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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #75 on: July 06, 2004, 08:38:34 PM »
Yep, I'll at least be there, and Brenna probably will too.
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #76 on: July 07, 2004, 12:03:36 AM »
I've gotten through the first 3 chapters so far. Good read.
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« Reply #77 on: July 07, 2004, 12:43:30 AM »
yeah, I was able to sell it on ebay for $5. I should start my own publishing company.
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #78 on: July 13, 2004, 11:24:45 AM »
*Paging EUOL*

Do you want to meet sometime so I can provide some feeback on Mistborn Book 1? I never got around to taking the survey.
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #79 on: July 13, 2004, 04:33:28 PM »
Hum.  Yes, I'll stop by your apartment sometime.  I want to see about getting a map from 42 as well.  
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #80 on: July 13, 2004, 11:17:53 PM »
Alright, I got to Section Two a while ago and haven't picked it up for a bit.  I got distracted by something, although I can't remember what now....  Anyway, maybe I will read some tonight and try to get it done by Sunday.

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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #81 on: July 13, 2004, 11:20:55 PM »
That would be great.  So far, Stacer is the only one to get back to me--though, 42 apparently finished the book in paper form and passed it on.
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #82 on: July 15, 2004, 02:38:43 AM »
I...was grossly negligent in my duty, and didn't feel like taking notes my first time through. But I did finish it and enjoyed it thoroughly. Then Anime Expo came up...then I got a cold...now the weather is really hot (and I'm not quite over my cold)...and I have another book to lay out (.hack volume 3) starting tomorrow, and next week is Comic-Con, so...argh. I should have just done it right the first time. Hopefully I'll be able to get to it soon.
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #83 on: July 15, 2004, 06:21:16 AM »
Amongst Brandon-books how does it rank, Ookla?  And, how do you think it compares to the original MISTBORN?
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #84 on: July 15, 2004, 01:12:32 PM »
Okay, I'm into part three a little bit, and my computer ate my homework... actually, my sister deleted it.  So I don't have any notes, but I didn't have anything major to say other than "Great" anyway... I'll see what I can do to revive them from my memory...
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #85 on: July 16, 2004, 02:01:06 AM »
Wow.  Uh, just reached chapter twenty-one in my edit, and the prose there is pretty rough.  Sorry about that, folks.  

Oh, and Gorgon:  bummer about your sister, but whatever you can give me will help.  I hope to hear your reaction to the whole book soon!
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #86 on: July 16, 2004, 02:45:07 AM »
speaking as one who enjoyed the old Mistborn well enough...the new one blows it out of the water.

How does it compare among Brandon books? It's tight. Definitely the tightest of your long books. In most other categories it compares quite favorably. I'll have to hold off until later though on more.
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #87 on: July 16, 2004, 02:53:18 AM »
If you're going to read it again, you might want to wait for the new revision.  I'm estimating 30k words cut.  Most of them will be little snips here and there--tightening up the language.  Hopefully, most readers wouldn't even notice the edits except to find the book paced just a bit faster and written just a bit more clearly.  I'd be interested to see if you could tell a difference.

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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #88 on: July 16, 2004, 06:25:53 PM »
Are you revising 3 books at once?
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Re: Mistborn Reads
« Reply #89 on: July 16, 2004, 06:27:37 PM »
And prewriting three others.  You can watch my progress on the nifty little book-progress-bar Sprig made for my website!
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