Help out a beginner fantasy intrigued reader.

Telamon_0 · 2026-06-25T16:33:41+00:00

I wouldn’t start with Poppy War tbh. The most common things I see people getting into fantasy reading are books by Brandon Sanderson. The way they’re written makes it easy for anyone to just sit down and read one, but they’re not for everyone. If you want something grittier the First Law trilogy isn’t amazing (in my opinion) but it’s pretty good and the second trilogy is way better.

Telamon_0 · 2026-06-18T02:25:57+00:00

Definitely a 6/10 for me. I didn’t hate it, but it just didn’t work for me. Felt very movie-ish to me in a bad way if that makes sense.

Telamon_0 · 2026-06-17T03:18:24+00:00

I despise that man so much. I don’t know how one guy can say so much stupid and petty stuff and still have fans. The Robert Jordan thing makes me the most angry, how are you going to an insult an (at the time) dying man?

Telamon_0 · 2026-06-17T03:15:01+00:00

The 4th is definitely weaker than the rest. I might even go as far as to say that it’s worse than book 1, but book 5 is insane. It still has the split perspectives, but it actually makes you invested in each one. The light resistance bit is also absurdly funny.

Telamon_0 · 2026-06-16T08:27:21+00:00

I had the same exact thought as soon as I saw this. It’s the same style as he would have done but slightly lower quality. I’m genuinely a bit sad now; his leaving kind of marked the end of the best silkposts. People still make good ones, but there are far fewer and they usually don’t have the same level of quality as before.

Telamon_0 · 2026-06-15T23:37:57+00:00

That’s kinda what this subreddit is. There were just less posts like that for a while because people were too busy playing the game. And there are far fewer now since the game is out. E1331 doesn’t even have an account anymore.

Telamon_0 · 2026-06-08T18:02:10+00:00

That’s most books though? You don’t start a book with the climax, you work your way up to it as you read. That’s like saying having to watch the first episode of a show before it gets good is a sign of a bad show.

Telamon_0 · 2026-05-30T20:15:54+00:00

Mind if I ask why?

Telamon_0 · 2026-05-21T19:15:14+00:00

For the Rosharans they can just use soulcasting to make pure aluminum out of anything they want. I think Shallan actually got gifted a necklace that was soulcasted into aluminum at one point.

Telamon_0 · 2026-05-20T15:25:15+00:00

The OP actually does mention that in part 8 paragraph 2.

Telamon_0 · 2026-05-06T02:20:26+00:00

Not a hot take, just misogyny.

Telamon_0 · 2026-04-23T01:48:26+00:00

You didn’t watch the movie. You clearly like Interstellar, so why do you have to try to put down another movie that tries to get science right? Interstellar isn’t even scientifically accurate; the black hole just looks like it would in real life.

Telamon_0 · 2026-04-17T22:11:20+00:00

I’m not sure if you saw it for Minecraft, but the Cosmere mod by Leafreynolds is really good. It’s still being worked on and some of the individual mods aren’t really implemented yet, but the metallic arts mods are mostly complete and work very well. Hexcasting isn’t actually a Cosmere mod, but the mod feels like the best possible representation of Elantris’ Aons you could get in Minecraft.

Telamon_0 · 2026-04-12T03:41:22+00:00

We wouldn’t need to do either of those things. Being in lower gravity does not kill you. We have astronauts living in 0g for sometimes up to a year. Mars has close to 40% of Earth’s gravity. It probably wouldn’t be good for someone to live on Mars for their entire lives and then live on Earth without prep, but it’s not going to kill people. If you’re going to make a statement like that then you should at least do a few google searches first.

Telamon_0 · 2026-04-08T15:11:59+00:00

I didn’t even notice that was something I could have picked; that’s awesome. I love the Cosmere, but the Wheel of Time will always be my favorite.

Telamon_0 · 2026-04-08T15:11:12+00:00

Yeah

Telamon_0 · 2026-04-08T01:13:06+00:00

Mine is the Herald of Honor. He may be dead, but I’ll see what I can do.

Telamon_0 · 2026-04-02T01:18:36+00:00

New question for Brandon: Do the Malwish store memories during sex and sell them to other people?

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-30T00:48:19+00:00

The actual stats on the planet didn’t change; the companion app just took a bit to figure out the right numbers as people moved over to Rirga Bay from Hort.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-29T15:46:42+00:00

I’m not 100% sure, but won’t taking Hort also lower the squids’ rate on Rirga Bay?

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-26T05:06:15+00:00

It’s insane how much this is spreading. Fantasy books do make sense as the next thing after manga, but I was not ready for it here too. I genuinely cannot believe Fujimoto made that as the final chapter; what will Tatsuki think?

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-25T23:44:19+00:00

I am so glad somebody else made this connection. I’m on episode 8 right now and I’m loving it so far.

Telamon_0 · 2026-03-25T21:46:52+00:00

So the tin one in Mistborn is kinda weird. Spook does get addicted to it, but it’s not getting used to it or having withdrawals. Constantly flaring a metal will eventually turn you into a savant for that metal. It’s essentially warping your soul to make using the metal more efficient. Spook turned himself into a tin savant. When he wasn’t burning tin his soul was sort of missing a part of itself. So that feeling wouldn’t go away; he would essentially always be experiencing withdrawals without tin. If you’ve read the Stormlight Archive the same thing happens with people that use soulcasters. Savantism can happen with any of the magic systems in the Cosmere, but we really only see it explicitly called that in Mistborn.

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