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And we've acquired a fair bit of extra lore. We need a network of sites!

Reddit to the rescue!

Executions. That ought to teach them. Burn a few Twilight fans or something.

Once again I am reminded that we need a massive compendium / guide for getting started or caught up with all the Cosmere lore that comes from outside the books...

Well, Rothfuss is wielding the regular card decks business like it's a vorpal blade. Weeks* has the MTG going on, and I believe he would like to eventually turn it into a game, if the planets align properly. Supplementary materials, not just card games, are definitely a cool way to expand the franchise. * I will not stop feeling weird when I have to say or type people's names that are also regular nouns.

1. I think somebody asked this a while back, and the answer was that the woman who gave him the piercing was really a kandra (possibly even MeLaan?) doing Harmony's will. 2. If he is not using it, the charge will deplete very slowly on its own.

The scary thing is that this is technically possible in the Cosmere. Probably.

Becoming an emperor might help you that. I do my own work on Reddit these days (though occasionally I would meet someone gullible enough to let me stick a copy of The Emperor's Soul in their hands). I just can't seem to find many reader friends, regardless of genre - people don't read these days

That's a bummer =\ I've got a few friends around the world in situations similar to yours, and it just pains me to see people not be able to get books as quickly and easily (in terms of both convenience and finances) as I can in the US. An ebook (that you can read on your computer if you don't have a mobile device capable of processing those) should be cheaper, but I still feel your pain...

I believe that was intentional. Rand's arc in The Dragon Reborn was not really a journey arc - we knew he was going to accept his fate (I think - but come on, it was in the title!), and his journey to Tear wasn't all that eventful. What he did there was the interesting part.

I thought she did. At least I have some vague memory of her talking or thinking about the events in later books, and emphasizing how unpleasant the event was.

Ditto.

This is - or at least was - a popular interpretation. Knowing how flexible the Immortal Words are, I no longer think you can make this into a rule that applies to all of the Orders. It applies to Kaladin, but doesn't work for Shallan - the two Truths / Ideals she speaks are effectively her Third and Fourth Ideals (after the Life/Strength/Journey one the one she must have spoken before blocking Pattern out of her memory), and both of them are undeniably about honesty.

And eat people.

The new opening is actually fan-made. Somebody made it, posted it on the Internet, and apparently BBC liked it so much, they decided to use it (with permission).

I believe Kaladin's timing was just off. The highstormed summoned by the Stormfather at the end of Words of Radiance must have passed over (under) Urithiru while everyone was still getting there and figuring out how to go on with their lives. So we have a point of references, let's say Kaladin left Urithiru just as the storm was leaving it too - but they obviously moved in opposite directions. By the time Kaladin was close to his destination, the Everstorm had circled the planet and caught up with him, all before a new highstorm could show up.

For the first time in my life I feel left out because I have a "normal" brain. It's a remarkable feeling.

This is very much how I felt too. The fact that I barely remember what the series is about (and can recall only maybe 2-3 events from the 2000 pages or so) is not a good sign. Finished Zoe's Tale and loved it. It's very unlike the previous books, but it's written just as well. I'll probably be moving on to The Human Division next, and go through as many of it's episodes as I can before The Broken Eye arrives in the mail. Maybe even read all of them, as I won't be picking TBE from the bookstore, but wait for my online preorder instead.

I've seen a few people get their hands on a copy early. Considering I survived people reading Words of Radiance a week before me, it's a situation I am confident I will survive.

I have to agree - I don't have problem with adult content (as long as it is within reasonable bounds, and that's certainly the case with Dresden), but even if I did, the series would be worth it.

I don't even remember Storm Front featuring sex. I can think of three explicitly described sex scenes, but all three are significant for the plot and last... maybe a couple of pages each. But there is a lot more suggestive language - mostly Harry noticing things.

Adult stuff? The series only get darker, though most of that is in the plot.

Finished Goblin War a few days ago. The series wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped. Magic Ex Libris, Jim C. Hines' other series, is much better. Though maybe it's supposed to be. Went through Questions for a Soldier and The Sagan Diary (between-books short stories in Scalzi's Old Man's War series) after Goblin War. Questions for a Soldier was nothing exciting, but The Sagan Diary was... remarkable. I'll just copy my (spoiler-free) Goodreads review: Finally, I've started reading Zoe's Tale. I am always reluctant to jump between fantasy and sci-fi, but Scalzi has been sitting on my shelf for far too long, Old Man's War unfinished. I'll probably have to give him a break after Zoe's Tale so I can go read The Broken Eye, but I think I'll come back to him and read everything after that. Guy's a good author.

He was selling them, but I don't know if that was the reason they were taken down.

They used to have them - I remember seeing one for Mistborn and one for The Way of Kings. I don't know why they were taken down.