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oof - that's savage

Oh wow...

@Beemann ya, but the ending isn't that different, according to sources, reliable sources

How they get there will be

I’m kinda glad when I had the chance a few years ago after getting my first kindle to start of Song of Ice and Fire that I instead turned to read Mistborn instead

I’ll read it if Martin manages to finish it before he dies but I’m not entirely sold if he doesn’t. Somewhat similar reason while I’ll never read Wheel of Time atp

I wish I could justify a subscription to audible rn. So many books I want to read but I’ve got so many podcasts to keep up with as is

It's already noticeably different. Some characters in the book are dead, or have come back, or never existed but they do in the show

Like characters were handled differently in seasons 1 and 2. AFAIK GRRM said it'll be different, and some storylines already cannot be the same

Well, everyone is still waiting on Winds of Winter so he better hurry up

Joe Abercrombie shits out a book every year

And they’re fantastic

I just put it out of my sphere of fucks given

And wait on Stormlight Archive

Sanderson is a fucking machine

Ever read the first law trilogy?

I have not

The first two are available on Joe’s YouTube channel in audiobook form

Was referring to ASoIaF wrt fucks given

Oh I'll read the books instead. Can't stand audiobooks

I read them hard copy and while I’ll admit i trudged through the first a bit as soon as I started on the second I couldn’t put it down

I finished book 2 and 3 in the span of a month

He’s about to start a new trilogy this fall and I’m stoked

The guy knows how to write characters and has one of the best narrator voices I’ve ever witnessed

👌

There’s a particular crew of guys by the time I got to the second book I was reading all their lines aloud in unique voices

Lol. Can't say I've done that one before

Also, best thing: Joe doesn’t talk about politics on twitter at all

He’s also a riot on it

Neither have I

Nice

Yeah Sanderson is mostly fine but every so often it feels like a scene was there for diversity points, but it might just be that he genuinely wanted the scene and couldn't smoothly fit it in

Sanderson in my experience suffers from unsmooth character development

I don’t know how much he’s improved since mistborn but Elend and Vin needed another 50 pages of screen time to justify her love for him

Which is part of why I’m actively avoiding a love interest writing the book I am now

Well post Mistborn trilogy Mistborn is eh

Stormlight Archive hasn't been quite so relationship focused but each book is 1k pages so characters have had time to interact

I didn't find Vin and Elend unreasonable though. They're young and impulsive. If anything it would be a question of how long things would last

I liked them together but It never felt more than curiosity about each other with mild interest attached until Brandon straight up let us know in Vin’s thoughts that she was in love.