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Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began....

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I will finally finish Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson in the next 2-3 days. I must say that my feelings towards this series really turned around in this book, I am really glad I stuck with the series.

Picking up I'll Be Gone the Dark, by Michelle McNamara this week - excited to read this been hearing a lot of good things about it.

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Finishing up Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson. Absolutely phenomenal. The guy is great at world building and character development.

About to start The Deep, by Nick Cutter

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Reading Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson

This is the second book in the Stormlight Archive. I'm about a third of the way through the book, and it's definitely good, but not better than the first. I had heard that the first book was a lot of world building, and that this one was a lot better. I really enjoyed the first book, and I suppose that the second is much more story driven, but it isn't particularly more exciting or fast paced. But it is definitely good!

This will probably be a four star for me, unless some awesome action makes its way in and stays for quite a while. I suppose it's difficult to make an 1,100 page book fast paced though.

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Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson

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Hannibal Rising, by Thomas Harris Not his best work, but powering through it nonetheless. It's serving more as an interlude until Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson gets delivered.

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I finished The Sympathizer, by Viet Than Nguyen . I think it might be my new favourite book of all time. Highly recommend.

I started reading Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson . I loved Way of Kings, I’m digging this one so far.

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Will be finishing Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson this week. I've really enjoyed it. Have about 250 pages left. I'm going to take a break from SLA for a while, but I'll probably get around to Oathbringer sometime next year

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I finished The Secret History, By Donna Tartt, which was absolutely amazing. One of my favorite books of all time. I couldn’t put it down.

I also finished my reread of Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson, and am starting to finally read Oathbringer this week.

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Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson

This guy is great at world building. Just started reading it and thoroughly enjoying the hell out of it.

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It's been a while since I last did one of these - well - two weeks, so not that long.

But I've finished The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson and Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson

In my opinion both 5/5 stars. The action is great, although there isn't much in the first book. The characters and their development are very interesting. The worldbuilding and everything related to it is, obviously, great, since that must be Brandon Sanderson's forté. I guess if beautiful prose is really your thing, then Brandon might not be for you, but I don't find it a problem at all.

These books will probably compete with The Witcher for my favourite fantasy series.

Currently reading Oathbringer, by Brandon Sanderson Halfway through it - great so far. I use the word "great" way too much, when talking about books. I'm jsut excited to soon be finished with the Cosmere, so I can delve into the fandom without fear of spoilers.

Next up is The Alloy of Law, by Brandon Sanderson and the rest of Era 2 and also The Book of Joy, by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

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I finished The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson and although it was a bit slow at first, I got totally hooked after about 1/3 of the way in. I love Brandon Sanderson and I’ve heard great things about The Stormlight Archive so I’m really glad I finally picked it up!

I also finished The Book of Joan, by Lidia Yuknavitch. I did not enjoy this book at all. In fact, I almost stopped reading it a couple of times but ended up pushing through it because it’s a short book.

I am about to start reading Foundation, by Isaac Asimov and Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson

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Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson

I tried mistborn and couldn't get into it, tried Way of Kings after some reading online that a lot of people didn't care for it but still loved stormlight archive and so I started Way of Kings and fell in love!

Once I finished it started on the sequel a couple days later as I couldn't wait. Loving Words and can't wait to get to Oath bringer and then I'll be waiting on yet another fantasy series, but at least Sanderson is fast!

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I finished Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson it was very good but I preferred way of kings slightly more.

I started The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco

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I finished both Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson and Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson this week, and I just started the next book in the series, Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. This series (Stormlight Archives) has quickly become my favorite series I've ever read, and I can't read them fast enough!

Comment from [Reddit user] with 3 upvotes on /r/books/

About a third of the way through Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson and I'm enjoying it immensely. It picks up right where The Way of Kings left off and I'm intrigued to see where it goes.

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I started reading Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson and the Stormlight Archive is easily becoming my favorite series. Hopefully I can finish it this week so I can start Edgedancer, by Brandon Sanderson by this weekend and maybe start and finish Oathbringer by the end of the year.

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Finished:

Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert

Started:

Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert

Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson

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Just finished reading Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson Definetly one of mye facorite books, grear world, characters, pacing and interesting lore. Will pick up oathbringer today.

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I finished Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson. Thoroughly enjoyed that. Don't know if I will immediately jump into Oathbringer though.

I started with The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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Planning on finishing Scythe by Neal Shusterman this week and The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas. AB is a re-read from like 2013, and that's been...interesting.

Scythe is reading more like an expository tale, so I'm a little disappointed by that. Neal Shusterman comes up with some wild worldbuilding though, let me tell you.

I've been sitting on Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson for a month now, but I'll pick it up again this week thanks to some more encouragement from a friend. I told him all the things that were stressing me out (I'm like 100 pages in) about the story, and he was like ....just...keep...going....

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I finally finished Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. I notice a common theme in this series in that the first 60% is rather dull, then for the next 20% it gets a little better, and the final 20% you just can't put it down.

Really curious what role Wit plays in all of this. I guess it will be Edgedancer and Warbreaker before Oathbringer?

I might take a little detour and finish some other books on my backlog before continuing the series.

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I finished reading Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk earlier this week and just started Warbreaker, by Brandon Sanderson in preparation for Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson.

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Finished Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson. I'm hooked.

Started The First Crusade, by Peter Frankopan. Really hoping the book isn't too dry.

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Just started Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson. Kind of late to the Sanderson hypetrain, but I'm really enjoying this series.

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I finished Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson. I thought Way of Kings was great, but this one was even better. I'm looking forward to diving into Edgedancer and Oathbringer in the future, but I plan on reading Warbreaker before I do that.

I started Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe. Wolfe's prose is very nice, but it's quite hard to comprehend everything. This is the kind of book that I would probably need to re-read multiple times to get the most out of it.

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Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson

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H*ck, I love this series. I read 1-11 like three times before I could finally finish the series because I would get burnt out by 11. If you haven't tried them and have nothing against audiobooks, the ones for this series are done well! It may be slower than reading yourself but it's nice to drive to!

Also, if you haven't already, you should give the Stormlight Archive series, by Brandon Sanderson a read! He finished up The Wheel of Time after Robert Jordan passed, as I'm sure you know, and his writing and world building is amazing.

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Just finished the Words Of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson and started Death's End, by Liu Cixin. Currently switching between the 2 series as normally i binge a series until i either give up or feel an emptyness when it's over. Definitely been a lot of fun

EDIT: finished Death's end, really good until like 2/3rds in, then it kind of went shitty. Ending was a bit lame unless i missed some things. I just don't understand liu cixin's fascination with fish