Smokestone

On 6/30/2016 at 7:17 AM, Kingsdaughter613 said:

I am a graphic novel reader and I enjoyed it. You really can't read it like a novel though. Graphic novels are all about the images (or should be.)

I think this one suffers from the awareness that this was prose first. The words are telling as much of the story as the images. Some of my favourite graphic novels have entire pages without words because the image is telling the whole story. The first page really annoyed me because of that. DON'T give me a verbal description of the sand. It takes away from the image. The wind comment was extraneous. If there is wind show me! (I honestly think a better intro would have shown us the sands of Dayside, a brief glimpse of nightside, and a full double page spread of Taldain in space between two stars.) 

The art style does work, but isn't my favorite. We'll see if they stick with the same artist throughout. These books often switch and I'd like to see more styles.

All in all this was a good fun read. I did prefer the prose, but that had less to do with this being a graphic novel and more that this wasn't handled as well as it could have been. It felt like they were trying to squash a novel into a graphic novel, instead of letting it BE a graphic novel. Which is a pity, because then it could have been a great book instead of a decent one.

This ^^.

I enjoy both comics and graphic novels, they can be really powerful ways to tell interesting stories. (My favorite is easily lackadaisy.foxprints.com, I highly recommend it!) This one was intriguing, but felt like a rocky start, because there's just too many words, too many plotlines, too abrupt of transitions, not enough reason to care, for me at least. I haven't read the prose version and I don't plan on it...and to me, this work really doesn't hold up by itself. I'll certainly read the next two volumes when they come out, but I won't be so quick to buy them.

There once was a half-skaa named Vin

Who discovered that she could burn tin

When Luthadel burned

She further discerned

That her actual foe was Ru-in.

That said, people have brought this up in the discussion before me, but I'd like to hear: what are the specific ways you think Robert Jordan pioneered the future of epic fantasy? Here are a few, in my opinion:

-Mixing laws of modern physics with laws of magic

-Types of magic with "hard" rule sets: the reader knows exactly what tools a magic-wielding character can or can't access (rather than the Gandalf-type magic, where we really have no idea what he is and isn't capable of, it's all shrouded in mystery)

-"Strong female leads" (I put this in quotes because I don't really like the way Jordan executed this concept, but it was clearly his intent) as well as exploration of gender roles and politics

-the role of fate and prophecy: while the future initially appears to be set in stone, it may be affected by human choice

Any others that stick out to you?

Bahaha, my favorite moment of the whole series was when Perrin totally owns Egwene in Tel-aran-riod or however it's spelled. Wipe that smug condescension off her face.

Playing the nice guy is fine as an opener, but at some point you have to take the risk and ask her out. It hurts to get shut down, but there are a number of clear advantages to having the conversation in the open. Like, if she can tell you've been meaning to ask her out for a long time (if you've spent a lot of time around her, she probably suspects already) she probably will appreciate you saying so. Either 1) she wants to go out with you or 2) she doesn't, but either way it clears the air. If you never ask, you'll never know.

Have you read The Name of the Wind (there are a bunch of Patrick Rothfuss fans here, I know, so I'm guessing you might have)? Kvothe is super awesome in so many ways, but he totally has the Nice Guy problem with Denna - he's just afraid to commit. All his friends can see how obvious it is that he's infatuated with her and that she digs him too, but he has difficulty confronting reality and just going for it, and his life would change enormously if he did.

So yeah. Bravery, I say! Ask her on a date.

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SLC, by the U of U mostly

I would like to join the squee thread.  Recently received in the mail the following UT licence plate:

STORMIT

In the immortal words of Rebecca Black, "we so excited."

(be sure and say hi or something if you spot us on the road!)

Hey, also a newbie to the forums here, though a longtime Sanderson fan...the original Mistborn trilogy remains my favorite of his works so far (the ending of The Hero of Ages brought me close to tears...that doesn't happen to me much in fantasy novels), but I've certainly had fun with the rest of the canon.  And of course, Kaladin is a stud.