Timewaster's Guide Archive

I hope ebooks never overtake hardcovers. Like I said in my prior post, I hope ebooks never becomes a primary or dominant method. Only a second option, but used less overall than buying hardcovers.

So you're going to make a WoK sandwich and hope the middle one gets flat?

 

Basically, yes. I mean I'm not going to get 3 WoK books if that's what you meant, but put enough weight on the book to flatten the pages out. I've done it before and it worked, in the situation I mentioned in an earlier post.

But, I am hoping the pages will already be straight and won't have to worry about it.

Yeah, wouldn't have occurred to me, either, until I saw it here. I'm only about 20 minutes, tops, from the signing. But that's still 40 minutes (there and back). Still too far.

Haven't played Magic in at least a couple years. And the most recent cards in my decks are from sets around 7-8 yrs old. I think the most recent card sets I have is Scourge or Onlsaught.  lol  If I play him, he'll kill me. But I'll have fun dying.   

Well yeah, I figured it was off site as you were relegated to being outside at that point. But was he talking about challenging people who were at the signing? Or was it not clear?

I hope e-books only becomes a second option for people, and never the dominant or primary method. I guess I am old fashioned, bu I will always prefer a good harcover or paperback to an electonic screen.

Ok, so I was right at first, Raoden was adding the chasm line. But again, that does not make sense. If Raoden added the chasm line (with the stick) through Elantris, it would make sense. Because as you said, Elantris was unchanged and did not have the chasm going through it.

But from at least how I read it, Raoden started the near the pool, which was not inside of Elantris (right outside the wall from how I understood it), and then ran all the way to Kae. Which then brings up the point, the chasm should have already been there as it would have already been created from the earthquake as the path he ran was not inside of Elantris and would not have been unchanged.

I thought it was AonDor? I could swear when I heard Raoden talking about it, he always said it with both (Aon and Dor). I could be wrong.

But as for the first question, yes, I understand that the earthquake cause the chasm. But that is my confusion, when the earthquake happened, and the chasm opened up, it changed the lands geography and therefore changed the shapes for the Dor.

But it is Raoden’s solution that is puzzling. From how I read it (and also reading Brandon’s annotation), he drew the stick in the ground to represent the chasm so the geography matched the change and therefore the Dor was fully accessible.

However, I thought it was the chasm in the first place that made the change to the geography? Why would Raoden need to add it (with the stick)? This is where I am getting confused.

As for the other two questions, glad I am not the only one who is not sure on those answers or noticed they were not answered.

I will have to take a look at “The Hope of Elantris”.  Thanks.

Once again, MAJOR SPOILERS below. Stop now if you have not read Elantris.





Well, last night I finally finished Elantris. And I will say I really enjoyed it. However, I do have some questions.

The solution. Raoden draws the chasm line with the stick in the dirt (from the pool near Elantris down to Kae) to complete the picture so the AonDor is completely open and accessible. Correct?

My question is, isn’t that a bit of redundancy? I mean wasn’t the AonDor cut off originally because of the chasm? Why would Raoden need to draw something that already had happened (the chasm forming)? I am probably missing something, but why I am throwing this question here.

Second question. As Brandon even says in his annotations section, Elantris is the source of the AonDor. But I had thought the Elantrians (however many years back it may have been) created Elantris and doing so in using the AonDor. If Elantris ‘powers’ the AonDor, how could the city have been built in the first place?

Third question, closure. I may have missed it, but what happened with some of the other ‘new’ Elantrians?  Taan? Can’t remember his name, but the one who did all the cleaning. I remember reading that they were ‘dead’ when the monks attacked, but as we know, it’s very hard for Elantrians truly to die. So were they brought back when Raoden completed the restoration of the AonDor? Or did they true die? And if that is the case, I would think they earned a spot for their own funeral, as Saolin and Katara had earned.

And just to clarify, not bringing all these questions up in being critical of the book, I did truly enjoy it, but was left with these questions that I had to ask.  Lol

Now I am going to take a bit of a break and move onto the first Alcatraz book. Should take me a night, two at the most.