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Started by Slargos, October 01, 2009, 03:15:35 PM

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Slargos

tor.com has first and second chapter out as previews.

Totally radical.


jimmy olsen

Quote from: Slargos on October 01, 2009, 03:15:35 PM
tor.com has first and second chapter out as previews.

Totally radical.

Indeed, I bought the prologue for 2.99 as well. My faith in Sanderson seems well placed. Not that I'm surprised, I've enjoyed his own novels after all.

You should probably note Slargos that this is book 12 of The Wheel of Time.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Slargos

Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 01, 2009, 03:17:28 PM
Quote from: Slargos on October 01, 2009, 03:15:35 PM
tor.com has first and second chapter out as previews.

Totally radical.

Indeed, I bought the prologue for 2.99 as well. My faith in Sanderson seems well placed. Not that I'm surprised, I've enjoyed his own novels after all.

You should probably note Slargos that this is book 12 of The Wheel of Time.

Yeah.

I got back on the Jordan train a few months back when I picked up the audiobooks which managed to rekindle my love for the series. Quite good timing too.

I'm eager to see what Sanderson does with it, but from what little I read his style is not going to be mistaken for Jordan's.

ulmont

Quote from: Slargos on October 01, 2009, 03:15:35 PM
tor.com has first and second chapter out as previews.

Totally radical.

Can you link to the second chapter?  All I see is the audiobook version.

jimmy olsen

Quote from: ulmont on October 01, 2009, 03:39:21 PM
Quote from: Slargos on October 01, 2009, 03:15:35 PM
tor.com has first and second chapter out as previews.

Totally radical.

Can you link to the second chapter?  All I see is the audiobook version.
Transcript written by someone with too much time on their hands.

It's an Egwene chapter set right after her last chapter in Knife of Dreams.
http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dcjspjqg_483cz5fssfz&revision=_latest
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
1 Karma Chameleon point

Agelastus

I bought Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy to get some idea of how his writing would compare to Jordan's.

[DOWN GRUMBLER, DOWN BOY]

From the evidence of that trilogy, I think he'll do a sterling job. In some ways, it may even turn out better than if Jordan alone had written it; Jordan's insistence that it would all wrap up in one book left me feeling that the ending would be rushed. Sanderson's had to split "Memory of Light" into three novels, so I really don't think "rushed" will be one of the adjectives applied to his work.
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 01, 2009, 03:17:28 PM
You should probably note Slargos that this is book 12 of The Wheel of Time.

Pretty weak.  Churchill was not known for his parsimony but still managed to fit the entire Gathering Storm in his first volume.
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Darth Wagtaros

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on October 01, 2009, 05:30:27 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 01, 2009, 03:17:28 PM
You should probably note Slargos that this is book 12 of The Wheel of Time.

Pretty weak.  Churchill was not known for his parsimony but still managed to fit the entire Gathering Storm in his first volume.
Heh. 
PDH!

Grallon

This chapter was more interesting than many of Jordan's previous books.  He should have called upon someone else to write for him long before he croaked.



G.
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Darth Wagtaros

I made the mistake of turning that on at work and immediately had Egwene thinking abotu how red her ass is after having been spanked.  Fucksake. 
PDH!

Agelastus

On a slightly different note, "Unseen Academicals" is out!!!! :w00t:
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Fireblade

I thought this was going to be about the rising tide of darkies/muslims invading Slargos's beloved, fair, ivory white Sweden.

Leaving disappointed. :(

Darth Wagtaros

Quote from: Agelastus on October 01, 2009, 06:50:02 PM
On a slightly different note, "Unseen Academicals" is out!!!! :w00t:
Discworld????!
PDH!

Slargos

Quote from: Fireblade on October 01, 2009, 08:08:58 PM
I thought this was going to be about the rising tide of darkies/muslims invading Slargos's beloved, fair, ivory white Sweden.

Leaving disappointed. :(

That's still a work in progress. :ph34r:

grumbler

Quote from: Agelastus on October 01, 2009, 05:14:39 PM
I bought Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy to get some idea of how his writing would compare to Jordan's.

[DOWN GRUMBLER, DOWN BOY]
:huh: WTF?  I have never expressed an opinion on Sanderson, whose works I have not read.

I think you have confused me with someone else.
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