Brandon Sanderson/Cosmere Thread!

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I am extremely uncomfortable with Sex Talk With Syl

If Shallan/Kaladin becomes a Thing I will fucking explode

 

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"WHAT IF DIFFERENT PEOPLE DID THIS. YOU KNOW. JUST. LIKE. WHAT IF."

 

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Adolin has a hackey sack

 

aaaaaaaaaaaa

good book is good

i love my sad children and their equally sad dad.

epic ending moment was epic

more coherent thoughts coming later.

 

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I'm so glad that Dalinar finally got to get in on the catastrophic emotional breakdowns most of the rest of the major viewpoint characters have been having. :::')))

 

Also, one of my favorite things about Oathbringer is how the flashbacks retroactively make everyone's behavior toward Dalinar make so much more sense. Like, Dalinar is going on about THE CODES and HONOR and TRUST and UNITY and Sadeas is over here in the twilight zone because he once watched this guy

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walk out into a highstorm shirtless in the middle of a fancy dinner because his favorite knife was missing, come back in soaking wet, tackle an assassin out of the blue, stab the assassin to death with his own knife, rinse the blood off that knife in his wine, and then start eating his dinner with the knife he just used to stab someone like nothing happened.

 

Like, Sadeas's everything just makes so much sense when you consider that from his perspective

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the guy nobody was even willing to spar with because he goes at anything resembling a fight so hard that he breaks people's spines in friendly wrestling matches, who constantly wants to be at war and drinks himself into a stupor whenever he isn't, who was a terrible husband and worse father and sometimes berserked so hard in battle he killed his own soldiers, showed up to the war of vengeance which he had personally suggested 15 minutes late with Starbucks and a personality transplant. That guy- Mr. "Hey, guy who shot me with the multiple arrows that are currently sticking out of me, if you join my army I won't pillage your town," Mr. "We need to get him some Shards because it's making us look bad that he's killing more people without them than we are with them," Mr. "Literally had an avalanche dropped on him and still managed to kill everyone," Mr. "It's nice how much can be accomplished in both politics and trade by liberally killing the other fellow's soldiers"- is now acting like a Reasonable Authority Figure/everyone's disapproving dad, saying they should stop fighting, demanding everyone be sober and in uniform at all times, and talking excitedly and at length about old books of political philosophy. Like, no wonder everyone thought he was crazy- forget the visions, it was already like if Vlad the Impaler suddenly turned into Don Quixote.

Basically I love it.

 

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otp: dalinar x sleep

But no. Man. Some of these flashbacks, I just can't handle them, although I'm happy not to be tormented by "who the heck was dalinar's wife and what happened to her/him/them" as much anymore.

Also WHEN LIFT???

 

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LIFT MENTION I HOPE THIS MEANS WE GET TO SEE HER SOON

 

She is worth the wait.

 

Nearing the end of The Emperor's Soul. Grandparents bought me copies of Elantris and Way of Kings. I am. Giddy. Still a lot of Arcanum Unbounded to read and then more books after that. Yes. Good.

 

Sounds like you'll be set for a while!

 

Library near me has The Alloy of Law too which is lovely. The second Stormlight book too. So yes. For quite a bit.

 

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Adolin in a fucking 80s prom suit

 

WALK WALK FASHION BABY :::PPP

 

(Best part of that is

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when somebody in the Kholinar guard makes fun of his outfit and Kaladin gets defensive about it. Kaladin/Adolin/Shallan shippers will have so much more fuel after this book.

)

 

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honestly I could almost get behind it myself, despite not being much for shipping. still not finished listening but uhhhhhhh there are definitely a number of moments that made me consider it

 

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what the heck is dalinar's wife's name? Only listening, I can't tell exactly what it's supposed to be and it's driving me to distraction

 

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Evi.

 

Elantris is the Dark Souls of Brandon Sanderson books.