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Just remember that those books are not canon.

The other released cosmere stories (all canon) are Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell and Sixth of the Dusk. Shadows is available in the anthology Dangerous Women by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, Sixth is in the Writing Excuses anthology. I agree that anthologies are expensive, so what I do is buy the ebook (I normally buy hard copies) and just read the whole thing to make it worth the money. They are usually a good way to sample new authors as well.

Wow. We have basically the exact same taste in music. And I totally agree about albums. It is sad where the modern music scene has gone. I'm going to add to the great list above, The Bends, Kid A, and In Rainbows, all by Radiohead. I honestly love all their albums, but those three and OK Computer are their best. Also The King is Dead by the Decemberists, if you're into folk rock. And any album by Arcade Fire is pretty darned awesome. I will add as well Wilco. Another band for whom I love all their albums, I would say Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is a good starting point. (It is their most acclaimed and most popular.) If you don't like that, you may still like their others. Summerteeth is amazing, as is The Whole Love. But seriously, try any of their albums. They are all wonderfully different and all excellent IMHO.

Except if Mraize is the recipient then he is a dragon... And that doesn't make much sense.

I got to see it yesterday, and let me tell you, it is everything you expect it to be and more. It is hilarious. The characters are great. The action is amazing. The effects are killer. The story is engaging. It is extremely heartfelt. Basically everything about the movie is nearly perfect. The audience applauded at least thrice during the movie, as well as at the end. Rest assured, any reservations you have, the movie is excellent in every way. And now the three-year wait for the sequel.

I guess there will be something like that. I just don't like the sound of the title, regardless. It is far less majestic than The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear.

Ok. Am I the only one who actually really dislikes The Doors of Stone as the title for Day 3? I feel like it has much too literal and too unpoetic a meaning for the title of a Rothfuss book. The first two books and the Auri novella's titles are just so much more majestic and I feel like they (well, we don't know about Auri's yet, but it's a good guess) have such depth of meaning to the stories. Yes, the Doors of Stone are very significant to the plot, but I feel like so far they just don't have the same depth or level of significance to them as the titles of the first two books. Is this just me being picky, or does this bother others as well? (The title particularly bothers me because Brandon has said he will change the title of Stormlight 3 if Pat gets his book out first. Stones Unhallowed is so poetic that it would be a shame if Brandon had to change it to something as bland as the Skybreaker he has proposed. If Pat keeps DoS as the title, I could end up with two books from my favorite authors with bat titles.)

Well, I think you can all guess who I think is better.

I don't know; SfSitFoH is pretty bad.

*cough* *cough* TSRoST *cough* *cough*

I haven't heard any real hints yet, and I read Pat's blog, follow him on Facebook and read his Twitter feed, so I am pretty sure there aren't yet. The thing is that he agonizes so much over all of the phrasings and word choice that it takes him forever to write a book. Plus, he did the Bast story for Rogues and TSRoST, which have definitely taken up a ton of his writing time. And Worldbuilders. I would be surprised if we saw Day 3 before late 2015 if not 2016. But Pat could step up the pace now that he is back on track. But I doubt it.

Oh, Felurian...

Sorry, I can't really help you with this; I can't really think of any that haven't been mentioned that are sex-free. Definitely try Wheel if Time if you are not opposed to a couple of definite off-screen instances. "A bit", he says. I think you might be under exaggerating the amount in book two a bit.

It's not that the plot is bad, I just personally don't find it to be great. It is definitely somewhat on the generic side, i.e. "Boy's parents die, he vows to find out about and destroy their killers", plus the whole magic school thing. Kid goes there, is great, makes a mortal enemy, etc. And I never really enjoyed the plot points around Kvothe's financial issues. And as LeftInch said, the side plots and side plots of side plots and side plots of side plots of side plots and so on of WMF can get a bit annoying. And also the fact that neither book has a really solid plot resolution. What I really mean to point out is that Kingkiller neither possesses or is about the tight plotting that an appreciator Brandon's books likes. There are still some great aspects of the plot, however it is the characters, the characterization, the prose, Rothfuss's sense of the "shape" of a story and his world that make his books amazing.

I agree; part of what makes Rothfuss's writing so amazing is the fact that it can be so poetic while simultaneously being almost totally transparent. He has the perfect balance between functional prose (à la Brandon, existing only to convey ideas, though he is becoming a little more poetic) and purple. Rothfuss's writing is flowery in all senses of the word. It is majestic. It radiates beauty. But it is not excessively beautiful; you will never notice a lot of the nuance of his writing if you're not looking for it. Rothfuss is one of the few writers whose writing I can sit down and just let flow over me. It is not over or under descriptive. It has a literally perfect rhythm (and I do not use "literally" unless I mean literally). I could go on and on, but I think you get the point now, Quiver. I love Pat's books, and there is a group here who are nearly as dedicated to him as we are to Brandon. (Yes, Swimmingly, Argent and I are among them. Look back in this thread and it be pretty easy to tell.) However, I have to admit that Rothfuss's books are not perfect either. His worldbuilding is nearly on par with Brandon's, true, but his plotting is not the strongest. Rothfuss can tell a darned good story, and he can tell it well, but the plot itself often leave a bit to be desired. But plot is not nearly as important to Kingkiller as it is to most other fantasy novels. Pat focuses on story, not plot, if you understand what I mean. So if you are ready to be taken on a literary journey, step into the Waystone Inn and listen to Kvothe's tale. But if you just want to be taken away by a fascinating plot, you may want to reconsider. But I suggest you read the books. You shouldn't regret it.

So Pat said this in his blog post yesterday if you missed it: So that's pretty cool. I like calling the world Temerant about ten thousand times more than saying "the Kingliller world" or "the Four Corners world".

I don't think the term "Stormblessed" is a normal thing, given the fact that Kaladin is annoyed at whoever told the name to the Bridge crew. If it were a generally commonly known term, then it would not be so bothersome to Kaladin and it wouldn't be terribly notable for him to be given the name. Plus, he refers to it as a nickname, which indicates that it is specific to him.

I have this strange obsession that in order to have truly read a book I must have read every single word in it. This means that I read title pages, acknowledgements, copyright pages, etc.; any reading material provided by the book. So yes, I do read acknowledgements. Usually they are either short or entertaining in their own right (citing Brandon's) and sometimes they are a combination of both.

I'll be the first to say that I have not read terribly extensively through the genre, only because I am a slow reader, but I usually refer to Best Fantasy Books, which is a great resource for every genre of fantasy. They have explanations of pretty much every subgenre you can think of, and many of them have Top 25 lists. The site is mostly written by a few people, but there are crowd-ranked lists if you wish to get the more general consensus. Since you seem to like epic fantasy, I would suggest starting with the Top 25 Best Fantasy Books list and the Top 50 Best Epic Fantasy Series list. You will find much of what is suggested by other Sharders as well as so much more. Edit: fixed a typo and added a word

I really enjoyed RG. I don't know exactly where to place it. I definitely found it better than book 5. I liked the way Erikson portrayed the Letherii much better in RG. There were also a lot of great characters in this one. I love how Erikson can keep the reader guessing until the very end without the endings being dei ex machina. Very few of RG's endings were anything like I expected them to be, yet all were appropriately set up. I eagerly await the final volumes, though I am going to begin tackling Esslemont's contributions very soon.

Welcome to the forums, Syleena! Good catch, and I agree, I hope that does not turn out to foreshadow Kaladin's return to Hearthstone. Our Kaladin needs no more distress in his life.

My attitude at this point is that it will be cool if/when the game is released, but not to get too exited for it. If you have no anticipation, you can't be disappointed. It would be cool if Brandon were to release the story he wrote for it if the game is ever officially scrapped, though.

It can also be read here.