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Iv'e always felt a correlation between the two and have wondered if Brandon has seen Gurren Lagann before.

Shardlet - Agreed about Hunger Games. I just couldn't stand the way it was written. I have problems with 1st person narratives because typically the characters are written in an omniscient manner where every perception they have is perfect every time and that just grates on me. The power of first person writing is that the reader shouldn't be able to trust the person's perceptions. I think a lot of authors don't take enough advantage of that ability. Its actually a problem I had with Firefight. David was constantly disregarding logic, following his "hunches" and generally being an unruly teen. It would have been nice to see him get it wrong. Don't get me wrong though, I'm anxiously waiting for Calamity, but I prefer the 3rd person generally speaking.

Shallan's chapters in the audiobook were rough. All I can say is that Kate does a MUCH better job with Shallan in WoR. So much so, in my opinion, as to steal the show. Kate's voice for Shallan aside. I also just found her chapters completely boring in WoK. My lady friend always gives me flack about it too. Whenever I ask her if she likes something she responds with "Jam. I like jam." Its enough for me to storm off! Shallans chapters in WoR are much better IMO.

Some of the mid-later books dragged on a bit. Especially when following some of the less interesting, or more annoying characters. That said, I enjoyed the series immensely. I also listened to the audiobook and Mr. Kramer and Mrs. Redding are phenomenal narrators. Probably the most difficult thing I noticed (especially for the audiobook) is that sometimes Jordan would introduce like 12 characters in rapid succession without much history or context. Without the option of flipping back a page or half page to check for relevance it was tricky sometimes trying to keep everything straight. I coped with it though, and got very good at remembering people.

Marasi. Busty intelligent cute college coed? Done. Oh and lets not forget, she's still single. Edit: And she knows how to shoot guns.

I agree completely and was just going to say that! :)/> I wonder who could defeat Odium based on that principle? Devotion? Wasn't Devotion splintered?

Found this in the comments, had me rolling:

I'm still arguing for Aaron Eckhart for Kelcier. He practically played the diversity necessary in the Dark Knight.

Seriously, do yourself a favor and stop reading the boards till you finish the trilogy. You WILL spoil things. Trust me, Brandon explains everything by the end. He is very good at making things clear, you won't be completely an utterly confused when you finish the trilogy. RAFO Draw your own conclusion. Then come talk about it. Believe me, it's worth the wait. =)

Increased weight is not a force, gravity is a force, and acts at 9.81m/s^2 no matter what you weigh. You'd need to have a rather large surface area to actually accelerate (and fall) much slower than that (i.e a parachute). Furthermore, force is mass x acceleration (not velocity). Drag is slowing you down no matter what. A change in mass will affect the rate at which you slow down (acceleration). Drag is a function of surface area, liquid density, object velocity and a drag coefficient. Thus as far as that equation alone is concerned, you can't determine if your velocity will increase or decrease with a change in mass. Another way of looking at it: Drag exerts a force on you that causes you to “decelerate”, (remember, acceleration is a vector quantity, and it can have positive or negative values depending on the direction of the vector and the way you define your axis. In this case, drag is slowing you down because it opposes your motion; therefore I defined acceleration as a negative quantity. That’s important in terms of balancing your force equations when running calculations.) Anyway: F=ma -----> a=F/m -------> as “m” increases your acceleration decreases. As “m” decreases your acceleration increases. If “a” is the “deceleration” (negative acceleration) you experience due to drag, increasing “m” will DECREASE the RATE at which you slow down. And if you decrease "m" you will INCREASE the RATE at which you slow down. This is difficult to explain without pictures, but I don’t have a way of getting anything up while I’m at work. Let me know if I need to break it down some more. =)

This statement isn't entirely correct. When increasing your weight, you would no longer be pushing against the horseshoe while flying through the air, therefore only forces acting on you are gravity and drag. When increasing weight, surface area is constant thus drag is constant, gravity is constant, and momentum is increased. Essentially, you were ALREADY slowing down because of drag, HOWEVER the rate at which you slow down is changed. In the case of increased weight, the rate at which you slow down is decreased. Unless you have already reached zero upwards velocity and are already falling. Though I doubt one would want to get to that point to initiate another push off the horseshoe. My questions is, at what point does the drag force overcome the force of the push. You see, if you decrease your weight to significantly less than the horseshoe and push off the horseshoe in mid air, assuming an entirely elastic situation, you should push off the shoe. However your momentum will be severely decreased, allowing the drag force to slow you at an increased rate. Without actually running numbers I can't say for certain if it would work. What what I CAN say is that if it is possible, it would take some VERY meticulous manipulation of weight and push/pull technique. Finally, in a vacuum this would work perfectly because there would be no friction to slow you down. Thus, the only force to overcome is gravity. Let me know if you need clarification on this. I wrote it up pretty quick. =)

Completely derailed off topic but I still think you're going to be limited by the melting point of your metal minds. And even with the temperature metal minds, there's only a limit to how much a metal mind can hold right? It would be one hell of a combo to survive a nuke. lol

Unless the solar holocaust was enough to melt his gold metal minds? Sort of depends on how hot, and how long of exposure the guy had to potentially endure. e.g. Pretty sure if you nuked Miles, he wouldn't be coming back.

Speaking of the other side of the world. I wonder what happened to the rest of the population centers that DIDN'T have caverns to go hide in. The reason being is that when Vin clogged the ashmounts, she freaked out and spun the planet around. Anyone on the other side of the world would have burnt to a crisp - unless she only clogged the localized ash mounts? Just makes me think that if there was another... Ferumancer(?) then he'd have to be near where all the action was taking place in order to find salvation during the final battle.

Could Sigzil be pretending not to know stuff? Maybe Hoid planted him on Bridge 4 to watch over Kal and make sure he fights Odium rather than joining him? I really need to finish this second listen through... I can't remember enough of Sigzil's parts to speculate anything with a foundation...

I'm on my second time through and I gotta be honest that thought crossed my mind too. He only recently been introduced (in my listen-through), but the more screen time he has the more I compare his role to something like Demoux, a secondary character that could possibly amount to something later on.

Remember though, he didn't have Kel's hair to use, so the imitation was bald.

That was sort of my initial point, emphasized by preservation's response in WoA when Sazed asks if he killed the people dying of the mist sickness. (Though they had to know the full extent of the mist sickness yet, as these were the first deaths anyone in the crew was privy to.)Sazed asked, "did you do this?" And preservation frantically shook his head no. But upon finishing HoA I chalk it up to being more along the lines of some people are gonna survive snapping, and some people aren't. Period.

Just finished HoA and there's a direct quote in one of the last chapters (I'm doing the audiobook thing so its difficult to jump to it for reference.) that states that the mist sickness was to snap people, and Preservation had not intended it to kill people. However, elderly and sickly typically were the ones that died from it if deaths were to occur. In the same passage it said that Ruin was the one who made the mists thicker and linger longer in order to create the deepness. So from that we can pretty much say Ruin was NOT involved in the mist killings. At least before TLR's ascension for sure. But probably not ever.

Didn't she say that she killed him, to the truth spren, the second time she went to Shadesmar? Wasn't that the truth she provided? Or is the question whether she took his sword or not?

I think a lot of us started out on a Nintendo system. Super Nintendo got me into gaming when I was 6, and some of my all time favorites are still on that console. That said, I'd be dismayed if a Mistborn game was made on a Nintendo system. The hardware simply isn't enough to handle what I envision as a capable Mistborn game. All my humble opinion of course.

I just had a thought about our world here, and how man was created in the image of god according to the Christian religion. Now I'm not overly religious but I do think something is to be said about god(s) creating beings in their image. If the shards were to create sentient life, my guess it would be in their own image. Since the shard bearers appeared "human", mankind, from any planet would likely follow that pattern. Funny though because we say that the shard bearers looked human- as if we created the gods. Wouldn't it be that humans looked like their gods? Humans looked divine?

I always figured that just because they looked human it doesn't mean they WERE human. They were gods, they could probably be whatever they wanted. Not to mention the humans on Roshar are known for having distinctive hair and eye color, where as the humans on Scadrial appear in a more familiar form to what we see. There's nothing to indicate that "humans" from any of the planets in the cosmere are biologically the same. They may be similar in appearance, but how much of that DNA is actually shared between them? It's obvious that people don't have to be strictly human to have human like traits or consciousness. Kandra and the Shin are evidence of that. I wonder if the word "mankind" is a relative term. For instance if Vin landed on Roshar one day, she'd still be an "alien" because she came from a different world. Mankind to her is different from mankind on Roshar, even if they do have a number of similarities.

I see the logic begind atium mistings only burning Ruins metal, but is there any evidence to support that? I just started HoA today, so I'm WAY before any of that stuff starts getting explained. Also, while they may burn Ruins metal, but they're still using Preservations magic system. I'm not sure of the relevance of the comment about there being no mistborn prior to TLR. If I remember correctly, there were no mistings either, and mistings only came about through diffusion of bloodlines. As far as I know, Feruchemy was the only magic system in place before TLR. I still don't subscribe to there being different levels of "snappage" for people based on what metal they're going to snap into. Snapping I suspect is an individual thing perhaps, but for it being easier for mistborn, and harder for atium mistings seems like a stretch to me. I don't remember any statements that pertain to that. But again, I'm still pretty early in HoA, so if someone has recently read it, or remembers a quote, please correct me. Sort of off topic, I also couldn't believe that it took that long for Kel to snap. He'd HAD to have seen/gone through some pretty bad stuff during his day... Maybe we underestimate what it takes to snap a person.

The sickness snapping people doesn't contradict what I said. I've actually always been under the impression that that is what the mist sickness was for. However, the sickness actually killing the people, I suspect has to do with Ruin interfering. I know it's a thin fine line to walk, snapping, and dying. And I realize elderly or weak people have a greater likelihood of dying, but I haven't listened to HoA again yet (starting that today!!) so I cannot confirm that only eldery or weak people were actually killed from the sickness. If it was not limited to weak and elderly then why would healthy people die from the sickness? Anyone remember the numbers? Out of the population that got sick, how many got REALLY sick, and how many died? Why would atium mistings get MORE sick? Is it because it takes more to snap an atium misting? Or is it because atium is more powerful and Ruin sought to eliminate them, but couldn't because he devoted more of his power to eliminating the Mistborn? And why would the Mist Spirit deny killing those people to Sazed? He may have wanted to avoid the "argument" but I have an itch that there's more to that encounter. Why have that scene at all?