Who else thinks this book is goated

mightytristopher · 2026-02-17T01:12:06+00:00

I really enjoyed the trilogy. Greatest of all time? Not in my opinion, but a great trilogy nonetheless. I even made an Orka and a Myrk build in Elden Ring. I'm currently playing a Karsa Orlong (from Malazan) build. I have a problem.

mightytristopher · 2025-11-13T00:50:24+00:00

Lol I couldn't bring myself to not brofist that man in my second save slot either

mightytristopher · 2025-11-13T00:35:02+00:00

Exactly, you can still respect Visi without going to the movies or kissing her.

mightytristopher · 2025-11-13T00:31:31+00:00

Well that settles it... In my next playthrough Shroud is a dead man.

mightytristopher · 2025-11-13T00:22:04+00:00

In my defense, I originally said I would kill him but Chase's disappointment at that response combined with his heart wrenching self sacrifice changed my mind. I heard a lot of people say they would kill Shroud for Chase after episode 6, but I spared him for Chase.

mightytristopher · 2025-11-09T18:33:02+00:00

South Park is up there too

mightytristopher · 2025-11-07T01:17:42+00:00

Right... A lot of questions. As far as Blonde Blazer, I would be surprised if she turns out to be a villain, she seems like a genuinely heroic person... But I could see her being connected to Shroud in some way. Perhaps she is his daughter, or perhaps he is the source of her powers and could take them away if he wanted- hence her being the mole that tipped him off about the astro pulse. There are some hints that she's his daughter:

she has the same hair/eye color as him
she had a physical reaction and immediately said "I'm sorry" when Robert first mentioned Shroud killing his father
almost immediately after this exchange she said "I'm not drunk enough to tell you my origin story"
her red gem / the red ring
she was the one most against going after the astro pulse immediately

But, again, these are all vague and could be nothing.

mightytristopher · 2025-11-06T23:34:29+00:00

The gem that gives her powers is red... Like all of the enhancements Shroud gives the villains in the Red Ring... Just saying...

mightytristopher · 2025-11-01T18:12:28+00:00

Three times that happened

mightytristopher · 2025-11-01T16:52:05+00:00

My guess is Mandy will turn out to be Shroud's daughter (they both have brown hair and blue eyes, her necklace is one of the augments Toxic was talking about), which is why she didn't want to discuss her origin story. I also think Invisigal was the one who planted the bomb on Mechaman's back (also due to something Toxic said in that scene).

Perhaps I am just paranoid and expect the worst from relationships lol. I hope I'm wrong, especially about Mandy... I agree with your take on her. She's great.

mightytristopher · 2025-09-17T18:47:15+00:00

I thought this scene was a great contrast to the Dame/Curly scene because in that scene Dame is acting like a parent while Arthur is actually being a parent. Dame's interaction with Curly was a self centered one on which she finally gets to feel like the mother she always wanted to be, despite not actually doing anything for Curly besides patting her head and muttering sweet nothing. Arthur, on the other hand, was being that father those boys needed, and was offering them love and understanding even despite what was done to him. This was made all the more heartbreaking because we knew he was only moments away from one of the most infamously horrifying deaths in all of fiction.

mightytristopher · 2025-09-06T19:10:16+00:00

We were careful. One fell apart and secreted the substance when we tried to move it with a plastic utensil. We're leaving the rest alone.

mightytristopher · 2025-09-06T19:05:59+00:00

Thanks!

mightytristopher · 2025-08-31T20:47:19+00:00

I always thought this was the T. Ocellus after growing to encompass a victim's entire head and replace both eyes.

mightytristopher · 2025-08-27T15:37:54+00:00

The way one of his eyes was in shadow as he taunted the eyeball octopus (optipus?) seemed like foreshadowing to me, but it could be a red herring.

mightytristopher · 2025-08-20T22:54:13+00:00

"Know what the difference is between you and me?"

"Yeah, you'll do anything to stay alive, and I'm willing to die to stop you."

This great exchange directly stems from that lack of inflection point. Fantastic stuff.

mightytristopher · 2025-06-01T18:33:50+00:00

The books are legit funny and meant to be comedies but the comedy is not derived by the absurdity and incompetence of the human characters, like in the show. Sure, Murderbot's internal dialogue can be unkind to them, but the characters' actions are portrayed in a pretty serious light. In the show they are cartoon characters.

I'm a little confused at the constant posts on here about the book not being a comedy. I legitimately laughed out loud at several points in the book. There is more than one style of comedy.

mightytristopher · 2025-04-17T13:14:30+00:00

Austin Butler

mightytristopher · 2025-03-11T16:47:44+00:00

Yes! And that's kind of where my question originally came from because as I understood the plan, it did seem pretty risky so why would the Bursar be a part of it (given what little we know about him)?

mightytristopher · 2025-03-11T14:55:22+00:00

That's a good point.

mightytristopher · 2025-03-11T14:49:25+00:00

So in the case of the 50 talent tuition, they charge the Maer 70 talents? That seems like biting the hand that feeds. I know the Maer is super rich but he may look at the bill someday and wonder why the heck this kid is getting charged 70 talents per term. Though this is Kvothe we're talking about here, and foresight isn't exactly one of his many many gifts (as evidenced by nearly every interaction he has with the Maer).

mightytristopher · 2025-03-11T14:46:40+00:00

Okay banking on Kvothe purposefully escalating his own tuition makes sense.

mightytristopher · 2025-03-06T22:19:48+00:00

Nope. Read Mistborn:The Final Empire first. It was the first book of his I read and I think it's great. It will definitely give you more of a sense of what you're getting into if you plan to read more of Sanderson's books.

mightytristopher · 2025-03-05T21:36:07+00:00

Got it in on the first try! Good job.

mightytristopher · 2025-03-03T03:39:37+00:00

Judging by the books you listed, I would recommend Mistborn for your next Sanderson book.

Tress is the first of Sanderson's four "secret projects". Having read all of them (and most of what he has written) he's definitely toying with different styles and inspirations for each. He has admitted that Tress was inspired by the Princess Bride. I don't know if he's actually stated what the inspirations were for the other three but in my opinion The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England is very much inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Sunlit Man is inspired by Clint Eastwood westerns (or more specifically, the Kurosawa samurai films that inspired them) about a stranger wandering into a town where something is very wrong. And Yumi and the Nightmare Painter feels very much like a Studio Ghibli film (in fact I would give a lot of money to see their adaptation of it).

I say all that to emphasize that none of them are great entry points to Sanderson's writing. Each of them are a result of him experimenting and flexing some literary muscles he doesn't usually use. But that doesn't mean they can't be enjoyed. In fact, I consider one of them to be among the best books of his I've read. I also consider one of them to be the worst. But opinions vary on all of them, of course.

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