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We've all read the explanations stating that books 12, 13, and 14 are all to be considered volumes in a larger book, but really, nobody is going to look at it that way.  it's like the Lord of the Rings: it's one tale told in six books, called The Lord of the Rings.

nobody knows of or remembers the subtitles of the six books, nor do most people see the series as one whole as a single volume.

people just know that the first book in the trilogy is Fellowship, the second is Towers, and the third is Return.  of course, what they call "fellowship of the ring" is really volumes 1 and 2 of the single book lord of the Rings, but that's not the way people think of it.

so to the main point of the post: Tarmon Gaidon is the tentative title for book 14.

can we please, please use the title that Robert Jordan originally planned for the last book: "A Memory of Light"

It's a great title, and if you leave it as the supertitle (? is that the opposite of subtitle?) of the final "Book with three volumes", nobody is ever going to use it.

I just can't imagine a conversation with someone where I call one of the final books "AMoL:TG" or "AMoL:GS"


lastly, it doesn't follow the naming scheme at all.
the _ of _
Gathering Storm I can live with, because at least we have Great Hunt and Dragon Reborn in that scheme as well...

And as a final note aside from the obvious of wanting to avoid using made-up words as fantasy titles (which does absolutely nothing to help common perceptions of the genre, all of the other titles had a certain... poetry to them.
Crossroads of Twilight is one of my favorite titles, Crown of Swords, Knife of Dreams, Fires of Heaven.

A Memory of Light <-perfect title.

in short: nobody's going to remember that the last three books are all going to be part of the same volume called "A Memory of Light" with subtitles, they're just going to call it by the name that distinguishes it from the others.

I don't know if "A Memory of Light: the Gathering Storm" is still on the title page of book 12, but I can't imagine it's gone to print yet, so there's still time to take it off.

Please abandon your subtitles approach to the final trilogy, and end the series with the title that RJ wanted!

OK, the cast is one thing, but what about the rest of the staff?

Has anyone here seen the movie The Fall?

Whoever is responsible for making that movie one of the best looking things I have ever seen needs to be in some way involved in the art direction of Warbreaker.

surreal, fantastic, and colorful, it's the perfect visual comparison to the way T'Telir needs to look

here:
http://thefallthemovie.com/
take a look at the gallery.
there are scenes that take place in 1920's California, and scenes that take place in a fantasy story one of the characters tells, as imagined by the little girl he tells it to.

Quote from: AGrey on June 12, 2009, 06:46:06 AM

no, this would be the B&N in Evanston, IL 

Yea, Illinois bookstores aren't too up to date on any of Brandon's books.
I went to Border's first and they said there copies weren't in yet and they were only getting 6.
Then I went to Barnes and Noble and they had them all with Brandon's other books. I was hoping for a convenient display. Maybe I'll build one and sneak it in there once I'm back in the country...

there's one thing that can fix that...

A visit from the big B.S. himself!

c'mon, Brandon: visit our city!

I have introduced as many people as i can lend the books to to him. <--- commence with gramar mocking.

I have introduced him to all the people to which the books can be lent

?

does that work?

Ok, reading warbreaker, and I would like to nominate Neil Patrick Harris to play Lightsong when a movie is made of this book.

Anyone have any other ideas for good actors for these characters?

That is not surprising if you went to Walden in the Pocatello mall.  Their selection usually sucks.  Idaho Falls Barnes and Noble had about 150 copies when I bought mine on Tuesday.

Also one of the employees there said EUOL will be doing a signing there 20 June.  Can anyone confirm this??  Oolka?

no, this would be the B&N in Evanston, IL 

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that there are no plans to do a signing here anytime soon?

I was working in a library when Elantris first came out, and got bored behind the desk, so I took a copy out of the returns dump and started reading.

I checked it out for myself at the end of the day, and bought a copy for myself the next weekend.

I still have that copy, and it's so smudged and battered, I want to get myself another copy that looks nice for the bookshelf.


as soon as i get a bookshelf to put it on... 

I've also been a WOT fan since around winter's heart released

you can imagine my joy when I found out my second favorite author would be stepping in to fill the shoes of my favorite author