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Post by UC Sora Jea on Nov 10, 2009 23:58:28 GMT
Or pick a day and sit down in the bookstore and read it!
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Post by M-G Corki on Nov 12, 2009 18:13:10 GMT
That is what I usually do when a book I want to read comes out in hardback....but not all day, just dips here and there when I pass a bookstore with it in! lol!
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Post by UC Sora Jea on Nov 12, 2009 18:34:17 GMT
lol how sneaky!
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Post by Paladin Jon the Direwolf on Nov 13, 2009 11:20:21 GMT
That's the way to do it, while waiting for that nice paperback copy to come out. ;D
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Post by Sir Imperium on Nov 13, 2009 11:35:51 GMT
I for once bought the hardback as I didn't want to wait....
It now sticks out like a sore thumb on my bookshelf with the paperbacks of all the other versions.
Am now about 2/3rds of the way through Mistborn as I thought it was about time to read some of Sanderson's own books.
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Post by Sora el Nyn on Nov 13, 2009 17:05:28 GMT
I prefer hardbacks because a) I can't wait and b) given how much I read those books, the hardbacks last a lot longer.
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Post by mottlee on Nov 13, 2009 18:34:31 GMT
well see as i live in a remote community and it will take ages if i buy it online i will have to wait 4 weeks till i go back to civilisation before i buy it and then i'm going to have to read the whole series again cause i haven't read it for like 11 months cause my books have been in storage so it's gonna be a while till i actually read it.
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Post by F Horn of Valere on Nov 13, 2009 18:42:03 GMT
When book 2 is published I will begin my reread so that I will finish book 2 around when book 3 comes out. I am 3/4 through TGS right now, and have come to the conclusion that it is just as frustrating as others in the series... but that isn't a bad thing! Whereas in a couple of the other books (CoT) there would be massive action, 30 chapters of boring-but-needed-for-the-plotline fluff, then awesomeness to close it off... in TGS, it is good non-stop. The only thing frustrating me is he keeps on leaving us at cliffhangers with one plotline, and before resolving it, jumps to the other ones for a lot of chapters before going back! grrrr!!! But wow... this is a well-done conclusion! My other other annoyance is in the dedication. Sanderson dedicated it to someone, which is fine, but I have a problem with that he did not either a) also dedicate it to RJ, or b) have RJ posthumously dedicate it to Harriet.
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Post by Sora el Nyn on Nov 13, 2009 21:42:05 GMT
I think Brandon plans to dedicate the very last book to RJ and Harriet. Not confirmed but I've heard bits and pieces that seem to indicate that.
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Post by F Horn of Valere on Nov 13, 2009 22:17:03 GMT
still, it would have been nice if RJ was credited with one for Harriet. This is the only book to date which is not.
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Post by Sir Imperium on Nov 13, 2009 23:07:11 GMT
I don't re read books that often as in the main I try and buy complete series now before I start reading them - so paperbacks are usually fine for me.
Did get the Black Magicians Guild series in hardback for 58p more than the paperbacks cost from the same retailer (I love Amazon)
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Post by F Horn of Valere on Nov 14, 2009 8:34:33 GMT
just finished it, and WOW.... moved past KoD as my fav book of the series!!!
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Post by Sir Imperium on Nov 14, 2009 19:50:09 GMT
i still prefer the earlier ones. Don't know which i wud choose out of them though
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Post by Cumadrin on Nov 15, 2009 1:58:01 GMT
considering i couldn't find a birthday thread anywhere (i didn't look particularly hard though, maybe i missed it) yet this thread was started on it and is about the topic i wish to talk about otherwise, i've decided to more than likely make this thread my brief home as i hunker down to chat with old friends and new strangers with whom i share a common love.
i got TGS yesterday in the mail as a late birthday present and have been reading it non-stop since yesterday afternoon (not at my old break-neck pace, but hey, i'm rusty at reading, and want to savor this anyway).
i'm currently on page 525, in the middle of a Mat chapter, and what he just said spurred me to go find someone who would know what the hell i was talking about to grumble slightly about to. so naturally i came here, of course!
i won't make any spoilers, but from the first chapter from a perspective of an old character, i definitely could tell it was not RJ writing these words. although they were similar! and they were entertaining. they were fresh. so they were ok. i think i might be a little insulted if Sanderson tried to mimic RJ completely anyway.
i just wanted to say, though the differences are stark, to me, i am enjoying the book, and despite not having RJ's own words, i'm grateful to have the story, and applaud Sanderson for taking up the torch. i'm sure the real meat of the story is there, what matter to me if it's described differently? i'll admit i was apprehensive before picking up the book, but i look forward to the last two volumes (or sengemts of the last volume, however you look at it) eagerly.
IMO Sanderson is doing an excellent job, i'd pat him on the back if i could.
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Post by F Horn of Valere on Nov 15, 2009 2:23:17 GMT
yeah... there were three distinctly non-RJ moments that bothered me, but the rest were ok. Twice he mentioned "d@mnation, when that seems less of a WOT word... RJ purposefully had his own parallel vocabulary for that type of thing. Also, similarly, "Hydrangeas." Again, he purposefully had his own invented vocabulary (e.g. Tobac instead of Tobacco, or Forkroot, etc)
Apart from those two which I believe are more of a foresight than a writing style, I loved it, and even with those still give Sanderson two thumbs up. Couldn't have chosen someone better.
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