Brandon Sanderson

Well, he can't read, so he's gotta get his amusement from somewhere, when not hitting people with an oversized sword.

I just finished reading Warbreaker. Great book.

My Kindle version is weird though. It has annotations linked on the start/end of every chapter, which gets annoying. It's also riddled with typos and weird formatting.

Also...something went wrong I think. There was a baffling Reveal that didn't actually exist. Near the end of the book, Vasher has been captured and Denth tossed Nightblood into the sea. When Vivenna finds Nightblood the sword explains that 'Denth' is actually named Treledees, meaning the mercenary was the high priest of the God King all along. Except for that he isn't, they're two different characters and they're in two places at the same time.

No idea what happened there. It got me thumbing through earlier chapters trying to reconcile a plot twist that didn't happen.

edited 14th Apr '14 1:36:25 PM by Rotpar

I did find that strange/confusing too. I think that perhaps the implication is that since Denth and Vasher are Returned and were thus likely worshiped as gods at some point, to the end that the High Priest of the religion was named after that deity/Denth. So, it would be like having a priest named Peter as well as St. Peter in a story.

edited 14th Apr '14 1:42:59 PM by Hodor

Denth's real name, iirc, is Vara Treledees, not just Treledees. Since he was one of the Five Scholars and a famous historical personage, I'd figure that the High Priest was named after him and there is not a deeper connection.

edited 14th Apr '14 1:44:46 PM by MasterGhandalf

I thought that was a given name / surname thing, part of why I was confused. That would make sense. Though the situation is still being told that Bob is really Peter when there's a character named Pete.

Like I said, my copy is badly edited. Either Sanderson had no editor or something went wrong with this e-book.

edited 14th Apr '14 1:56:04 PM by Rotpar

I have the annotated version. It's a Red Herring.

Something's wrong. I've read Warbreaker a couple times and never noticed any typos.

Brandon Sanderson is scheduled to be a Guest of Honor at Minicon 50, Easter weekend 2015, in Bloomington, Minnesota. Fans from the surrounding area might want to consider attending. We also have scheduled Larry Niven and Jane Yolen.

Firefight, sequel to Steelheart, is out. I haven't got it yet, though. We should probably have split the page by books before this, but I suppose it's too short to be worth the effort. Maybe we can at least soft-split it.

Already? That was fast, it hasn't been eight months since Steelheart. Gonna get it as soon as I get home.

Nope, sorry, my mistake. Misread the damn website—they had the release date hidden in a corner. It's January 6th next year.

Huh? Everything I checked lists the release date as January 6th, 2015.

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edited 5th May '14 8:47:50 AM by NativeJovian

Ah, well. My reading schedule continues unperturbed, then.

Hmm. So we'll probably get Rithmatist 2 in mid-2015, and then the third Stormlight Archive mid-2016, is my guess...

Just finished The Rithmatist. Good book, very interesting setting, slightly bland protagonist. Too much setup and focus on mysteries that were never revealed. It's a book that you can see was written with a much greater focus on being the first step to a story than an interest in standing on its own.

That is a problem Sanderson has been having lately, but that book probably has the worst of it. For The Stormlight Archive, for example, lots of hints are dropped as to the nature of this, that, and the other thing, fueling tons of speculation. For The Rithmatist, we don't really have enough context to even guess. What's a Forgotten Shadow? Who knows; wait for the next book.

I did love that major twist at the end, with the Jerk with a Heart of Gold teacher who turns out to be pretty much the exact opposite.

Just finished Elantris. It's...hard to describe, but...

I TOTALLY loved it! My local bookstore has The Emperor's Soul for sale. Is it worth it?

Yes. Yes. You must read The Emperor's Soul, especially if you loved Elantris. The Emperor's Soul won a Hugo Award, and it's just damn good.

Also, just wait until The Stormlight Archive.

Yes. Yesyesyes.

So it seems Sanderson's unpublished Cosmere novel White Sand will be made into a series of graphic novels, starting next year.

edited 29th May '14 7:00:07 PM by beorc

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Coolio.

HAH! It's the prequel to the Alcatraz series! What Alcatraz broke was Adonalsium!

White Sand isn't coming out until next year? I was hoping that since it was a comic, he'd be able to do it faster, but I suppose that doesn't actually make sense. Even if his part is over relatively quickly (and there's no guarantee that it will be), drawing everything is still extremely time consuming.

Wait, I thought Khriss was the main character of White Sand? A bit disappointed by that, but hopefully she'll still be prominent. Also, maybe we'll finally learn why Baon (Blunt from The Stormlight Archive) thought that there might be something to the magic fish.

Looking forward to this.