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Brandon Sanderson / Re: A Memory of Light
« on: January 13, 2009, 08:09:09 PM »
Rand dies, IMO, because the saying was "To live you must die." I take that to mean if the Dark One wins, he will destroy the Wheel, and if Rand dies in an attempt to beat the Dark One (and wins) he will have the opertunity to be woven back into the thread again in the future.

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Howard Tayler / Re: Schlock Mercenary arrives at TWG!
« on: January 12, 2009, 11:20:00 PM »
Ssssooooo, what you're saying is...we no longer have to worship you from afar?

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Dan Wells / Re: Buy Dan Bacon?
« on: January 12, 2009, 11:16:29 PM »
Quote from: SarahG on January 12, 2009, 08:51:55 PM
I think he should get (and sell) custom-designed bacon-themed signed bookplates.

Or just sign some of those band-aids that look like bacon, for people to stick in their books.

Bacon strip bookmarks?  :)

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Reading Excuses / Re: 1-12-09 Aspirations
« on: January 12, 2009, 07:52:48 PM »
I haven't read it yet, but I have to say, Necro, I was in the middle of reading Chapters 1-15 before you sent this one out. Now it will take me another day before I'm finished  :P

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Movies and TV / Re: Push - the Movie
« on: January 12, 2009, 07:09:57 PM »
Quote from: mtlhddoc2 on January 12, 2009, 07:05:40 PM
Quote from: maxonennis on January 09, 2009, 04:58:23 AM
Quote from: Loud_G on January 07, 2009, 06:09:20 PM
I haven't seen the movie yet, but to me it seems more a copy of the TV show 'Heroes' than anything relating to 'Mistborn'.

And Heroes is a cheep copy of the X-men lol! So I guess it's all fair. :D

Actually, I always thought Heroes was a DIRECT ripoff of "The 4400", which in turn, borrowed many ideas from Taken and, yup, the X-Men (which is also a rip off of Superman and other early comics)

The first uses of the random genetic mutation concept giving superpowers with a large cast of characters, that I know of, was X-men.

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Writing Group / Re: The Decline of Reading
« on: January 09, 2009, 11:52:39 PM »
My mind can't even wrap around the idea of someone not reading more than a single novel a year. I'm on the lowest budget of anyone I know, but I still cheack out books from the library and buy one every once in awhile. Maybe it's because I can't really afford to do anything else while most others have more money, but still.  :-\

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Dan Wells / Re: Buy Dan Bacon?
« on: January 09, 2009, 10:31:18 PM »
I'm not a crazy enough fan yet to have him sign a piece of bacon and then eat it. That would just be weird   :-X

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Reading Excuses / Re: Jan 5th, 2009 - Birthright - Chapter 2
« on: January 09, 2009, 04:26:06 PM »
Quote from: Dangerbutton on January 09, 2009, 06:42:41 AM

Okay, I'll go ahead and let you all know right now that the boy mentioned in the prologue is not the main character. He will be a very important one, but Boone is the main character.

That's what I thought, but I wanted some comframation.

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Dan Wells / Re: Buy Dan Bacon?
« on: January 09, 2009, 04:24:46 PM »


I'd put it forever in the freezer...or maybe just keep the package and continuelly spray it with bacon scented spray.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: If you were the author, which direction would you take the Mistborn series?
« on: January 09, 2009, 05:18:59 AM »
If I had come up with Mistborn it would've been a series of stand-alone novels depicting a band of theives on big jobs, not an epic trilogy. I probably would've kept it smiple and had Kelsier as lead, focusing on the characters instead of plot. As for the future, I wouldn't even go there.

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Movies and TV / Re: Push - the Movie
« on: January 09, 2009, 04:58:23 AM »
Quote from: Loud_G on January 07, 2009, 06:09:20 PM
I haven't seen the movie yet, but to me it seems more a copy of the TV show 'Heroes' than anything relating to 'Mistborn'.

And Heroes is a cheep copy of the X-men lol! So I guess it's all fair. :D

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Wow, does Mr. Sanderson like -born or what?
« on: January 09, 2009, 04:56:35 AM »
Something must be wrong with it, because when I downloaded the audio version it was over an hour long.

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Dan Wells / Re: Buy Dan Bacon?
« on: January 09, 2009, 03:41:28 AM »
Fell, when you go on book tour, would you sign a package of bacon for me? The idea just hit me. It would be a memory to last a lifetime.

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Reading Excuses / Re: Jan 5th, 2009 - Birthright - Chapter 2
« on: January 09, 2009, 02:08:15 AM »
I read all three of your chapters in one (the prologue and the first two chapters), and reading it as such, the story makes quite a bit of sense, so this is more of a berief review of all three in one. I read all the critiques on your chapters as well so I would know what was already said.

I was hooked almost from the start of the story, very fast passed, and very involving for me as a reader.

Throughout you have the tendency to uses awkward phrasing, and sentences every few pages. They aren’t really numerous, but every once in a while you write something that sounds like it should be in third person omniscient rather than limited and it throws me out of the story.

However, my biggest complaint is that I had assumed that the boy who the men in the prologue were looking for would be the main character and so far it doesn’t seem that way. That in and of itself isn’t a complaint, but the fact that if he is as I suspect, then he probably should’ve been introduced in at least the second chapter—on one waits past chapter three for the introduction to the main character.

All in all it is a very entertaining story so far.

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Reading Excuses / Re: Granite Sunrise
« on: January 05, 2009, 07:38:40 PM »
I’m back after a long Christmas break—actually I’m back from Christmas break, and a few weeks with no computer (it crashed and I had to buy a new one). I see I have about a million submissions to look through, so I’ll be brief.

I really enjoyed this story…perhaps I enjoy violence too much, but anyway. This was a really fast-pasted chapter; I feel it many have been too fast. I still know nothing about who Dahael is as a person.

Also, I know that this is supposed to be a warrior society, and thus the grim outlook on death, but I think the snide comments while Dahael was burying Vale was a bit much. I would tend to think it would be the opposite with Dahael holding a dead warrior in reverie rather than giving tongue and cheek remarks about his death, especially when the man died fighting someone of lower rank at their request—from what I understand Vale had nothing to gain from this, and everything to lose. I’ll be back soon with a critique (if it this can even be called one) for chapter one.

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