Gatzby

Well deserved, congrats!

I'm sorry if I'm creating a 10+ thread for this. My hypothesis is, that radiants were disgusted, when people found out how to remove the symbiotic spren and make Parshmen and actually used that knowledge. My proof for this isn't actually very sound: 1. Branodn himself is disgusted by slavery and has written about it in many of his books. 2. In Dalinars visions the Radiants leave with very dramatic gesture. It certainly isn't the case of call for duty from the Heralds. Gatzby

Asimov is good. And your reply gives me a chance to bother you with some trivia: The Estonian translator of "Foundation" had to invent a new word. English foundation means both: a small town that settlers founded and the thing that holds buildings up (literally and metaphorically). In Estonian we have two words: vundament is the constructional technical word and asula that means a small habitation like a town or a village. So she came out with "asum" which means both as does Asimovs Foundation. Gatzby P.S. I wrote "metaphorically" right the 1st time ("Right" took me three times)

A little introduction of how I got here: I started reading sci-fi and fantasy in middle school. We had Robert Sheckley's "Ghost V" and Isaac Asimov's " Little Lost Robot" in our 8th grade literature textbook and I liked them both. Still most of what I read then was really early sf like "20000 Leagues ..." and semi-magical adventure stories. In high school I didn't read much, because I still had delusions of being cool and fantasy books weren't. That until Christmas 2001 when LOTR FotR came out. After that I started devouring anything Sci-fi or fantasy and ironically almost failed my literature class (guess what, "Foundation" isn't Estonian historical novel). After high school I read mostly Sci-fy. From fantasy Zelazny's Amber series which I loved and some Poulson which leaved me indifferent. But in the middle of the 00's one Estonian publisher started to translate ASoIaF and I became interested in epic fantasy again. So in Autumn of 2011 after finishing ADwD, I wanted more. Luckily there was a 12000 page monster named A Wheel of Time. It took me like 7 months to read the 13 books and prologue. Then I read the Tor reread for like 5 first books. Then I waited until January to finish it.I was pleased,.but exhilarated. So it took me a few months to want to read another epic fantasy, but when I was ready I chose Brandon's "The Way of Kings". This happened about three months ago and now I have read it twice. The second time was after reading MIstborn trilogy, Allomancy of Law, Emperor's Soul and Elantris. To put it in another way - when I became Cosmere literate Right now I'm half way hrough Warbreaker and waiting for more. So, that was a brief introduction. Gatzby P.S. Between ToM & aMoL I read 20+ Discworld novels an was delighted to find out that Brandon is a Pratchett fan..