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Glad to see I'm not the only one who would go publication order. However, @AngelEy3, for watching SW out of order I always thought the machete order seemed like the most thought out version (4,5, 1 [optional], 2, 3, 6). Haven't seen an updated version of it after R1 & The Force Awakens though.. And I've never tried it myself. SW spoilers:

Very minor spoilers for WoT here: In other news, finished both the Modesitt book and Alcatraz #5, now off to read Aether of night!

I hadn't! Now I have It looks interesting. Rome is on our list of places we haven't been to yet that you have to see at least once in your life, so now I guess I have some more things to look for when we get there. Not that either, it seems But I already saw the name in your "non fiction" post and got interested, so I'll look into finding something to use my 2 current Audible credits for. Any recommended starting point?

@old aggie Looking at all your shelves labelled "Christian". Are those because you're religious or because you're interested in the history of religion and what they actually say (or both)? Just wondering because my bookshelf has a huge section with a book series called "All the worlds holy texts" which I'm trying to read because I'm interested in what they say, all their stories of religions around the world. And then I'm also interested in old mythologies and other "dead" religions. But I'm not religious, so sometimes people get confused of my shelves.

Funny, I'd say it's the complete other way around. For a first timer through WoT I wouldn't read New Spring until a bit into the series (or actually, not until it came out in publication order). At least for me it would spoil a lot of the mystery of what was going on in the first book.

Books: Oathbringer (on my birthday, no less!), The Core (soon), Persepolis rising (December). Also, like a lot of other people; The Thorn of Emberlain, Kingkiller Chronicles #3 and Winds of Winter. Those last three seems to be taking their time, though (mild understatement), but I can wait. Tv Series: Stranger things s2, Westworld s2 Game: Ni No Kuni II - Revenant Kingdom I don't normally feel like I need to wait long between books, since it seems my favourite writers manage to release about two books every year. Lucky me.

For me, I think it's the opening part of the prologue to The Gathering Storm. Everything about that is just splendidly written. That, or Verin's "confession". Talk about playing the long game. As a bonus: Most of what Egwene does in Tel'aran'rhiod, especially in the beginning.

I guess they would be games like Warhammer. If I understand it right you basically have a table that's made to look like real life terrain, with 3d versions of everything, and then you have your "armies" in small miniature figures that move around the terrain. Googling "Warhammer board game" should give you the idea. Owning, collecting and painting the figures is a huge deal among a lot of people, including my boyfriend in his childhood. I think he has a whole cupboard filled to the brim with those figures. Edit: I have Ticket to Ride and Splendor as well, never got around to playing Pandemic. Do you have an account at Days of Wonder to play TtR online? I got one but then found I didn't like playing online against strangers.

If you want to read someone else's take on a magic system based on music, there's also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellsong_Cycle . Your system seems to include more music genres though, and sounds fun

I play a fair amount of board games, but haven't really fallen for the miniature games. The only one I have is "Battles of Westeros" (and I'm not even sure if that qualifies) but we only played that a few times. I semi-regularly host a gaming session at home for some of my colleagues, and the ones we play most often are Power Grid, Agricola, Puerto Rico and lately Battlestar Galactica. I guess the themes for those are "less dice, more strategy".

Yep, that's the drawback of sorting by height, like mentioned earlier. The rest of my Martin books are in paperback, so heightwise they fit on a completely different shelf. It would possibly have made more sense to have Dance at the bottom shelf (closer to the others), but that shelf is reserved for Modesitt and Sanderson HC books (although the Modesitt ones are starting to bleed over into the top shelf already because there's just so many of them). The top shelf is more for "standalone" or "small series" so Dance went there. I actually moved some Modesitt books around now that you mentioned it though (to fit the next two Imager books where they belong).

Nah, don't worry. I knew something was up since there was a blog post with a header saying something of the sort (which is marked as a "to read later" in my rss feed). It was just funny because I didn't expect to be spoiled there. Oh, and of all the things to be spoiled on, this is far from the worst Edit: And now I'm caught up anyway so now it's not a spoiler anymore

I assume you mean the "sort by height" and not the "sort by genre" ? I don't know, I find it gives the whole thing a tidier look, and it's also more effective for not having too much empty space in the shelves. Sometimes it's annoying, because you would think books in the same series have the same height, but no. Then height trumps it, although I do try to keep the books on the same shelf at least, which works until you get to the series you have both in paperback and hardcover. So yeah, maybe harder for finding everything, but the living room still looks tidy. As for the covers. For the Sandersoon books I actually prefer the US covers, basically because it has the same style as the Recluce books and the Wheel of Time books, for the most part. Or everything Tor. The back of the third shelf are just books I bought the latest or for some reason removed to make more room (and the shelf is already full so they're there until I can do a new critical sweep and possibly bring something upstairs). That shouldn't include the Wheel of Time, but it does, because I recently met a friend I hadn't seen in 15 years, and realized that the first six books of that series weren't mine, but his . So I gave them back and started buying the hardcover version (I'm in the middle of the Great Hunt which is why it isn't there). There's also the Lightbringer series, two copies of The Way of Shadows, Feast of Souls, the first two Malazen books, and one of my WoR copies.

Sad to hear that. What made you feel it was boring? I actually felt that way about both The Fellowship of the Ring (took three tries) and The Eye of the World (took two tries) back in the day, but friends insisted I read them so I tried again.

Finally had some time to browse through this. Guess what, you spoiled me! There's a book in your "want to read" section that I didn't know existed yet You should! And, I guess I should say that even though most of the Modesitt series jump around in the timeline a lot, reading them in publication order is the way to go, since then you get reveals in the proper order. It's not a complete must though (although I believe that's what the author himself recommends).

Yeah, they do, actually. Especially the bookstore I buy them in (called Outland), which is a store selling "everything geek" (meaning books, comics, board games, clothes...). I've never asked them, but it seems which version they get is a bit random. Also, the various versions is how I landed myself with 3 different copies of WoR. When it came out they only had the UK version, but I couldn't wait, so I got that one. But I really wanted the US HC version since that's the version I had of WoK, so when they got it a week later, I got that one as well. Then my friend went to the US, managed to get land himself in a Sanderson reading+signing, and asked if I wanted a book signed. Of the ones they had in store, WoR was the only one I didn't have signed already, so he got me the paperback US version. (Brandon actually visited Outland some years back, which is how I got most of my books signed.)

Well you know what they say, 1 is 1, 2 is 10 I'll try to be active on the forums, but I'm already noticing I don't have much input on the various fan theories, which (so far) seems the most active part. Which is as it should be. Guess those other people don't know what they're missing in terms of "constant book flow". With Sanderson and Modesitt combined there is a lot of new reading material each year.

I've been trying for a long time to combine audiobooks and exercise, but it only works with my walks. Any tips on how to get it loud enough to drown out your own workout noise, but not so loud that it makes your ears bleed?

I'm currently reading way too many books as usual, but on different mediums (anyone else do that?). So: Normal book: Assasin's Price by L.E Modesitt Jr. Audible: Red Sister by Mark Lawrence Kindle: Deep Water by Pamela Freeman .. and then a casual reread of the Wheel of Time when I need to skim something light after a long day at work..

Thanks for the welcome! The answer to the first question is a real hard one for me to answer. I haven't really read any of his SciFi stuff, but I've read all his four Fantasy series. Of those, the Saga of Recluce is my definite favourite. But to name an individual book is hard. If I really had to choose, and within the Recluce Universe, I'd say book 6, because it contains a lot of the elements I'm looking for in a book. However, book 8 and 9 turned the whole series on it's head for me and made me rethink quite a lot of the "truths" I thought I knew about good guys versus bad guys, and book 10 and 11 just contain a brilliant mind whom I really like. And then there's book 16 which has the only female protagonist to date. The problem with most of these are that they depend on an understanding of the whole series up to that point to really work. I guess the first one I mentioned is the easiest to read as a standalone though. For the second question, I actually did. When I was a kid I read a (norwegian) children's book series about several tribes living in the stone age. One of the protagonists got thrown out of his tribe, had to learn to survive on his own in the forest, then later built a boat and went on a trading mission to Denmark, getting stranded on an Island along the way. I guess that covers at least three

Finally a thread I can contribute to! Here is the overview of the books currently "allowed" to be downstairs in the limited shelf space I have (the rest, the books I deem to have "lower quality" than these, are crammed into shelves and cupboards in my spare room upstairs). From left to rigth: F/SF shelf History shelf Crime and various shelf And here is the part of the shelf you're probably most interested in:

Thanks! I hate being spoiled myself, so I'm normally well behaved about those things.

Thanks! And thank you for the cookie, just one question, is it made before or after the Hero of Ages? Your question had me pondering for a while, but I think I have to end up on the Well of Ascension. That was the first Sanderson book where I puzzled out a plot twist way before it got revealed, which left me with a deep satisfaction for being so overly clever. And then later I got this for the effort, which sweetens it (at least if the picture quality had been better): EDIT: @StrikerEZHow did you hide the picture? I wasn't planning on it taking up half the page :/ EDIT2: Got it!

https://www.goodreads.com/leijaa Even though I'm new here, it would be fun to see what others are reading, to get new input!

Hi! Confession: I've been jumping around the Coppermind countless of times. However, I never found a reason to sign up for the forums because I'm not really a forum person. But then there was free stuff (Aether) and here I am. To punish myself for being late I decided I should actually post something here, and try to become a good citizen by actually discussing things with people. There, had to get that over with first, now let's start over! Introduction: Hello there! I'm a norwegian female who have loved books since before I could read myself (much to the torment of my mum who had to read me bedtime stories). Most of my favourite childhood book settings included living among vikings, living in the stone age, being stranded on deserted islands or running away to the forest. No wonder then, that as a grownup I enjoy Fantasy more than almost any other kind of genre. However,I also run though crime novels, history books and way too many children's books whenever I get the chance. I started reading Sanderson when he was announced as the writer who would finish the Wheel of Time series and I wanted to know what kind of writer he was. I began with Elantris as it was a standalone, and continued with the Mistborn books.. After that I just kept going. To date I guess I've read every published work except the 5th Alcatraz-book, which is next on my list. I discovered Goodreads almost a year ago, so if anyone is interested in seeing what books I've read (accurate for the last year, not so for all books ever written), here's my account: https://www.goodreads.com/leijaa -N Also, whoa, just realized that I'll have my 10 year anniversary as a Sanderson reader this December.