The Rooster

@stonehand I'm usually not a Lirin guy, but I like that!

Leshwi having a true lost friendship with an Honor Spren is one of my favorite moments in RoW. Good one.

What Stormlight characters would you like to see become Radiant who haven't yet? What Order and why? I'll go first.

I was thinking about Truthwatchers today and what kind of characters would make good (non corrupted) Truthwatchers. I came to the realization that The Mink would make a terrifying Truthwatcher or Lightweaver. He'd be absolutely impossible to contain, track down, or defeat. His brilliance paired with Illumination make him so deadly in my mind. 

I believe he was trying to become Honor.  In fact my feelings of relief that he's dead after realizing how horrible Gavilar was and how ambitious his goals were have lead me to a horrible prediction.  What if he's still around and revealed in RoW?  Some kind of Cognitive shadow that picks up a huge investiture dump at some point in the next book.  It would also help give some context as to why remaining Sons of Honor aren't clowns (because so far they seem like it).   Honestly I hope I'm not right in this.  But it would really turn up the  book five  fervor for that Gavilar prolouge chapter if it does happen eh?

Hey Ya'll I thought I'd just drop this here.  You'll notice at the bottom of my profile is a theory from 2013 postulating that humans came to Roshar and Parshendi were natives.    Along with a request for anyone who'd said this previously to speak up.  I just noticed it, it made me laugh. 

 Rosharian Anthropology

This topic should be shut down.  Noone can finish Part 4 without deciding to marathon the rest of the book.

My Amazon Preorder book was just delivered.  I'm at work now just watching the time tick by sweating more every second.  It's going to be a long night.

5 minutes ago, StormingTexan said:

I agree. Now I would be ok with seeing her in the CR a' la secret history but if she suddenly comes back to life in the PR I am going to be disappointed.

CR= Cognitive REALM.  Sorry that took way to long to decipher.  Yeah, I hope full dead.  It would be sad but effective.

I really hope she's dead.  Why even show her dead body if she's not dead.  Too many fake-outs if she's not.  Just leave empty armor and make it a mystery where she's gone if she's not dead.  Sad. I really liked Eshonai.

He was a super powerful Allomancer because he got Allmoancy from Lerasium. 

Not on Nook yet either.  

I brought up a question about GreatShell Senescence a while back and if they do achieve senescence and what that does.  Also if them not reaching that state is why hunting them will cause ramifications.  I've never see anyone ask him about this.

Genghis has the lead in history only imo because of numbers.  You want a true monster of history look at someone like Vlad Tepes.  The interesting thing is that some depictions of him also paint him as a hero.

Vlad protected Wallachia from those damned Ottmans!  I'll hear no poppycock denouncing him!

Does anyone know who the Counselor of Gods is?  That person has apparently written a Seven volume collection of political musings that Marasai notes while digging up the Governors dirty laundry.I'd assume it's someone from the original trilogy but I can't think of who it is from the survivors.  My guess would be Breeze but wouldn't they just call him Breeze.

Just came from a signing at a local library here in NE Ohio (where McClellan lives - awesome that he's local for us!). Very approachable and engaging, and it was easier to get one's questions answered in a crowd of 30 than at one of Brandon's [huge] signings.

 

I also found out that I'm not the only one who uses the short fiction to pass time on the treadmill (with really large font for easy reading).

 

Good news: McClellan said he's writing another trilogy, set on the same planet as the first one and with the same magic systems, but 10 years later and in a different part of the world. Sounds like no crossover characters are planned at this point. He said readers should be able to start with either trilogy and move to the other one without a problem. He's contracted to publish 1 book per year, and plans to continue self-publishing short stories and novellas on the side, in addition to the books published by Orbit.

He's really nice to meet in person.  I met him at a signing for Promise of Blood at the B & N in Mentor.  I wish I could have made it to that signing yesterday.  I saw a sign for it at the Middlefield library and it sounded cool. 

I think the change is better.

It's really weird that it was changed tho. If this forum weren't so PC I'd say it is Copulated-up to change it. But whatever I can hang. Hopefully with a more reasonable amount of time to crank out the future books this will not happen again.

Will the audiobooks be changed?

I thought it was entertaining.  Not great but good.   Lightbringer is very good.

Right, Malazan. It is similar, I suppose - though only partially. The Thousand Names is much more army-centric, while Malazin has more than a few viewpoint characters who are off somewhere. But you know what I like about The Thousand Names? That the people are generally competent. This is present in Malazan and The Black Company, of course, but I haven't read those in a long time, so the impression is fresh in my mind. Yes, there are some goons, but the important characters - on both sides - are generally capable of doing things and thinking on their own. I don't know why this is such a big deal for me - I can't really pinpoint a book I've read recently where this has not been the case (though I also can't pinpoint one where I've consciously noted the characters' competence). 

I'll agree, It's very satisfying that really non of the characters are farmboy rubes.  They are all Takin' Care of Buisness.  The Second Book if really good as well and manages to have a distance feel from The Thousands Names while still maintaining the same cast (plus an awesome addition).  My favorite character is Winter by far.  

I finished Brian McClellan's The Autumn Republic not too long ago. It was an excellent conclusion of The Powder Mage series. There are some - mostly small - things I had problems with, but overall it not only ended well, it ended the series well. 

 

I read The Waking Engine before that, and boy do I wish I felt the same way about it... It may be one of the worst books I have ever read (it is, in fact, the second to last on my Read shelf if I sort them starting with the worst average rating). It had a lot of potential, the writing wasn't bad, the idea was clever, but I think it just failed to deliver somehow. I feel like the book would've worked much better if it was twice as big - or the number of characters that showed up in it was cut in half. At the end, I think the biggest downfall of The Waking Engine was it attempting to squeeze an epic fantasy novel's worth of worldbuilding into a regular novel's size.

 

I am reading Django Wexler's The Thousand Names now, a little over halfway through. It reminds me a little bit of Glen Cook's Black Company series, in the sense that there is a lot of army stuff going on - camps, logistics, weapons, battles, tactics, officers, etc. The differences stop there, I think, though. It was a little confusing at first (for the first 50-70 pages, let's say), because the viewpoint characters don't explain much, and there is much going on, but it picks up from there. I am not a huge fan of battle scenes in books, and this one has more than a few, but overall it's more than bearable. We'll see how I feel when I finish it.

I agree on the Autmun Replubic, It was overall GOOD.  And I'm interested to see more BM.

With The Thousand Names  I had just Read The first Malazan Book before reading it the first time and the similarities between the two are not insignificant.  It actually helped give me a darker and more real sense of dread while reading The Thousand Names.

Man. I can't believe Tom Cruise is in this book!

Looks more Sam Rockwell to me.

Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear looks absolutely awesome.   I'm picking it up from the library today.  I really haven't been a steampunk advocate but I know a good story when I see one.  The first chapter is online and I love her voice right off the bat.  In it she's looking to turn the Hooker with a Heart of Gold trope right on it's head by making the protagonist a marginalized period accurate sex worker, with her own agency and motivations.  Also she apparently has a mech suit sewing machine.

I just finished A Betrayal in Winter, Book 2 in Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet.  Daniel Abraham is awesome.  I don't know what it is about him that I love as a writer, I think it's that he make his writing visceral and personal.  I remember the emotions and flowing prose and feelings more than the actual plot.   But that stuff really sticks with me.  I read 60 -70 books a year and there are many books I give a 4/5 or 5 / 5 , and then looks back and struggle to remember much about after a few months.  His writing really stays with me and it's the interpersonal conflicts , not the actions scenes that stick out.  This is tremendously unique for me.  I've been holding off on starting The Long Price Quartet mostly because I know it was a bit of a failure both domestically and abroad and has gotten a cult following of "mature" readers.  People who exclaim and exhault the beauty of these books by prefacing they are "mature" (mature meaning more for the James Joyce crowd than Michael Bay).   I was hesitant to try it and then not like it and think it's because I'm not sophisticated enough.  But I finally bit the bullet and I love these books. Highly reccomended for someone looking for more complexity than a hack and slash adventure (and I love those too). 

 His Dagger and Coin series which will wrap up this year is excellent as well.  I can go miles deep on that series as well if anyone is interested.

Super stoked for this release. 

We were unpacking books after moving this week and My wife Put Alloy of Law alphabetically first of my hardcopy Brando Sando books... Nonono. You know your a sanderfan when you put your BS books in order of Cosmere Timeline .

This isn't my favorite Brandon Series by far.  I thought Steelheart was fine, and I was mostly not digging this one (especialy all the "metaphors" ..yuck), then the ending. Loved it.  All in all I'd only give this book a 3/5, but from the moment we learn Calamity's true nature to the end of the book was phenomenal in my opinion.