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A solid retelling of the origin story.

I probably needed this as escort reading along with the Lanterns show.

Something something catch a tiger by the tail something.

200 pages and he hasn't really let up to give the reader a chance to breathe. It's a little exhausting.

And here we go.

Darrow: I shall brood. I shall brood as none have brooded before.

Baby: THE POWER OF CUTE COMPELS YOU.

Moron.

And here we get to one of the dangers of our stovepiped echo chambers of information in modern media. If updating your mental model to adapt your beliefs requires not just one, but some preponderance of anomalies breaking the old model down, living in a bubble where such anomalies are never made available makes it impossible to change.

And here we go...

My father used to describe watching me as watching "this great ball of genius mixed with this great ball of stupidity."

Watching Darrow, I think I understand.

You lack the courage of your convictions, boy.

Oh, FFS.

"...from Mercury to Pluto."

Was Pluto still a planet in 2015?

Nobles listening, learning, and acting on what they've learned, like they're experiencing personal growth? In this economy?

I live in fear that someone's playing a ruse and it's all a trick that will come crashing down,

Teft *knows* something.

"That single event had to be the most monumentally stupid thing anyone, in any kingdom, in any era, had ever done."

Oh Kaladin, you sweet doofus. It's only book one

First time two POV characters really cross paths and we're just going to ignore it and let Kaladin sink back into grumbling. Ok then, Sanderson. You're a meany-head.

Good Morning and Mssr Sanderson will be offering up all your worst nightmares about weather come to life. Enjoy!

I'm into the section about how to use Columbo's techniques, and I'm paraphrasing a physicist's quote about theologians: "I climbed a mountain to learn rhetorical strategy and, when I got the top, an elicitor was there waiting for me."

Welp, THAT just happened.

Food and safety - everyone wants them and the person who can given them to you will be first in your loyalty list in most circumstances. Kaladin is a clever man.

Skim continues. Dream and Ritual journals start tomorrow.

Prophecy blows.

And why, pray tell, are we erasing the memories of former spouses? I am suspicious.

"The loss of Gavilar had nearly crushed Dalinar, and Adolin would never forgive the Parshendi for bringing his father such pain."

These sorts of statements pretty much exist to be made false by future story development.