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DF Spoilers / Re: NOT FAIR!!!!!!
« on: July 16, 2020, 05:43:57 AM »
Wow, really? Sorry if this is heresy here, but I actually like him a bit more than Jim, though I do love Jim a lot. But Sanderson's Cosmere is just the most impressive bit of world building I have ever come across in my life. It almost blows Tolkien out of the water in terms of its depth and attention to detail.

Every one of his books is set in the same universe, the magic is different and follows different rules on each of his worlds, because God split itself into 16 different shards, each being an aspect of its 'personality' with the magic in the world being related to the shard that ended up on that world. In Mistborn there were 2 shards, Preservation and Ruin, 2 diametrically opposed shards that cause the conflict through their fighting. In the Stormlight series there were originally 2 shards, Cultivation and Honor, but Honor was shattered by the Shard that basically got all the negative emotions of God, called Odium, who has been trying to destroy the Shards for some reason.

There is a network of short stories and novellas, 11 novels (can't remember the exact amount right now. 6 I think in the Mistborn series, 3 with the 4th on the way in the Stormlight series, Elantris, and War breaker. I think that is all of them.) and a series of graphic novels. There is also some unpublished stuff in Brigham Young University library that isn't very good, according to Sanderson, because it is the first stuff he wrote, but fills in more gaps in the cosmology of the universe.

I would highly recommend giving it another shot, and/or visiting the fan site called The Coppermind where sleuths do much the same stuff as here, and try to put the pieces together.
Edit - correcting some of my comma splicing. Sorry.

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DF Books / Re: Just finished reading Peace Talks
« on: July 16, 2020, 03:29:14 AM »
I'm tempted to wait until Battle Ground is out and read them together. Don't know if I can wait that long, but we'll see...
This is definitely the better way to do it. It is a single book, divided into 2 parts.

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DF Spoilers / Re: NOT FAIR!!!!!!
« on: July 16, 2020, 03:16:52 AM »
Yeah, Battle Ground doesn't deserve to be it's own book, but Peace Talks part 2 would have broken the naming convention. I definitely would have been annoyed at the ending of I'd had to wait 2 more months. 😝

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DF Books / Re: Finding a legit seller of peace talks digital version
« on: July 15, 2020, 09:53:04 PM »
Back in the dark ages when I worked for Borders, we had a partnership with Kobo, and you could download stuff from them direct. They also pioneered the E-Ink screens that the Kindle Paperwhite uses now. Dunno if they still exist, though.

Edit - Did a quick Google search. Yep they still exist, and yep they have Peace Talks.

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DF Spoilers / Re: NOT FAIR!!!!!!
« on: July 15, 2020, 09:00:09 PM »
Hey, I've been working in the book industry for 32 years and can give you some insights into what is probably going on.

Penguin Books, the publisher, has run out of copies.  There is a huge paper shortage in the US right now, cause by Corona and Trumps trade deals, which is making it much harder to physically print things right now.  My guess would be that Amazon ran out of copies, reordered from Penguin, and Penguin doesn't have any more, and has decided to delay a bit to allocate their supplies of paper to other new books before doing a second print run of Peace Talks.

Depending on where you are in the United States, if you have an independent bookstore near you, I would recommend going to them.  Most Indies order from a distributor called Ingram Books, and they still have copies left in most of their US warehouses. If you go there they could order you a copy and have it within a couple of days.
Otherwise, I would guess you're out of luck till October.

Amazon cuts their profits so fine, that the 5 or so % difference in their cost from ordering from Ingram vs direct from Penguin would make them unable to ever order from them, but Indies can't operate that way, so they would be happy to do it for you.

Edit- Though Amazon currently says they have it in stock, so not sure what the heck is going on there...
Edit again - Now when I checked Penguin again, it is listed as back in stock. Probably why you guys got notifications that you are getting it after all.

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The Bar / New Far Side Cartoons!
« on: July 09, 2020, 06:01:39 PM »
Just putting this here in case anyone hadn't yet noticed that Gary Larson has a digital tablet, and is occasionally drawing new cartoons. No schedule, no deadlines, but every now and then, when he feels like it. Check out the website for the full story, in his own words, and see the first 3 new cartoons in about 15 years.

https://www.thefarside.com/

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DF Books / Re: Just re-read the entire series
« on: July 09, 2020, 02:51:29 AM »
Yeah, anything about Maggie is much more poignant to me now, and Harry's chains of decisions that he keeps talking himself into just make me groan. Not because they are unbelievable, just because his decisions made sense to me when I was younger, now I just shake my head at how dumb I used to be. 😁

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DF Spoilers / Re: Battle Ground out in September
« on: July 08, 2020, 10:13:54 PM »
What you said, only might I recommend your local Independent Bookstore instead. Indies are still fighting the good fight, and we are always happy to talk to you about whatever you are reading.
Not that I'm biased or anything.
Or worried that if I stop working at my indie I might lose access to Edelweiss, and thus not be able to read books months early...  8)

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DF Books / Re: Just re-read the entire series
« on: July 08, 2020, 03:07:09 AM »
Apparently I'm the only one... Let me just say, 20 years more experience, and a child, makes me want to smack younger Harry on the back of the head, and sympathize with older Harry more. But also sympathize with McCoy more.  ;D
I'd like to revisit this after Peace Talks so we can discuss the effect the 5 year hiatus has had on Harry's personality.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Battle Ground out in September
« on: July 07, 2020, 05:11:53 AM »
Everybody is.  ;D The books are definitely the best thing that happen this year.

The bar is set pretty low this year...

 :P

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DF Spoilers / Re: Battle Ground out in September
« on: July 07, 2020, 04:57:41 AM »
God I'm so desperate for all you guys to read 'em so I can talk about em to someone. But it's gonna be the end of September till I can do that. My head is gonna explode! :-P

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DF Spoilers / Re: Battle Ground out in September
« on: July 05, 2020, 08:03:11 PM »
Whoops. Of course you all knew that.  ;D Heh, should have checked first.

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DF Books / Just re-read the entire series
« on: July 05, 2020, 08:01:30 PM »
Just wondering if anyone else just did an entire re-read in preparation for Peace Talks. I got an ARC of Peace Talks, and decided that before I read it, I would re-read the entire series, and it was such a different experience for me. When I started the Dresden files I was in my late 20s, un-married, no kids. Now I am married, have a daughter, and in a totally different place in my life. Just wondering who else had a more recent re-read that maybe felt quite different from the first time.

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DF Spoilers / Battle Ground out in September
« on: July 05, 2020, 07:32:53 PM »
Hey, haven't posted in a (very long) while, but I just though I would let you know that in case you didn't know, the next Dresden files after Peace Talks, Battle Ground, will be out in September. Which means double your Dresden fun this year.  ;D
Can't wait for you guys to read them so I can talk to someone about them.  :-X

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Yeah, I think the presence of technology is essential.  Without it, you have a classic fantasy set in a city.  The Hawk and Fisher books by Simon Green, and Cook's series about the private investigator that I can't currently think of the name of.  They are gritty storis set in an urban setting, but they are not really urban fantasy.

It does not have to be modern day tech, however.  Lillity Saintcrow's Dante Valentine series is an Urban fantasy set in the future.

Just my 2 bits worth.

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