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I seem to remember reading in the annotations that originally there were supposed to be a bunch of mist spirits, not just one. Maybe this is left over from then.

Do we know at what point in his writing career Brandon came up with the idea of the Cosmere?

Wow, you guys theorize way too much while reading a book .I only do that once I've finished it. While I'm reading it, I'm more like- I have no clue so why not just read and find out. Though I am inclined to believe whatever the character thinks, for example- I though Demoux was the Kandra, that Kelsier was really talking to Spook and giving him pewter- that kind of stuff. I'm really gullible that way.

Well, favorite book is a tough question. If you asked me to look at each book as an individual (as supposed to looking at a series as one long story), I'd have to say that my favorite book is Songmaster by Orson Scott Card. I can't really explain what made me love this book so much, I just did. But if I were to look at a series as a whole, WoT definitely wins the day! As to Faith of the Fallen, everyone says its the best SoT book, but my favorite was Soul of the Fire.

I just read Defending Elysium and since there was no other thread devoted to it, I decided to start one! So... has anyone else noticed the similarity between Jason Write and Orson Scott Card's Jason Worthing? I mean, they're both people who are trying to protect humanity- and not juts physically, but morally too. Not to mention the similarity of their names... It's probably just a coincidence but I thought it was an interesting observation.

Ummmm... have you read ToM?

Legion was the one he wrote on a plane

I had the same reaction to Pawn of Prophecy, and was hesitant about continuing with the rest of the series. But people urged me to read on, and it really does get better (tough Garion never really becomes interesting). I'm now reading Enchanters' End Game, and am truly enjoying it. EDIT: I've finished Enchanters' End Game, and though I enjoyed it I am a little bit confused about some things- what is the Belgariad, and who is the Enchanter? Neither of the terms are mentioned in the series as far as I know. Oh, and I was also wondering how come UL is spelled with a capital L. I'm now reading Chaosbound by David Farland, and am finding it rather annoying that the book goes back to the beginng of Worldbinder to tell us what happened to Borenson- couldn't Farland do that in the previous books- just add another POV- why jump back in time?

I first read tEotW upon a recomendation by a friend. I read through book 5, but I didn't realize how hooked I was to the books till book 6. I was getting them from the library, and though the library's computer said that LoC was in, it wasn't on the shelf with the rest of the WoT books. I surmised that it must have been put on the wrong shelf, and so I spent the next few hours looking through every single book in the library until I finally found it! That's when I realized just how addicted I was, and I proceeded to read all of the books.

I just finished Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Its probably the first Asimov book I read that I enjoyed more for the characters than for the plot (not that the plot was anything but awesome. One of the great things about Asimov is the way he ties things together across millenia, and shows how events 20,000 years ago can effect the present.) I'm now starting Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings, which will be followed by Enchanters' End Game.

How about a Draconian Crabwasp?

Did Brandon plan on finishing it this early- I don't know, but it could be that he did, and that Tor just wanted to release the book in January for their own reasons, and then the release won't be pushed up. But if finishing the book this early was unantiscipated, then maybe the realease will be pushed up.

I also just finished Goodkind's The First Confessor, and it was probably my favorite of his books, so if you're hesitant because of some of his less successful books- don't be! (It also has 84 reviews on amazon and 81 of them are five starred- 2 are 4 starred, out of which one didn't actually read the book and one says he only gives five starred reviews to people like Tolstoy- go figure. Oh, and another gave it one star for some reason). Unlike Aethling, I rather enjoyed The Omen Machine and would like to see a sequel- Hannis Arc was an intriguing antagonist. Before that I read David Eddings' Magician's Gambit, and that was pretty good as well- probably my favorite of the first three Belgariad books.

Awesome! But they are in no way dragons. They look to me like some kind of monstrous crustacean wasp. That thing that people keep referring to as a tail looks a bit like a stinger to me.

First off, read the whole series. And by the whole series I mean every single sentence and word- it's that good. As for book 10, though not much happened in the book, I'm not sure you would understand book 11 very well without reading it. Also, even if nothing happens in it, it's still a very well written book and it actually has a lot of emotional content if not action. Same with its ending. Though it isn't action packed it has some of the best emotional scenes in the series (Mat and Seta, and of course: PERRIN. AXE. HAMMER- one of the best scenes in the series)

That would be Roshar, not Sel.

I just read The Wyrmling Horde by David Farland, and it was pretty good! The Runelords series started off really well (books 1-3), but book four wasn't great, and the fifth was plain terrible. But after that, when I was begining to lose faith in the series, comes the amzing book 6 followed by a strong seventh book (wyrmling horde), and hopefully the eigth book will be just as good. I'm now reading Magician's Gambit by David Eddings, and it's starting off rather well, with the emphasis on a character that wasn't too important up till now(Ce'Nedra). I think this is the first book that has a non Garion POV.

You gotta get things in proportion here. Even if Elantris is the least good of Brandon's books (which I disagree with, WoK was my least favorite), it is still a freakishly awesome book, and I'm sure any sequel could only be better!

As we all know, one of the best parts of Brandon's books are the original and cool magic systems he uses in them. So I was wondering- what other books have you read that have magic systems worthy of Brandon? I've personally have found this only in Daviv Farland's Runelords, with the endowments system. Basically, you can give and endowment of a certain trait to someone, bt then you lose that trait. For example, if you give an endowment of glamour to somebody, he becomes increbidbly beautiful, but you become just as ugly. In the Runelords world, people use this to become superhumans. So, do you agree with me about Runelords, and what other books have you read with awesome magic systems?

I finished Foundation's Edge, and though it was good, I'm not so sure about the ending, it seemed like it took too much of a turn away from the direction the series was going.

I think that any novel written couldn't stand up to the original wheel of time series. I mean, New Spring was good, but not as good as the real series- and that was written by RJ himself. As far as I know, RJ didn't leave behind any detailed outline for prequels and the like so I don't see how Brandon (or anyone else) could pull anything off that wouldn't simply give the wheel of time a bad name or disappoint fans. Of course I would love to see all the ideas here written if RJ were still alive but that's just not possible. Side note: if a Shara story were written, it should totally be from Jain Farstrider's POV.

I wouldn't be so sure. When Vin and Kelsier are dueling and they get into a pushing fight over a coin, Kelsier beats Vin and then tells her that she shouldn't do that with a heavier opponent because his push would be stronger- which I take to mean that the strength of your push is the power your weight puts in to it. If the strength of the push had to do with your allomantic power, then it wouldn't matter (in a pushing fight) if Vin's opponent was heavier than her.

I've been wondering something about Allomancy. If steelpushing works by throwing your weight against the object, how could lerasium make steelpushing stronger without violationg the rules of Allomancy- you can only push with your weight, nothing more. So how is it that Elend's steelpush is super strong- as seen when he battles the inquisitor at the begining of HoA? I can accept that lerasium would allow you to Push metals within other people's bodies, but how could it make your steelpush stronger?

Well I was thinking that if they're going to have a war with Fjorden, they might need to fight in places far away from Elantris. If they just bottle up there, Fjorden will be able to raze both Arelon and Teod. The only problem is that aon dor gets weaker the farther you get from Elantris. So I was wondering if maybe the Elantrians could come up with a new version of aon dor, that would be based off a different place, same way as the normal aon dor is based off Elantris. The place would still be a depiction of the land, but maybe in a different way, or of a different part of it. If drawing a line in the ground with a stick was enough to represent the Chasm, it shouldn't be too hard to make a place like this ,with slight modifications to the aon dor. That way, they could battle the Fjordells far away from Elantris. Also, I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing some more of Shuden's ChayShan. Maybe he'll even teach it to other people, and make some elite fighting force.

Somehow I've got a feeling that knowing Brandon, any dragons he happnes to have in his books will be anything but conventional. He'll probably have some mind blowing new take on dragons like he did with prophecy in Mistborn.