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Dan Brown's best book IMO is Angels and Demons.  I read Da Vinci Code 1st and liked it, but liked the way the story played out better in Angels and Demons (lets be honest, it is the same story with the same main character, just different events in the story).  I started Digital Fortress, and actually got 1/4 to 1/3 into it before I figured out what was going to happen and stopped reading it.  I really despise such heavy handed storytelling.  I felt like I was being smacked over the head with it.  I read for fun and if the book isn't fun, I stop reading.

Having said that, if you want to compare Brandon to another writer (which doesn't work well for so many reasons), why don't you compare him to some one like Orson Scott Card, Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan, or R. A. Salvatore.  They at least write books that are similar in genre (fantasy/sci-fi) to BS.  Dan Brown writes suspense/mystery/conspiracy theory.

Fantastic.  Those Koloss are exactly as I pictured them, except for the color.  I alway saw them as a dark, electric blue.  Very vivid.

From Wilipedia: "Obsidian is a naturally occurring glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock."  Also "Obsidian is used in cardiac surgery, as well-crafted obsidian blades have a cutting edge many times sharper than high-quality steel surgical scalpels, with the edge of the blade being only about 3 nanometres wide [4]. Even the sharpest metal knife has a jagged, irregular blade when viewed under a strong enough microscope. When examined under an electron microscope an obsidian blade is still smooth and even."

Being a natual glass it probably has similar strength/fragility to regular glass.

Really, this isn't actually an important post, but a test to see if HoA figures out that there is hidden text here at the bottom, and if anyone else figures it out. So, HoA, I am now officially outlining our plan to make sure it is clear. First, we pay a time-traveling mistborn a ridiculously large amount of money to steal the Lord Ruler's Atium. Then, we use the massive atium cache to hire him to assassinate VegasDev and Qarlin, as well as several other unnamed contributors to this forum. Then we use the remainder of the cache to hire a master hacker to discover their forum passwords, and then we impersonate them online for the fun of it? Or was it that we hire a master hacker to write a program that will occasionally post things for them so that no one is suspicious of our evil plan? If so, it should definitely post things that are relevant to the conversation, such as why don't you ask Brandon, and I hate you, and cheese is delicious. Just my thoughts on the matter.

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my thoughts exactly

OOOOOOOOOOOPPPs.  Did I give our plan away??

I would have to sayMB but only by a slight margin over Warbreaker.  Once Warbreaker is finished and all edited and stuff, it may surpass MB as my fav.  (Spelling and grammatical errors really get my goat.  A few are almost unavoidable but Warbreaker has tons.  And yes I realize it isn't totally finished.)

And I just wanna be in it. In some way...

Wouldn't that look out of place tho?  You know, a live person in an animated movie.

You say that it is confirmed to be Centrifugal, care to say where??  I looked at EUOL's post when he was talking about it and didn't see anything of the sort.