Brandon Sanderson

You know AMOL came out already, right? Or did you have a trauma-induced flashback just now?

I'm taking forever to read it, and I'm kind of on hold from reading other stuff while finishing it. The "Last Battle" chapter must be like a hundred pages.

More.

UK Oathbringer cover. It looks awesome, but Szeth looks too androgynous. I seriously thought it was a woman for a moment.

Are you sure that's supposed to be Szeth? He's supposed to be bald, no?

I thought it was Jasnah...

Regardless, I'm not really a fan of the cover. I prefer the U.S. version that was revealed a while ago. Much more evocative. This one just looks like a person of indeterminate gender and race menacingly holding a sword.

edited 27th Jul '17 3:56:22 PM by GutstheBerserker

Now that you mention it, you have a point. The sword even looks like Jasnah's on the other cover. The black color scheme just made me think it was Nightblood.

My point stands about it being too confusing.

Sword looks like a leaf. And yeah, Szeth is about the last person I'd think that was.

Out of all the Sanderson books Stormlight is the only series where I get the US versions instead.

Partly because they look super cool, and partly because they get broken up into 2 books here for some reason.

More reasonable binding? A similar thing happened with A Wheel of Time, as I recall.

Hey, so starting next week Tuesday, Tor will be posting 3 chapters Oathbringer every week to read online. And that's pretty neat.

http://www.tor.com/2017/08/15/brandon-sanderson-oathbringer-serialization-announcement/

That means we should have thirty-three chapters out by the time the book releases. It says a lot about the length that they're willing to publish all of that.

yusssssss

So happy!!!!!! With the lack of Dresden Files the past few years, I really need my book fix more than ever! It's really great when the only complaints you have about a box series are 'It's so big you need to get it in ebook so that you don't break your back' and 'it's so tightly plotted you can't write fanfiction about it because there's no room to fit in anything'.

edited 16th Aug '17 5:26:54 PM by SCMof2814

Mmm, that's true.

I've never bothered to search out any fanfic for this series, cause I always felt if would be just so inferior to the actual books.

Also wow! 33 chapters!

I wonder how long it'l take until we get the Hearthstone chapters.

I figure they're probably pretty early in the book, from the sample we already got.

Unless Brandon pulls a fast one of us, and Kaladin doesn't get page-time until the second part of the book.

Started my eighth or ninth or whatever reread of Stormlight. Going slow, so should be done just in time for Oathbringer to come out. Keep getting distracted by how hard it would be to do the series in live action, though. Shallan especially. She spends like ninety percent of the book lying to absolutely everyone, so it's hard to figure out how to show any of that without a terrible voice over. Maybe flashbacks to planning things with her brothers would cover some of it, but still not everything.

Stormlight's just such a fun series to reread.

I've only done so once so far, but I'll certainly do so again once I'm done with Oathbringer.

in my head, they do it by giving her Obvious Villain cues, and making the POV Jasnah.

Shallan: "Mind if I take a look a that Soulcaster?" *Strokes goatee*.

Also after the alleyway scene she gets super impressed and enamored with Jasnah and decides she needs to steal the Soulcaster to impress senpai

...I think I slipped into anime tropes there.

The absolute second we get a live-action Stormlight, someone needs to photoshop Shallan with a goatee.

I still think animation is absolutely the better route to go for any Stormlight adaptation.

Preferably Studio Mir. And run by the guys who did Korra and are currently doing Voltron.

The Oathbringer prologue is out.

Don't forget to keep spoilers marked.

Eshonai's perspective at Gavilar's assassination. Gavilar was definitely getting visions, but he twisted them with his religious extremism. Nice choice, Stormfather. And the Parshendi might have been led to Szeth by Odium or one of his servants. That seems odd. Wouldn't he have preferred that Gavilar kick off the Desolation as soon as possible? Unless he was able to see the future enough to know that giving Szeth to the Parshendi would eventually put him in the hands of the Diagram, who would use him to destabilize the world.

Whoops, forgot about the other thread. I guess we should stick to that one.

edited 22nd Aug '17 7:44:50 AM by Discar

Re:Stormlight live-action adaptation,

I still have serious doubts that any studio could really do it justice. It would be a massive undertaking in terms of production (recreating Roshar's unique geography) , budget (all the CGI, set dressing and costumrs) and casting (hiring a mostly east-asian cast).

I just don't see it happening in any way that could satisfy book readers.

It's true that animation would be the best way to go. Hopefully the ones responsible for adapting SA see reason.

Going back to the Oathbringer chapter, I really liked it. It's yet another interesting perspective on what is probably the defining event of the whole series.

edited 22nd Aug '17 11:12:35 PM by GutstheBerserker

Not since Frasier and Niles Crane has a dinner party had so many different things go wrong.