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I personally have a really soft spot for Sanderson's first Mistborn trilogy. The Final Empire, Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages. It checks all my boxes.

His opus is the The Stormlight Archive which is really good but still being written. The fourth volume of that comes out in a month. They're all super huge tomes though, equal to multiple smaller books.

For a standalone introduction Elantris is probably okay. Its his first book, and probably his weakest as a result, but the characters are interesting and it tells a neat self contained story.

If you want to get away fromt eh fantasy stuff, he has a sort of superhero series with The Reckoners, and you can start with Steelheart which works as a standalone, but if you like it there's three more after it.

LOL. Nowhere near as bad as reading it in real time as they were coming out. It took me nearly 15!

It reeeeally slows down and slogs in the middle, doesn't it? I can only imagine how bad it would have been if Sanderson hadn't taken over at the end.

On that note, you should read Brandon Sanderson now. He's fantastic.

I did not have the blast sling beforehand. I did not yet realize you really needed to set up traps in advance.

It was not a pleasant fight. Took me several tries.

I later went back to try it again and it was easy once I knew what I was doing. But yes, its a game that demands you get all the weapons.

The ones I've found so far have pretty much been on the way. And should probably take priority over basically any other side quest.

Yeah, the girls were sort of terrible to Matt in that one. That's something that lingers for a looooong while and I never liked that. The next one is pretty good as I remember it. You're almost to the point where I caught up to the series as it was releasing! (#8 Path of Daggers was the most recent one when I started.)

Really? Only seven total by book 5? I swear it was more. Either he really starts hammering it in later or its just such a distinctive phrase it stands out.... but its defnitely been a fandom joke forever. Shame you haven't been also tracking Nynaeve's braid pulls.

ANd yeah, that was the volume with no Perrin. WHich I never cared for since he's one of my favorites.

Btw I saw Deadpool about... Two weeks ago now and... I really loved that movie... It was a ton of fun and a real blast to sit through. Ryan Reynolds has completely redeemed himself in my eyes, and evidently in the rest of the Internet's eyes, which is good imo, given that I never really thought he was a bad actor... He didn't choose good roles to be fair but... I always thought that he had a lot of promise and got more flack then he deserved... So I feel strangely proud that everyone else has done a complete 180 on him but I'd supported him pretty much from the get go... It's funny how the Internet works like that sometimes...

Also, WMR is my first real Patreon just FYI. I'm not really sure if I want to support another Patreon honestly but... Maybe Todd in the Shadows would be a decent one to support at the 5 dollar level... He's the only TGWTG producer that I still follow on a regular basis because... Honestly the dude's funny as Hell and has a really good sense of timing and confidence in himself as a performer that I wish that other TGWTG reviewers still/ever had and a ton of knowledge about the music he reviews (and music in general) that makes his videos a constant pleasure to watch. I was also very pleasantly surprised to find out that he's evidently viewed as the "best" reviewer on TGWTG by most people... Because I came to that conclusion all by myself by just stumbling on his review of the Lazy Song one day in 2011 and I really liked his style so I'm very happy to find out that more people realized that he was brilliant.

Hey dude how's it going? So, you're a Champion level Patreon for Weekly Manga Recap also right? I became one last month, because I wanted to hear the special podcasts that were only available to the Champion level subscribers and so I've been able to access a few but... Do you know how to access some of the older special podcasts they did like when Chris/Rollo T listed off his top 10 manga badasses or his top 10 sports he wants to see made into a manga (where he apparently pitches the idea to Nik, therein creating the hilarity ) I haven't been able to access those for some reason and so I was wondering if you knew how to access them even if I've only pledge money to WMR recently. Any help with that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

And a happy birthday to you !!! <3