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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Haven't read WOT - Is it a waste of time to try to read Gathering Storm?
« on: November 16, 2009, 05:34:39 AM »
Yay for differing opinions. In short, you should read the book yourself and then you can decide whether or not you should read the book. Then, if you decide you needn't, powerfully balefire the book, then you had never read it.

Circular reasoning indeed.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 15, 2009, 10:02:30 PM »
Re: Egwene

She has become a leader, and basically her part in the book was demonstrating this. Part of being a leader is making unpleasant decisions that will have an overall healing effect. The rebel Aes Sedai NEEDED some humility so that they could accept the loyalists. Nevermind whether they are right, the Tower needs healing before Tarmon Gaidon (which all buildup seems to suggest is later this afternoon). If the rebels continue to shun the loyalists with the apparent backing of the Amyrlin, it would remain split.

Basically, I'm sure Egwene didn't want to rip out her supporters, but she NEEDED to. Keep in mind Egwene is the sort of sister to give herself penance (probably not that common).

My opinion: Brandon = good job on Egwene.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Gathering Storm - Sanderson should give himself some more credit!
« on: November 14, 2009, 01:25:08 AM »
Quote from: Eerongal on November 13, 2009, 11:33:06 PM
Though I do feel his humble nature is genuine, it's just that doing otherwise could end up being the worst thing he ever does.

You just have to read what he wrote after RJ died (not professionally involved) to know that his response now (professionally involved) is genuine.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Who signed Robert Jordan's name of the Gathering Storm from Sam Wellers?
« on: November 12, 2009, 10:22:27 PM »
The paperback version in New Zealand that I have has a printed signature from RJ.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 12, 2009, 07:04:00 AM »
@wolfstar

As long as they don't start accepting novices based on their midichlorian count, I shall remain happy.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 11, 2009, 09:25:26 PM »
It would seem to me that if Rand's ta'veren thread was starting to fester (for lack of a better word), this would spread to nearby threads, causing all the bad stuff.

As for plants and the whatnot growing, that would seem to be to be a RAFO moment, though the dragonmount scene at the end might give credence to that sort of idea.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Gathering Storm - Sanderson should give himself some more credit!
« on: November 10, 2009, 01:32:42 AM »
I think what Brandon was trying to say was that the fact that it went #1 was due to Robert Jordan, not him.

This is probably true, however:

When ToM goes to #1 I think he would deserve plenty of credit for that.

Brandon has written a brilliant book. However without the Jordan name on it it would probably not have gone #1 (on debut, in any case). This is no slight against his writing, just the way of the world.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 08, 2009, 10:50:05 PM »
I put Mat's change in behaviour down to (and it has been devolping in recent books, just not as stark) his use of cynical sort of humour to deal with the world as it gets more troubling (which it is). I liked Mat in this book, and couldn't give a monkeys if this makes me an 'inferior fan' as ArgentSun put it.

And as for "saidared"... of course it's not part of the usual lexicon of WoT, but Mat has always been different. I think many people seem to think he was seriously using the word 'saidared', but it was just a joke on his part.

I didn't find that it took me out of the book at all.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Haven't read WOT - Is it a waste of time to try to read Gathering Storm?
« on: November 05, 2009, 07:48:52 AM »
Somebody pointed out that the reason the later (8,9,10) books weren't so well recieved is that they were very political. Which is something not many fantasy readers are probably after. Whilst not my favourite books in the series, I liked them and never had trouble reading them. My wife, who is well into political type stories likes that part of the series the best.

As far as reading TGS without the rest of the series... no. Having read TGS now and reading Brandon's accounts through the authoring process, the book is necessarily abrupt and concise, with no long winded lead-back-ins for characters. The series is my favourite though, well worth starting from EotW.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 05, 2009, 01:32:22 AM »
The Semirhage scene seems to be one of the most popular topics here, here are my two theories regarding it.

a) Semirhage was released as the DO wanted her punished, knowing what would happen. Aside from the fact that she was recently "broken" by Cadsuane and might be spilling secrets, it would not seem out of character for the DO.

b) The true power is not actually the power of the DO. The DO's prison was created from it (as has been stipulated before) and as such, it has become tainted by proximity (similar vein to filling hole with Saidin) to such a point that he can manipulate it (and hence 'control' it). Rand is so ta'veren maybe the control slipped. This may also fit with the theory that Lanfear did not 'knowingly' bore open the DO's prison, but this was only my impression from reading it.

These theories do seem kind of contradictory. If the DO didn't control, why release Semi with the collars as punishment (although there is the other reason of Cadsuane)?

Thoughts?

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