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I read the first one. I bought the second book but haven't had a desire to read it so far, which is unusual for me. I mean, it's been a crazy year with my first teaching job, but I've also found time to read other books since then, so I guess the series just wasn't that compelling to me...

I couldn't get through Eragon. I read quite a bit of it, too, before deciding I didn't ever want to finish. It just didn't interest me. I wanted to care because of the author's story, but I didn't. Maybe it's ironic, but I did always enjoy Amelia Atwater Rhodes growing up. She had a similar...

It's been a while since I read the book, but I do remember liking Raoden. Since I just got the paperback I'm about to reread it though. I will say that I liked the book, but still preferred his Mistborn series, which I read first. I believe I remember reading that Brandon said he connected to...

Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn.

I may be the odd man out here... When I first started reading the series, I loved it. I read it end to end (what there was of it at the time) in a very short period and wanted more. I think it was... just before Pillars of Creation came out? Or just after? I read all the way up through...

Hrathen's trying to convert this country to his religion. His religion is very political and takes over kingdoms it converts. Hrathen's trying to build support among the aristocracy by hinting that if they convert and help spread his religion, they'll be rewarded with political status and the...

Yeah, I do know that. I follow pretty much everything he does -- he's easily my favorite author. I knew it was coming, but if anything that only increases the sense of wonder I get, thinking about how much has gone into his worlds. I think it's funny that what started as a tangent clearly has...

I finished The Alloy of Law yesterday and I'm wondering if anyone else here has read it yet. I was already a huge Sanderson fan (I started with Mistborn and I've loved everything he's written), and I was very happy with this new addition to the world of Mistborn. I love his world building and...

I haven't read the Wheel of Time books myself, and from what I'd heard of it I didn't really want to. Brandon Sanderson is my favorite author, though, so when I heard he'd picked them up, I figured I'd end up reading the series one day.

I just ordered the paperback of Elantris and it arrived with the first cover you linked to. I didn't even know the second existed. Could it be the UK cover art? I'm in America so I pretty much never go to amazon.co.uk. That's the only thing I can think might be causing what you're experiencing...

I love the Mark Twain quote :] I'm going to do a search on my novel and see how many 'very's I find! You know, I don't think I overuse adverbs, but I may be wrong. ETA: I did that search and found 10 instances of 'very' in 14 chapters, but every single instance was a part of the word...

Does anyone have any words they suspect or know they use a lot in their writing? I just put my text through Wordle (which doesn't even pick up the common articles and the like!) and saw that I use the crap out of 'back' for some reason. So that's one example. Anything you can think of in...

Thank you so much, everyone! :]

Every situation is different, and a lot of it can be what other members have said -- not everyone connects with every character. I usually find that I can connect with an extremely diverse cast of personality types if they are written well, though. Something I ran into recently that can...

Has anyone here ever watched A Knight's Tale? (With Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Alan Tudyk, Paul Bettany...) If so, have you watched the Director's Commentary bits? One of them talked at length about the stylistic choice they made in having the characters use very modern speech patterns and...