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Post by Cumadrin on Nov 15, 2009 18:20:30 GMT
there were a lot of things for me (finished about 3:30 am last night). but i couldn't, nor should i, have expected it to be too much like RJ himself. i saw something in nearly every paragraph; or sometimes, it's what i didn't see, but overall i'm still very happy.
to try to use a metaphor, it was like seeing a new cast of actors start the last season on my favorite tv show (more than that, though, to me; do you think it's weird the imaginary voices for every character in my head changed?). and they were doing it with a new team of writers. they were both good, the new is not the original, but it's good in its own, fresh way.
a positive i took out of this was not noticing the differences and feeling alienated or something, but instead thinking to myself 'i know how that would've went coming from RJ, i'm glad Sanderson was respectful enough not to try to mimic him, as he said in the foreward.' every difference i noticed was a reminder how much i feel connected to RJ and this story through his writing, and how much i'll miss him, rather than a point of insult a lesser fan might see it as. and i'm kinda proud i can see it that way.
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Post by Magnus Canis Rufus on Nov 18, 2009 20:07:59 GMT
I finished it Last night and I liked the new voices in my head........ I mean the new voice of the book in my head.....
the book was good. Seriously I thought that he did a really good job the speed of the book was great having been so long between updates to the story. It was like catching up with long lost friends i knew who they all were but they were a bit different then I remembered but at the core I still knew them through and through.
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