Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive

Seems the second Stormlight book has a title now: Words of Radiance. Also, the third book will focus on Szeth, and has a working title of Stones Unhallowed.

Fifth is Dalinar's, and may or may not get the title; "The Highprince of War". Fourth Book went conspicuously unmentioned, so it may belong to a character yet to be introduced.

Based on comments Sanderson has dropped on twitter, the buzz on 17th Shard is that book four will focus on Eshonai, aka the Parshendi Sharbearer.

Woo, just noticed this thread. WOK is my favorite book by Sanderson. I've read it twice, which is like reading your average fantasy book about seven times.

So according to facebook, Brandon sometimes just signs random copies of his books in airport bookstores. How awesome is that?

That's pretty kick-ass.

...anybody got a copy of his flight schedules? Just out of curiosity.

Also, who was your favorite character? I'd say Dalinar.

I have to wonder: why is the first Stormlight book in two parts? I've seen longer books in one part, like the Wheel of Time.

What do you mean, two parts? It's one book, divided in five parts, plus prelude, prologue, interludes and epilogue. And it's a thousand and one pages long.

I believe that the British version was published in two volumes. The American version is only in one.

I've seen both in Australia.

I think the epilogue is part of part 5, actually.

Not in my version. Hell of an epilogue, though. Best use of A Storm Is Coming I can think of.

My evidence for it is that Wit is listed with the other POVs on the title page for Part Five. However, the epilogue is listed separately from Part Five in the table of contents. It is odd.

Interestingly there's no "The End of Part Five" (or Four) like there is "The End of Part One/Two/Three" after the last chapters of those parts.

edited 7th Jun '13 10:41:49 PM by Zizoz

Just picked up a copy from my local library. It's the hardcover edition, and I'm fairly certain that I could kill a man with it. And he plans to write 9 more bricks like this? Fuck.

If it helps, it's a really fast read. I finished all 1001 pages of it in the time it took me to read 200 pages of A Feast For Crows.

If it helps, book 2 (Words of Radiance) is set to be somewhat shorter (shorter being relative here- Amazon still has it as over 800 pages).

It's well worth the read. It may be a brick, but it's made of solid gold (metaphorically).

Once all ten are out, I'll planning to drop them all in large cities and create massive earthquakes.

This will guarantee that I become a famous supervillain.

I will wear one under my jacket for a bulletproof vest.
Here's a pretty interesting article on how the spren indirectly advanced medical development on Roshar.

Thanks. And the reread is great.

edited 25th Jun '13 12:47:23 PM by Ninety

Seems you need to include the http://, like this.

Tor.com is also doing a reread; it's up to Chapter 17 so far.

edited 25th Jun '13 11:33:06 AM by Zizoz

Finished it a few days ago. It was pretty good, though it dragged in places. The Kaladin flashbacks were kinda bad for the pacing and a few of them felt unnecessary. There is enough mystery and unresolved plot that I'd read the next book for sure.

One of the Szeth interludes shows that it's possible to Lash something to an arbitrary direction rather than an object, which is neat. If neither Szeth nor Kaladin end up flying by falling with style at some point, I will be disappointed.

The Radiants did that, remember? And I recommend the reread, they have some very good points about the flashbacks.

I love the fact that there are characters in there that are unnamed and will probably play a major role later. Its just the matter of figuring out who they are.

To be honest, I'm less concerned about unnamed or barely mentioned characters barring the Parshendi shardbearer and more concerned with those things that Shallan saw in her sketches.