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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2006, 12:59:38 PM »
Well if it makes you feel any better the guy has 12 reviews and he either gives the book 1 star or 5 stars and he seams to loath any books with a romance.
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2006, 01:05:13 PM »
Where?  Give us a link.

Edit: Ah.  Amazon, I'm assuming.

I just read it.  I wouldn't worry about it.  I read a couple of his other reviews and he apparently doesn't like fantasy (or anything that's not pretentious literary edginess).
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2006, 01:14:44 PM »
He also lives in Draper which is well with-in rage of Skar being able to deal with this guy during his lunch-break.
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2006, 01:58:07 PM »
That would be a most excellent reveiw if you were to get one from Neil Gaiman. Hmmmm.... I wonder what he's up to lately anyways...
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2006, 08:11:42 PM »
In reference to the one star review:

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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2006, 11:21:57 PM »
The guy obviously wasn't paying attention to character motivations. Dropped plot point? Puhleeze...
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #21 on: May 27, 2006, 01:46:10 PM »
I reported the review and it got deleted. :)

I had no problem with the majority of this particular review--I just don't agree with the reviewer's opinion--but I thought the stuff that was just blatantly wrong was worth objecting to, so I did.
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #22 on: May 29, 2006, 05:03:46 AM »
lol.  Wow, Ookla.  I didn't even notice your post here until I saw that the review had disappeared.  

Doesn't change the fact that my book, unfortunately, completely miss-fired with that reader.  I still wish I could talk to them and see what exactly they thought I'd messed up plot-wise.  

Anyway, that sure does clean things up nicely for the paperback release tomorrow.  Thanks!

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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #23 on: May 29, 2006, 05:06:21 AM »
I'm surpised Amazon would remove that, yes it was negative but it was still better written then 90% of the positive reviews.
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #24 on: May 30, 2006, 03:11:48 PM »
I'm surprised as well. I suggested to them that they move it down further in the queue, which is something their reviews guidelines page says can happen.
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #25 on: June 06, 2006, 08:14:34 PM »
Well, review number two is out.  Sprig, you can commence laughing.  Romantic Times gave me another 4.5 stars (which, oddly, is their highest possible score.)  Once again, I'm their fantasy top pick.
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #26 on: June 06, 2006, 08:36:47 PM »
I'm telling you there should be a "Brandon Sanderson romance edition" of your books with Fabio on the cover.
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #27 on: June 07, 2006, 12:47:26 AM »
This means you have something in common with Lois McMaster Bujold!
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #28 on: June 07, 2006, 02:14:19 AM »
That reminds me of something, Ookla.  I've heard from several people now (one of them was you, I think) that Tokyopop wants to do original mangas.  

I can't remember.  Did I ever ask you if you thought they might be interested in doing a graphic novel version of an already in-print novel, ala Mistborn?  For a while, I've thought that a graphic novel version of the book would be quite cool.  
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Re: MISTBORN Reviews
« Reply #29 on: June 07, 2006, 11:58:19 AM »
That could be very cool.
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