Arkhandus
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Finished re-reading my old copies of Robotech: The Sentinels last week. Still entertaining after all these years.
Just finished reading The Hero Of Ages, book 3 of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy, yesterday. A good read and a good ending to the series (at least, I'm assuming he's not planning a 4th Mistborn novel....there's not much left for a 4th novel to cover in that story, though, since it would be more like an expanded epilogue), albeit not the ending I was expecting. A good deal of stuff is explained or made clear in the 3rd novel, but some things remain a mystery.
The geeky/nerdy part of me is disappointed that Vin never discovered the last 2 Allomantic metals, even though she had another year or two before she needed to try stopping Ruin; she had already discovered 2 or 3 Allomantic metals in the 1st novel that most of the Final Empire wasn't aware of (due to the Lord Ruler's secrets and the teachings of his priests), and another 1 or 2 other Allomantic metals in the 2nd novel, but for some reason never bothered to try out any other metals afterward to discover the last 2 Allomantically-useful metals. So the last 2 Allomantic enhancement metals remain a mystery, along with many of the Feruchemical and Hemalurgical uses of the 16 Allomantic metals. Though it's mentioned in the book that the Lord Ruler almost certainly knew those secrets himself. The appendix at the back of the 3rd book notes the Feruchemical and Hemalurgical uses for a few metals, but leaves most of them unknown. The geeky part of me is disappointed by that, but oh well.
Now I'm started on reading Twilight, book 3 of the Dark Templar trilogy for StarCraft. I enjoy reading more about the StarCraft universe, the previous two books (Firstborn and Shadow Hunters) were good. Then I'll finally read T.H. White's The Once And Future King.
Just finished reading The Hero Of Ages, book 3 of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy, yesterday. A good read and a good ending to the series (at least, I'm assuming he's not planning a 4th Mistborn novel....there's not much left for a 4th novel to cover in that story, though, since it would be more like an expanded epilogue), albeit not the ending I was expecting. A good deal of stuff is explained or made clear in the 3rd novel, but some things remain a mystery.
The geeky/nerdy part of me is disappointed that Vin never discovered the last 2 Allomantic metals, even though she had another year or two before she needed to try stopping Ruin; she had already discovered 2 or 3 Allomantic metals in the 1st novel that most of the Final Empire wasn't aware of (due to the Lord Ruler's secrets and the teachings of his priests), and another 1 or 2 other Allomantic metals in the 2nd novel, but for some reason never bothered to try out any other metals afterward to discover the last 2 Allomantically-useful metals. So the last 2 Allomantic enhancement metals remain a mystery, along with many of the Feruchemical and Hemalurgical uses of the 16 Allomantic metals. Though it's mentioned in the book that the Lord Ruler almost certainly knew those secrets himself. The appendix at the back of the 3rd book notes the Feruchemical and Hemalurgical uses for a few metals, but leaves most of them unknown. The geeky part of me is disappointed by that, but oh well.
Now I'm started on reading Twilight, book 3 of the Dark Templar trilogy for StarCraft. I enjoy reading more about the StarCraft universe, the previous two books (Firstborn and Shadow Hunters) were good. Then I'll finally read T.H. White's The Once And Future King.
