked. The only system not to get a essay in Arcanum Unbounded. Great book!

Thanks everyone! It looks like the Krammer pronunciation is incorrect...I'm surprised someone in Brandons team didn't forward the above pronunciation guide for Arcanum Unbounded.

I thought Cthulhu was a fine option for this years U.S. election.

So I have listened to the original audiobook of Elantris by Jack Garrett and am now on Arcanum Unbounded's Hope of Elantris, narrated by Krammer, and have noticed they have different ideas on pronouncing names. Has Brandon clarified the correct way between the options below? The first is Garrett the second is Krammer. Raoden: Ray-o-den or Raw (rhymes with wow)-den Shaod: Shay-ode or Shawd (rhymes with shroud).

From The Bonehunters by Erikson: I would tell you a tale, brother. Early in the clan's history, many centuries past, there arose, like a breath of gas from the deep, a new cult. Chosen as its representative god was the most remote, most distant of gods among the pantheon. A god that spoke naught to any mortal, that intervened never in mortal affairs. Morbid. The leaders of the cult proclaimed themselves the voice of that god. They wrote down laws, prohibitions, ascribances, propitations, blasphemies, punishments for nonconformity, for dispute and derivations. This was but rumor, said details maintained in vague fugue, until such time as the cult achieved domination, and with domination, absolute power. "Terrible enforcement, terrible crimes committed in the name of the silent god. Leaders came and went, each further twisting words already twisted by mundane ambition and the zeal for unity. Entire pools were poisoned. Others drained and the silts seeded with salt. Eggs were crushed. Mothers dismembered. And our people were plunged into a paradise of fear, the laws made manifest and spilled blood the tears of necessity. False regret with chilling gleam in the centre eye. No relief awaited, and each generation suffered more than the last." "What happened?" "Seven great warriors from seven clans set out to find the silent god, set out to see for themselves if this god had indeed blessed all that had come to pass in its name." "And did they find the silent god?" "Yes, and too, they found the reason for its silence. The god was dead. It had died with the first drop of blood spilled in its name." "I see, and what is the relevance of this tale of yours, however modest?" "Perhaps this. The existence of many gods conveys true complexity of mortal life. Conversely, the assertion of but one god leads to a denial of complexity, and encourages the need to make the world simple. Not the fault of the god, but a crime committed by its believers." "If a god does not like what is done its name, then it should act." "Yet, if each crime committed in its name weakens it... Very soon, I think, it has no power left and so cannot act, and so, ultimately, it dies." "You come from a strange world, Greyfrog." "Yes." "I find your tale most disturbing." "Yes." Also by Erikson in, I think, Reapers Gale: “The argument was this: a civilization shackled to the strictures of excessive control on its populace, from choice of religion through to the production of goods, will sap the will and the ingenuity of its people – for whom such qualities are no longer given sufficient incentive or reward. At face value, this is accurate enough. Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore, a kind of intransigence as fierce and nonsensical as its maternalistic counterpart. And so, in the clash of these two extreme systems, one is witness to brute stupidity and blood-splashed insensitivity; two belligerent faces glowering at each other across the unfathomed distance, and yet, in deed and in fanatic regard, they are but mirror reflections.

@Briar KingCool. Thanks! By the way would I have to spoiler tag stuff (if I want to talk about specific events) in this thread? Do you know to board's policy?

Thanks! I will give this a try. I have about 3 books ahead of it, but I'm excited to start this series. I heard that the Safehold book that came out last month concludes the series, but plenty is left to happen in a upcoming sequel series.

Show interest in their life/hobbies/likes (no matter how boring it is). Eventually they will realize that there is no way you could be interested in all that stuff if you are not seeking a romantic partner. Another thing is, I believe the term in, "mimicking". They touch their hair you do the same. You've seen movies..you've got this!

Have you checked recently? He added some new ones recently. Maybe you could email brandon as ask if you could enlarge a photo from a book and make a poster at a print shop? Good luck.

Welcome! I am part of a few forums and this one is, by far, the friendliest.

I'm on The Providence of Fire (the second book in the chronicles of the unhewn throne trilogy by Staveley). I've been very impressed by this series so far and book 2 has broadened the scope and raised the stakes.

So every once in a while I see that people are reading the Safehold series (by David Weber) in the currently reading thread. I looked it up and it sounds really interesting, but several reviewers have expressed great disappointment in the latter novels. Since this series looks to be a major commitment I am looking for fellow sharders perspective. What do you think of the series? Especially the latter books?

Just finished it! While it is always awesome (pun intended) to get a story set in the stormlight series I'm not as thrilled with this story as others are. I think that my problem is with Lift...I just don't find a little girl a very relatable character to me. She gets on my nerves at times. Still glad Brandon wrote it though; Bring on Oathbringer!