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Yeah, it's extremely short, and one of the worst in the series. Pretty ho hum without much excitement. The first book of his new series is pretty mediocre too. I was disappointed on both....

[quote]Your taste in movies is even worse than your taste in games. [/quote] :lol: This was the first thing I thought when seeing this thread. It must really suck to go through life not enjoying anything because you have terrible taste like this guy....

Mine is The Drawing of the Three followed closely by The Waste Lands. ...

1. Winter Soldier 2. GOTG 3. Ragnarok 4. Iron Man 5. Avengers...

[quote]The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan[/quote] Great series. The prequel series seems quite good as well, though I've only read the first so far....

[quote]Solid magic rules [/quote] I think Sanderson is the best in the business in terms of magic systems. He's done it in multiple books with multiple different systems that are all super inventive and well done. ...

[quote]Kelsier was fricking amazing dude [/quote] Kelsier is great for sure, but he's only one character. None of the other characters in the series are particularly memorable at all (Sazed is as well to a certain extent). I honestly couldn't tell you another characters name from the series out...

[quote] Book 1 of the third series is damn near unreadable[/quote] It is definitely much slower than the others, but I think it does a wonderful job of showing the relationship between Molly and Fitz as well as Bee. It really sets the tone for the last two books in that trilogy. And the ending fo...

[quote]Brandon Sanderson does a pretty good job of building a world and developing characters, imo. [/quote] I actually found the characters to be by far the weakest part of the Mistborn series. I think his world building and in particular the magic system are fantastic. I actually much prefer...

[quote]We don't know if thats going to happen in the books unless I missed something [/quote] The show runners have said that her being burned alive by Stannis came straight from Martin, but who knows I guess....

Eh, it's not really a satire as much as just a realistic portrayal of how the world works. There is no real humor or irony being used in the majority of that series....

It's a very good series. I put it on my lists of book series I think are better than The Name of the Wind when we had that discussion a while back(and several people fairly called me crazy, though I still think so). The first trilogy is the best I think, but all of the Fitz books and the Liveshi...

[quote]And book 3 ended with a bit of a cliffhanger and it looks more and more like Scott Lynch is channeling his inner JRR Martin and will never publish the next damn book!!! [/quote] It took him forever to get book 3 out too. Though I give Lynch a pass compared to Rothfuss and Martin because...

[quote]The best way is based on how students grades + test scores + behavior improved from year to year. The issue is some teachers will avoid certain grades/discipline because they will thing it means a raise[/quote] This is a terrible way to judge things, for the very reason you mentioned. It's...

[quote] and the other is a conclusion to the series, allegedly.[/quote] Cook was talking about writing this book back in like 2005-2006, so I'll kinda believe it when I see it on this one. Though it looks like Port of Shadows (the prequel one you mentioned) is finally coming out in the fall after...

[quote]I just finished the Book of Murgen. Didn't love it, but liked Croaker and Lady. Are the next books his POV? [/quote] The second to last book, Water Sleeps, is written in the POV of Sleepy. The last book goes back to Croaker's POV. Both are tremendous improvements over the Murgen books (I ...

First Law series- Joe Abercrombie Night Angel series - Brent Weeks Riyria series - Michael Sullivan The Faithful and the Fallen- John Gwynne The Lies of Locke Lamora- Scott Lynch Malazan series by Steven Erikson (I would start with the second book of this series and then read the first one if y...

[quote]Not at all accurate. I just did the numbers on my wife's hours/salary and it comes out to $26/hr. [/quote] Yeah, that's about where I am per hour averaged out over 9 months (25ish). And I don't run any clubs or coach any sports, so my per hour money would be higher than many at my school....

[quote]Every teacher in the country knew the pay scale when they decided to take the job. If you dont like it, quit, someone else will be glad to waste all day on shite work and send home 3 hours of homework for the parents to figure out. [/quote] Actually, for many they didn't know they would ...

[quote]Needs to be our win gif all year^ [/quote] :lol: Agreed....