/lit/ - Literature

>>15798187
WoR and then Oathbringer were the largest physical single volumes Tor had ever produced, even.

>>14535818
Move over cockgoblin.

>>14419899
>Shallan
Dropped the books because of her. Have no clue what Sanderson is trying to do with her but at this point I don't particularly care. Liked the series primarily for Kaladin and Bridge Four antics but now he's intertwined with her and to nobody's surprise has become a boring character as a result. I might pick them up further down the road when the series is finished or close to being finished.

>>12455565
THE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH
MARTIAN TIME-SLIP
TIME OUT OF JOINT
Ubik was my second Dick and I feel I need to reread it at some point because I read Dick completely different now. VALIS was my first and that felt completely different to most everything Dick I've read so far

I am enjoying ASD - I have gotten to Bob taking the boys out to replace the mcguffin while his house gets wired. I have a question though as I am having a tough time figuring out Bob: he's an actual recreational "doper" as his real identity, yes? Just to clarify that, what a double life.

>>10868888
quads confirm! based! save mistborn for last and stormlight for first, because stormlight is great and mistborn fucking sucks

*unbuttons safehand*

>>7970687
>Although that idea isn't as rare as you think it might be
I didn't mean to imply that, if I did. Coldfire was just the first example I thought of in that context. There is even Death Gate Cycle's magic system being based on possibilities, which I thought was pretty cool.

How is the overall Coldfire trilogy, specifically the second and third books? I enjoyed the first book--perhaps a hair above-average in personal taste--but I felt like it took a lot to get through the book and I'm not sure why. Maybe the pacing was slow? Although there WAS a lot of stuff happening. I did like the way Friedman described emotions involving any character or concept and definitely think that she probably does that in one of the best ways in which I have read. A part of me wants to read your spoiler and overall, not bother with the last two books--mainly due to an already-huge backlog--but the other part of me wants to keep it as a surprise.

Yeah, apparently Spren were around before the Shattering too (Seons on Sel are basically the same thing too, iirc, just a different form of spren). Guess we'll see where those ultimately lead up to.

>>7538227
I thought his citations and scientific background for why he included what he included was mag fuckin' neto. Then again, I am in academia so it is personally interesting to me.

>>6355968
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