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I did the same when the final Eragon book came out. I was getting sick of Eragon, was perfectly fine with most of the cast like Roran and Nasuada, and just wanted to see how the bloody story ended. Man that's rough. The closest I've come to that was when work was so tiring and relentless that I was stuck reading the same book for almost 5 months.

In my case there's no parked cars so it's just moving cars.

@CarolaDavar so to compare it's like sword fighting where you're trained to use a long sword but when using a great sword the results won't be right since the handling is different. I would think the buzz saw stuff would be similar to someone using an unconventional weapon, like a frying pan, in battle. It would be interesting to figure out which weapons would be the equivalent to the instruments along with how genre battles work, like a classical player versus a rock n roll band cause that type of fight would be interesting to see who wins.

When you feel offended when a booktuber, a youtuber doing book related stuff like reviews, puts a Sanderson book on his Books I Regret Buying list. Saw one the other day who put The Way of Kings on that list. Luckily, to balance that feeling out, AClockworkReader put the Mistborn trilogy on her favorites list.

@little wilson Any reason you only have 5 out of 6 on the City of Bones? I so want to read those books by Clare. I might start with either the Clockwork trilogy or Lady Midnight.

I got one worse. When me or my mom are trying to pull into the driveway and there's cars coming the other way preventing us from getting in, cats behind us will start laying on the horn like we're stopped for no reason. Sometimes they'll try going around us to the right, even when there's no room to do that.

Xion is a stick! Heres a written meme for you all: While you were reading this sentence Martin finished a sentence, Rothfuss finished a paragraph, Butcher wrote a chapter, King wrote a brick and Sanderson just finished writing 5 books.

You're a fan when you instantly like the characters instead of waiting for them to do something awesome.

Consider this on the first, each god might require different requirements to get their boons, so one might need a pound of blood but another a pint of feathers and getting the ingredients might take a while to gather. If it's the second he really hit the jackpot this time for AG but had a real miss with Oathbringer. Though he should share the ritual with Rothfuss and Martin.

In anticipation of Oathbringer i bet I'm with you there. I don't like loaning books because I know how other people behave with books that aren't theirs. Heck at my job, I work in the curriculum department for a school, you have no idea how many books come back looking like we've had them for 20 years, covers ripped off or in two pieces! The length of time they read for required reading is ridiculous though. Sarah Plain and Tall is a pretty short book, less than 100 pages, so that should be a read for a couple weeks at most right? Nope, the teacher returns them 5 months later! I did the calculations and the only way that would be possible is if they were reading a paragraph a day. My mom thinks I'm out of line there because I'm a fast reader and some kids are illiterate, these are high school students not young elementary students or foreigners who don't know English, but no one could spend 5 months on a book that's shorter than most short stories unless they were deliberately not reading it. Sorry, that devolved into something else entirely

He's probably not praying to the right Old Gods... or he found one that fuels him for a whole week.

This is a little info on a story idea I have. Pretty much there are these 12 ancient Warriors that pick people whenever a source of evil is coming or has already arrived on Earth. In this story all 12 Warriors pick hosts, something that is very rare since usually only a couple ever activate. Here's the 12 picked picked: The Wolf- a gay 20 year old First Nations man The Dragon- a 24 year old Welsh Transman The Tiger- a 16 year old Kurdish boy from Northern Europe The Lion- a 35 year old black man from the American South The Goblin- a 21 year old Scandinavian man The Snake- a 45 year old Aboriginal man The Mermaid- a 15 year old Ukrainian girl The Shark- a 19 year old Polynesian man The Orc- a 30 year old Māori man The Oni- a 25 year old man of Japanese descent from San Francisco The Kitsune- a 17 year old Japanese boy The Bear- a 51 year old Russian man I chose these types of people as 1) a reaction to whitewashing in film and 2) a desire to write a story where the heroes aren't all white Americans. I went with the logic that the Warriors have been around for centuries and thus have their chosen regions for worthy candidates, which excludes the Americas almost exclusively since the only people considered are descendants of people from a chosen area (The Oni for example only picks those who are Japanese or has Japanese ancestry) or First Nations. As for the gender imbalance it has to do with how the Warriors are kind of old fashioned. The conditions needed are: The Wolf - a warrior from a pure blooded First Nations or Georgia. Gender doesn't matter. The Dragon - has to be from the British Isles or China. Always picks men. The Dragon picking a transman surprises everyone, showing he doesn't care for the physical body, just the spirit. The Tiger - people and descendants of the Middle Eat and Indian subcontinent. Gender doesn't matter. The Lion - picks only from a handful of ancient tribes from Africa and those descended from them. Gender doesn't matter. The Goblin - picks from the Nordic region. Gender doesn't matter. The Snake - picks from Australia. Gender doesn't matter. The Mermaid - picks those with beautiful voices from seafaring towns. Despite being feminine the gender doesn't matter, though has a preference for women. The Shark - picks Pacific Islanders. Gender doesn't matter. The Orc - picks from England and New Zealand (it's a LOTR reference ) Gender doesn't matter. The Oni - only picks young men from Japan or has Japanese ancestry. The Kitsune - only picks from one particular Japanese family. If the family dies out then this Warrior will never activate again. The Bear - picks grizzled or tough people. The only one not tied down to a region of the world or to a group of people. What do you guys think?

@old aggie wow, you've certainly got multiple copies stuck in there. It was interesting trying to find where all the Sanderson books were, like a game of hide and seek.

I'm listening to Arrietty's Song, from the Ghibli film, in the different languages of English, Japanese, Deutsch, Italia and Francois.

Funnily Oathbringer is exactly one week before for me, if there's a midnight release nearby. As soon as Kingkiller 3 gets a date that's when I'm going to pick up the other books. Hurry up GRR Martin, winter won't wait!

It's always weird when titles get changed. A Dane I know once told me how Disney's Rapunzel, hate the name Tangled, was called Two on the Run! Japanese is really weird when translators do the English version. The sounds can sometimes have two spellings, like do you use ō or ou to show its elongated for example, so the translator is always taking a risk over what fans use, the accent elongation, or what they think makes sense, the non-accent elongation or just do the one letter so ō might just become an o. Had to look that up because it didn't sound right, because of the senor part, but google translate showed it was 100% accurate.

That's a pretty long title for Warbreaker

Shout! Factory/Scream Factory is releasing Misery! This is one of my favorite films based off a King book.

@Idealistic So you're Spanish? I can't read Spanish that well but I can make a good guess at your Sanderson books: Elantris (pretty obvious why), Mistborn The Final Empire, The Well of Ascention, The Hero of Ages, in guessing Alloy of Law, in guessing Shadows of Self, I have no clue, The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance.

You know you're a fan when a butt load of people sign up to the Shard just to read Aether.

This is so me XD I get coupons to Barnes & Noble almost every weekend and I'll get anywhere from one book to four or five.

I kind of grew up more on the animated shows and haven't read any of the comics. The Arkham games make sense to be dark since the Asylum is where the most dangerous criminals go and the later games have these same villains taking over the city. Also isn't Killing Joke meant to be more of a horrifying story because of what it's about? The films though it's feels like these guys are supposed to be heroes but there's no hope anywhere like there is in Marvel. Also the world building seems tacked on because isn't Superman considered the first Super in that world? If so then how is Batman an old hero and how is there already a prison for housing supers? Marvel is showing the world evolving and adapting to having supers everywhere but DC can't make up its mind if supers have been around very recently (as seen in Man of Steel) or for decades (as seen in BvS and SS). The historical films at least have excuses to have a super in the past and not have a contradiction (Wonder Woman going into retirement after seeing WWII without Ares to inspire mankind, Captain America being frozen and the serum never recreated until the 21st century, Ant Man working in secret) Heck Wonder Woman being about giving hope to a dark world was the one thing I liked about her movie.

Most of the magical worlds I've got brewing in my head are in the process where magic is going by the wayside but there are still bits and pieces in most. I already posted on the magic on my main epic fantasy story so I'll put the others here. One is where magic is genetic and shows up strong in women but weak in men, it has to do with the Y chromosome being a damper on magic so men have to work very hard to do a simple spell, but every witch needs to find their trigger to make their magic work. One activates her spells and potions by tapping the focus item, one can't do her spells without the color pink in her presence and the main characters grandma needed roses. If they do a spell without their trigger the effect comes out weird, like a spell to grow your garden faster might make any plants planted burst into flame once they are ripe. Another magic was very prominent but by the time the story takes place it's just a substitute for wifi so no one really practices it anymore, but it's the only thing keeping a whole race alive so if the magic ever went away then this one race would go extinct. There is another race where magic permanently changed them because eons ago a group of men let their dicks do the thinking so a sorceress cursed them by making their dicks become their heads, just imagine a head down there, and oddly enough they started breeding until every single member of their race became crotch heads. They still have a head on their shoulders but it's just for extra memory storage at this point. Then I have one for a parody story where wizards and witches are trained how to do magic to help assist an assigned knight since in this world it's meant to be a stereotypical fantasy world where knights and wizards go saving damsels, slay dragons and other stuff of the like. Pretty much they just need to say the incantation and do some associated movements. Well the main wizard of the story has a stuttering problem so his spells come out quite weird, like when he and his knight go to slay a dragon instead of the spell immobilizing the dragon it fuses the dragon and knight into one! So you can see that my magic systems are all over the place, but I think more about what the world is and then how magic is used there because most of my fantasy stories are post medieval period so they go anywhere from the Victorian/Edwardian era to even a modern world where by these periods magic is about as mundane and exciting to them as physics and chemistry is in the real world. Some even show magic on the way out as people go more for technological replacements instead, like using telephones instead of a scrying mirror or whatever they use.

Wonder if Brandon or Peter have seen this? XD

I think it's because they don't really have a plan and are going by the seat of their pants. Zack Snyder even said he's never seen or read anything DC Comics and was proud of that. What kept me from watching these films, except for Wonder Woman because I love that hero, is the way it's presented. I can handle dark stories when it makes sense, like ASOIAF makes sense being dark, but DC is not a dark universe so having it be that serious puts me off. Also the religious overtones from the Batman v Superman trailers really killed it since Superman is supposed to be the all-American hero, not a messiah figure!