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Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)

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James said: " It's hard for me to be entirely objective with these books. Like the Wheel of time I can pick out flaws but really I just like spending time in this world. One thing I like is that yes- these books can be violent and bad things happen- but there is a ...more "

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The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

by Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author)

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The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

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‘Do you not wish to know my name?’ ‘No,’ he growled. ‘I will call you Dayliss.’

That’s just cold Karsa…It’s amazing the character growth he goes through in this series.

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“I am bored, Darrow. I am terminally bored. I yearn for the clash. I yearn for martial sensation. So gratitude, Reaper. Gratitude, foe, for this! The ultimate honor between peers—a conversation in the language we both have mastered. Violence. Surely there can be no greater distillation of all our mutual respect, animus, and quality.” His eyelids flare back. “Gratitude for answering my summons. Gratitude for granting me this final communion.” His eyes flick to my bald head where the first sprouts of new hair are emerging. “Depilated and dilapidated though you may be.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

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“Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak. They carried infections. They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct. They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. They carried lice and ringworm and leeches and paddy algae and various rots and molds. They carried the land itself—Vietnam, the place, the soil—a powdery orange-red dust that covered their boots and fatigues and faces. They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

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