nightwriter

Love this trilogy! I'm looking forward to reading more of Sanderson's work.

@LightRinger and @Highprince10 ah... oops! I do tend to fall for things that sound like tasty treats, lol. I guess the whole cookie thing is something I haven't come across yet. @Little_Dagger Wheel of Time is one of my favorite series, but I think if I had to choose one 'favorite', it'd have to be ... um... there's so many! But OK - The Drizzt series of books by R.A. Salvatore. And that's awesome that you just finished WoT. It's so good and Brandon did such a masterful job of finishing it. Love it.

@Aeternum I really, really, did not like Lady Shan Elariel @Aredor Would I like a cookie? Well heck yeah! Just throw it in an envelope and mail it to me. I'm sure it'll be fine by the time it gets here. @UltimateArchivist What element if I were a mage? Hmm. If as an air mage I could direct wind to pick me up and fly me around places, then that's the element I'd choose.

@Through The Living Glass - That's actually a tough question for me, but if I had to pick one then probably Elend because he's a man after my own heart. If I were in his shoes, I'd be looking to try to make things better for the skaa, too. Keep in mind that I'm basing this solely on what I've read so far of only half of the Mistborn trilogy. @RoyalBeeMage - Um... no idea? Is that something from the Mistborn books, because that's all that I've read so far of Brandon's books.

Howdy all! I'm Tim, but go by nightwriter in most forums (a name I came up with 24 years ago for an unoriginal reason - I used to write and I did so mostly at night, lol). I'm 54 and live in the far west suburbs of Chicago. I work doing application support for a software development company in downtown Chicago. I recently started reading the Mistborn trilogy (currently on the second book) for the first time. This is also the first time reading any of Brandon's work, actually, unless you count the work he did to finish the Wheel of Time series, which I read four times. I'd say more here, but I already just wrote a bunch in the "About Me" section of my profile and it's time for me to get back to seeing what Vin and Elend and company are going to do about the many challenges currently facing them!

Well, I read the Wheel of Time series four times, so I guess you could say that I've technically read other stuff he has written. But this is the first of the books that are completely his that I have read so far. I'm only on book two of the Mistborn trilogy, about half way through that book. I will update my profile accordingly, thanks for the suggestion.

Despite what I said not being the correct phrasing, the phrasing as it is still doesn't work. The current phrasing is contradictory. Paraphrasing the current bolded part, Ham is saying, if the Mistborn that comes against Vin has atium, she won't die - this is not correct. Hopefully I'm making some sort of sense with what I'm trying to say here lol. EDIT: Just saw the other responses. Thanks for those. The problem is me. I tend to have a critical, editorial eye even when just reading casually and I found the phrasing here - in character or not - to be personally quite jarring. Thanks for the follow-ups and explanations, I appreciate it! Also, as an avid fantasy reader for a very long time, I can't believe I never came across this series before. Love it!

Book: The Well of Ascension Page: 41 She nodded. "There's something else, Ham. I'm out of atium." He stood quietly in the mists for a moment, and then she heard him mutter a curse. "I'll die the next time I fight a Mistborn," she said. "Not unless he has atium," Ham said. "What are the chances that someone would send a Mistborn without atium to fight me?" I'm reading this trilogy for the first time and LOVE it. One of the things I was thinking to myself yesterday was how great the editing seems. And then today I come across this section and found it jarring... shouldn't the section I put in bold say something more like "Not unless he doesn't have atium"... ?