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I’m reading The Well of Ascension, the second book of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy

I like how he has the slow, almost clinical way of revealing interesting worlds and systems. It’s not the kind of book that’ll make me cry, but I really like world building with fun enough characters

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the second book is a bit slow with all the politics, but it's worth it because book three is the best of the trilogy

i've been working my way through all of the cosmere (after starting with mistborn), currently on book 3 of stormlight archive. can't put em down

> It’s not the kind of book that’ll make me cry

I thought so too, until I read the 2nd Mistborn trilogy!

Wait until you hear a detailed explanation of the magic system for the 5th time. Still a good series.

Well I often forget the rules, so its useful :)

I was just listening to a Sanderson interview. He's annoyed by it too. It's his publisher wanting the books to be easy to get into. He's dealing with it in Mistborn era 3 where's he's trying to figure out how to re-explain everything and it's annoying him because he just wants to show allomancers doing cool stuff.

He's blaming the publishers now? I only managed to go through like 2 or 3 Mistborns before I got absolutely bored about the "technical" explanations. I've never read a D&D manual but I think it would be as fun.

Now if anyone would invest in him continuing Elantris...

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