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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 13, 2009, 07:27:48 PM »
Is that a heron-mark light-sabre?!!  How did one so young come by it?  Surely it is not his own.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 12, 2009, 06:05:56 AM »
Speaking of the land....  I was thinking back over the series as I was waiting for TGS to come out and remembered "with this sign he will conquer"  Rand stood on an ancient symbol of the aes sedi when he killed the darkhounds in ruidean. 

Anyway.  The east and north are supposed to be united as well as the west and south.  it kind of makes a big yin yang symbol out of Rand land.  Curious anyway.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Magic Systems
« on: November 10, 2009, 04:23:56 AM »
Champion,

Do you have a story to tell within that version of the future?  I'd read it.

~fodder

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Magic Systems
« on: November 09, 2009, 05:40:21 PM »
Crazy science fiction based magic.  Some previous entity or culture setup guardian technology (think "memory of earth') that enforces a magic system in a more primitive society.  The trouble is that the bad guy (or simply misunderstood) was able to interfere with the system causing it to change magic systems once a week.

Great fun because you can use all the magic systems from your favorite books in one go. 

This is far in the future and our hero has to ransack a library to discover which magic system is in effect and how to use it.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 01, 2009, 07:06:55 PM »
Min's injuries came days before Semirhage  got BF'ed.  With the amount of power Rand used she may have been burnt back a day or two but not back as far as Min's injuries.  Brandon and Team Jordan got the right of it.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Thanks, Brandon...
« on: October 31, 2009, 08:29:16 PM »
Ditto.  It is going to be a long year.  But better that than a long two years.  Looking forward to way of kings as well. 

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Peter you are right.  It is there.  The full context is "Tear it up. Burn it."  Rand is referring to the picture of himself at Falme.  He literally wants Moraine to burn it.  It is not being used as an expression.  That is funny that it is in there though.  I did not stop to think of other contexts.

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Site News / Re: Introduce yourself - right on!
« on: October 31, 2009, 04:51:47 PM »
A fine hello to the rare forum denizen who reads the introductions thread.

I have a real name when not hiding behind the screen, but you may call me 'fodder; for fodder I am.  Be it fodder for coding or reading or writing or lazing.  I am quiet good at lazing. 

I am an engineer / mathematician who likes rockets and books.  It is not too much of a stretch to think that I might like books about rockets.  Indeed I do. 

I am writing a book, by which I mean that I am hacking at my keyboard, which is my way of saying I should be hacking on my keyboard, therefore implying that I am not really hacking and thus not really writing a book.

I am joining this site with the hope that my future waste of time will more "official" and that any and all questions regarding the status of my book can be met with a more apt excuse.

Thank-you and good day,

'Fodder

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Thanks for the read!

My very first impressions were a roll of the eyes.  Everything was a bit off and a touch goofy.   I agree with the poster above that Brandon was over the top with Mat.  I'll throw in Thom for good measure.  The problem was that they talked too much.  Such as Thom saying something like "I wouldn't be surprised to find Olver in my saddle bag.  He really wanted to come!"  The first part is fine but the second is obvious. 

Other than that..... Awesome.. just pure awesome.  The story is all Robert Jordan and the execution by Sanderson brilliant.

Once our lovable stand-in hit his stride I could not tear my eyes away.  The entire second half of the book just rolled.  The ending was perhaps the most satisfying of any of the series so far.  In years past each book had sections that I dutifully plowed through to get to more interesting things.  Not so here.  Every thread was relevant and I NEEDED to collect the information presented.

The part with Verin?  Awesome.. I cried.  The wheel of time has never got me to do that before.  I'm a 30 year old guy.  The only other book to make me cry was "Hero of ages"  Coincidence?  No Ta'veren.

Oh and one last note, before I go off and waste my day wistfully pondering the delight I have beheld; you can burn them and you can burn me, but you can't burn it.  That one pulled me out of my suspended disbelief more than anything else.  I don't think RJ EVER used the phrase "burn it" and I don't think it fits the language of the era.

Keep on keeping on

With much much respect,

Daniel

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