If you have to call someone "my friend" three times in a couple of minutes, he isn't.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 28/09/2012 11:59:13 AM
Sanderson's Dialogue Sucks Trolloc balls .
I understand why TV shows have characters call each other "bro" or "sis" or "son" or "cousin" in the pilot episode. The need to establish the relationship between two characters is necessary, and for some reason, everyone is terrified of doing it any other way than a natural conversation, that sounds UNnatural with people using terms no one uses in conversation anymore. However, when two characters who were best friends in the first book of a series are talking in the fourteenth book, there is no need to use verbal cues to establish that they are friends to the casual reader who flips open the book in a store.
Sometimes when I re-read a book, I try to imagine having stopped reading the series at some arbitrary earlier part, and then try to imagine what reading, say, tPoD is like when you stopped at tDR and have no awareness of tSR through aCoS. Now I'm trying to imagine the reader who read aMoL ch 1 and was inspired to pick up EotW and his impressions thereof.
I understand why TV shows have characters call each other "bro" or "sis" or "son" or "cousin" in the pilot episode. The need to establish the relationship between two characters is necessary, and for some reason, everyone is terrified of doing it any other way than a natural conversation, that sounds UNnatural with people using terms no one uses in conversation anymore. However, when two characters who were best friends in the first book of a series are talking in the fourteenth book, there is no need to use verbal cues to establish that they are friends to the casual reader who flips open the book in a store.
Sometimes when I re-read a book, I try to imagine having stopped reading the series at some arbitrary earlier part, and then try to imagine what reading, say, tPoD is like when you stopped at tDR and have no awareness of tSR through aCoS. Now I'm trying to imagine the reader who read aMoL ch 1 and was inspired to pick up EotW and his impressions thereof.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
If you have to call someone "my friend" three times in a couple of minutes, he isn't.
28/09/2012 11:59:13 AM
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The only people I've ever heard say "my friend" are foreign street vendors
28/09/2012 01:19:00 PM
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Sanderson's handling of character interractions is pathetic....
28/09/2012 06:43:48 PM
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Now see, here I don't fully agree, or at least think it's a matter of taste.
28/09/2012 07:21:09 PM
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Sorry, that's just not true...
28/09/2012 11:33:59 PM
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I posted something very similar at DM. Reposting...
28/09/2012 11:46:07 PM
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I complained about this regarding the Forsaken chapter
28/09/2012 07:34:25 PM
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I've long since accepted that Sanderson uses inaccurate terms like "powerful"
29/09/2012 05:44:11 AM
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To be fair, the last Moghedian PoV by RJ might have changed her a bit.
29/09/2012 03:27:31 PM
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Yes. The last time it happened to me it ended with the taxi driver fined by the NYPD.
29/09/2012 07:05:26 AM
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The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this...
29/09/2012 08:50:50 AM
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Piggybacking on someone else's established characters and near-climax-point plot?
29/09/2012 03:04:03 PM
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Both of you disgust me
29/09/2012 04:13:16 PM
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To be fair...
29/09/2012 04:36:52 PM
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True ... He may not be perfect, and he certainly made some strange choices
29/09/2012 05:37:29 PM
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B-Sand is not a ghost writer
29/09/2012 06:35:16 PM
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Didn't say he should.
29/09/2012 09:07:45 PM
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What is it you want?
29/09/2012 09:39:36 PM
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We want to bitch about an inferior product. Duh.
29/09/2012 10:00:09 PM
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Hmm that's true I guess. Sad though *NM*
29/09/2012 10:07:25 PM
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It is what it is
30/09/2012 12:52:20 AM
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You do know this isn't his series, right?
29/09/2012 04:19:00 PM
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Do you see us going to Mistborn boards to rip his series? Part of the problem is what you say.
29/09/2012 09:57:54 PM
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Apologies for not being clear: I'm only referring to WoT. Haven't read any of his other work...
30/09/2012 06:56:08 PM
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I'd agree that I like his original works more than his WoT books
01/10/2012 06:17:33 PM
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It's fairly simple....
30/09/2012 09:55:52 PM
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Thanks for that insightful response...
30/09/2012 10:37:27 PM
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Try reading something instead of judging. I recommend the Mistborn trilogy *NM*
01/10/2012 01:14:24 AM
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It's more...
01/10/2012 01:05:18 PM
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Re: The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this...
11/10/2012 08:22:27 PM
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I have an acquaintance who uses "my friend" as punctuation of every sentence.
05/10/2012 02:47:40 PM
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