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These are the songs I've been jamming a lot lately really good stuff here. Barrow - Wither http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg_GGnNco8E La Dispute - Woman(In Mirror) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR7USljBVWE Carissa's Wierd - Ignorant Piece of [Redacted] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdl6V5otgoY Hop Along - Tibetan Pop Stars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCZKC6x9zlU Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - You Promised You'd Stay Here With Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFsKcfYJZI0 Edit: sorry about the swear...

Well there is this thread discussing the same thing so I suggest you go and have a gander =) But as far as I know Brandon will be moving on to SA 3 next. Firefight will be out early next year and Sixth of Dusk should be released this year... Shadows of Self has been postponed for a while. And Nightblood is also still far off.

I'm sure they just slipped well.. hopefully they just slipped. I gave you an up-vote to neutralise the bad.

Yes I thought this very thing. I was like Threnody... isn't she a character in MTB and then my mind exploded needlessly because Cornish and Sanderson are two of my favourite authors.

His YA stuff is definitely different in tone to his adult books. I would recommend reading Elantris might not be as good as the others being Mr. Sanderson's first published book but I love it, and I unreservedly recommend Emperor's Soul (an awesome novella- best thing Brandon has written in my opinion) and Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell (a short story found in George R.R. Martin's Dangerous Women Anthology). Hope you enjoy =)

kaos sometimes it doesn't send to hotmail addresses the same thing happened to my friend once, have no idea why it does though.

Still pretty much this... but have now started WoR (on chapter 3) and am reading The Corser's Hinge by Cornish and Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb... going very slowly on all of them.

I just checked and I'm pretty sure that the 11th of March is when New Zealand book stores are getting stocked, I wonder what's going on?

New Zealander. Speak English.

Do we know if this has been added to the Gollancz version yet?

I agree with you Cromptj I was thinking about this again the other day (yesterday) and I really think Elantris would make the best television series. The whole time limit thing would work quite well for a television series. It could sort of work in the current zombie loving climate and stuff too.

He does have signed books up on the webstore, but I'm pretty sure Words of Radiance will not be on there from six months to a year after it has been released. Also he often says that if possible buying from a local store is the best way to go to support local business. Other wise hardcover from any source is pretty much good for supporting him.

I would be so much in to this if there were no budgetary concerns I can only imagine what someone going into it fresh would think though. "So wait who are these people? What this is a different planet? Oh the next episode will probably help make sense of things... [TEN EPISODES LATER] ummm... interesting and all but... I have no idea what is going on..." I think something that would be really awesome and completely possible would be either a AoL era mistborn anime or tv series that either follows Wax and Wayne or works as a spin off in the same setting. Of course I still love your idea the ambition in such a project would be awesome. Maybe one day though we can dream =)

Welcome Teccam =) Your profile picture is godly just saying.

I see but I definitely understand how it can be helpful to on occasion separate word choice and prose.

You make a very interesting point I'll make sure to talk about word choice in future as opposed to putting it under the blanket term prose and when considered this way Mr. Sanderson's prose is really quite efficient . Also don't be surprised if you see me say something that contradicts a previous statement as my thoughts are pretty fluid until they have been externalized and cemented somewhat and even then I still change my mind on things as I'm sure we all do to some extent. Edit: grammar and spelling.

While his intention is to make invisible prose, I have a firm belief that no prose is ever really invisible. The closest I've read to invisible prose is something that many would indeed argue overtly poetic. Prose only becomes invisible when it fits the story perfectly, I know this may be asking for a lot but I do not see Brandon's prose as invisible it has too many noticeable ticks (note he has greatly improved; and this was something I was trying to emphasize in my first post). Of course what I am thankful for in Brandon's writing is that it is never overwrought having spent years reading Wheel of Time with it's absolutely atrocious prose which to it's defense is quite a non-issue while reading, Brandon's more straight forward style is welcome.In opinion he just needs to improve on word choice which I do not think is much to ask. I'm almost certain that Mr. Sanderson will end up at the pinnacle of the fantasy genre in terms of both ambition and writing ability but he isn't quite there yet and that is absolutely fine. I will stick with him as long as he is writing and I'm reading.

BEAUTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYY..... That is one of the most beautiful things I have seen. Thank you.

Okay so I know we are here because of how awesome Mr. Sanderson is and it probably is the worst time to create this thread as Words of Radiance is out soon (OMG dfijjhdlfgkjsdghfkljsdhgf so eexcite kjbdkfsdfkjgf gaaaaahhhhh) ... Ahem. But I was wondering what problems, if any, do you have with his writing/stories? Firstly, know full well he is my favourite author and basically all I read now days and that these issues though I have them they are just my opinion and do little to ruin my enjoyment of his wonderful books. So yeah please be kind... First and foremost his prose, it is improving and was pretty amazing in Emperor's Soul but in his older books it was simply passable. I really believe in world building with language so I do feel a bit disconnected from his work at times when certain out-of-place phrases come up, "mooning over" in Mistborn to be particular, though it definitely can be argued that is a quirk of translation. Just bugs me is all. Secondly there seems to be a lot of telling as opposed to showing and there are times I wish he would trust the reader a bit more, this is symptomatic with the gigantic worlds he constructs but it still annoys me on occasion. And one much smaller thing is the use of "said" a lot, okay I can understand why saidisms bug people but "said" completely breaks immersion for me if used too often. I understand it is an industry standard as it is simply invisible and only serves to inform us on who is talking. I believe the dialogue for the most part informs us who is speaking in most cases and having actions intermingled with dialogue is much better than "said" , "said" , "said". And once again I feel he is improving on this too starting with Way of Kings especially. Finally we come to description, it can be lacking, it gets my mind most of the way into the world a lot of the time but "most of the way" is not what I want. I want description that bring me into the very world with the character and though the depth of his worlds does do this to an extent I would like more. In the end all of these problems I have with his works are to do with prose which Mr. Sanderson is indeed improving on, he just in my honest opinion needs to trust us to read between the lines about a lot more than just his magic. Instead of Kaladin saying he's tired and explaining the kind of tired he is feeling in his thoughts maybe just leave it at "I'm so tired". We know his tiredness is a different kind due to the context. So those are my thoughts on that. Of course to end on a positive note these flaws I perceive in his works are definitely not enough to overshadow the wonderful and diverse character's, world building, systems, and tight plotting that Mr. Sanderson excells in. Never have I been more enrapted in a fictional narrative and the way he uses fictional worlds to comment on so many different real world issues is just astounding. So yeah this is my opinion (broken and deformed as it tumbles from my brain haha) I hope you don't hate me for it. And if anyone from Team Sanderson is reading this keep up the good work I am incredibly grateful for all the effort you put in to produce these treasures of fiction. Perfection needs work and I believe honest critique can help that. And of course every reader is different so if you disagree with my points please tell me and give me heaps of wonderful reasons to prove me otherwise haha.

I was wondering where you hailed from as i am in exactly the same boat as you are haha. Lucky Americans indeed haha.

Does anyone have a picture of the WoK hardcover with the glyph showing?

This is a very cool finding! I think I would assume it's just a texture but wow it would be so awesome if it was a secret message or something...

There have been three instances I've met people who have read and loved Sanderson. First my English lecturer who is one of the awesomest people I've ever met though I've never really talked to her personally. Secondly my English tutor who I used to discuss wheel of time and realmatics with and finally this guy from the US in my English class who had read mistborn. So it seemed there were a lot Brandon fans in my English course.

That would be a very different book I think but no less awesome haha.

His language is very infectious indeed. "Two stories set in the H-c (one already released in anthology, but now polished and with more WORDS[TM] added) involving new Sundergirdians doing their own thing (by which I mean NOT a sequel of MBT)" This is a quote from Cornish's blog on his upcoming book. The Corser's Hinge is being re-released along with one new story. Edit: "As for Tales from the Half-Continent, it is 216 pages long, has 1 map (recycled from Factotum - please forgive me), 8 character illos but alas, no appendices - it seems I am become too obscure to be allowed such indulgences a second time." Just some additional information from his blog.