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So, I read the first two books in 2014, when the second book came out. After remembering how much I loved Sanderson (thanks, Elantris!) I decided to re-read so that I could get to Oathbringer.

I'm now a little past the part in WoK where

Dalinar has his first vision (that we see) during a Highstorm / Sadeas has just been made Head Knight of Investigations or whatever the title was

and I'm realizing just how little I remember of the first book. I have this niggling thing about Sadeas (and helloooooo, foreshadowing) but I literally can't remember if
he can be trusted or if he betrays Dalinar
and it's killing me inside. :laugh:

How have you all managed to remember anything about the books, especially so many years after they came out? Do you always re-read?
 

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I look things up on the Coppermind :laugh: I did the same with WoT when I picked up Knife of Dreams last month. Reading the plot summary for the previous books is usually enough to refresh my memory.
 
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I generally resort to relistening to the audiobook version of the older books before the new book comes out. :look:
 

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I did a re-listen to WoK before I listened to WoR for the first time (and now I'm on Oathbringer) and I'm sooooo glad I did, because I forgot TONS of things, which I don't usually do D:
 

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I didn't start reading until Oathbringer came out, so I just read them all back-to-back in the span of 3 weeks. :look:
 

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OMG I also recently started a reread. I'm a bit ahead of you. I won't say where as to avoid spoilers for you, but I seem to remember more than you, though still not a lot. Like I remember mostly how the second thing you mention ends up, but not the specific details of how.

It's nice reading through the early stuff while having a better understanding of how the world works, because the early stuff makes more sense to me now.

Anyway, yay reread buddies!
 

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OMG I also recently started a reread. I'm a bit ahead of you. I won't say where as to avoid spoilers for you, but I seem to remember more than you, though still not a lot. Like I remember mostly how the second thing you mention ends up, but not the specific details of how.

It's nice reading through the early stuff while having a better understanding of how the world works, because the early stuff makes more sense to me now.

Anyway, yay reread buddies!

Ooooh now I wanna catch up to you! :laugh: Funnily enough I remember some of the Kal storyline and more of the Shallan one, but Dalinar is just... :cheeseeni:
 

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I read WoK back before WoR came out and hated it. Like, it was one of those books where I forced myself to finish it, because hey, so many of my friends loved it, I must just be missing something... Nope, two reads through, hated it.

Then Audible gave me the WoK for free (I forget why :look:). And I really like Michael Kramer and Kate Reading (even if she can't pronounce "legionaire." :look:) And I find that I really enjoy Sanderson's work being read to me, but I can't stand reading it myself. I find his phrasing odd, his editor needs sacked, and the little niggles in text irritate me if I read it myself. But somehow, I can ignore that when it's being narrated. The odd niggles are still there, but they're not as annoying to me.

Anyway, to come back to the original question - having read WoK twice, I thought I knew the story quite well. Blimey, I'd forgotten a lot :laugh: For example (spoilers for near the end of the book):

I was fairly sure that Dalinar challenged Sadeas to a duel and that somehow Adolin died...
I also thought that Kaladin's father died.
I remembered Shallan becoming Jasnah's apprenctice/ward without being poisoned. And I didn't remember the dodgy priest dude being a true bad guy.

So... yeah. It's amazing how one's mind mixes things up.
 

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Yeah, I am not a big fan of WoK, but I consider WoR some of Sandersons best work. It may be because I have very little patience with Kaladin :look:
 

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She pronounces it "legion-ah-rey" :look:
 

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Oooh. Something I was watching/listening to recently said it that way too, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
 

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She pronounces it "legion-ah-rey" :look:
lolwut? wwhhhyyyy? :laugh:

Shallan is actually my least favorite of the 4 main characters. I think for me it's Kaladin, Szeth, Dalinar, Shallan. But I like the Shallan bits because I love Jasnah so damn much.
 

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I have no idea why. I did even go back to the books to make sure it wasn't spelled a weird way, but nope... Pass!

I was trying to decide who I found most irritating in the series... Most of the characters irritate me a lot of the time. Perhaps this is why I found the books so difficult to read :laugh:
 

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I have a problem with people who go around feeling sorry for themselves and are almost constantly depressed. Like Kaladin :indifferent:
 

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One thing I had forgotten was how Szeth's story plays out. I remembered where he ends up at the end of WoK but couldn't remember how he got there.

But i just read the part where
his stone is acquired by the karbaranth king, though we don't technically know that yet, and he gets the list of important people to kill
 

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I have a problem with people who go around feeling sorry for themselves and are almost constantly depressed. Like Kaladin :indifferent:
I can agree with you on always feeling sorry for themselves, but I think Sanderson did a decent job showing what clinical depression as a mental illness can look like. I know from his forward that he even consulted at least one psychologist to help with that aspect.
 

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One thing I had forgotten was how Szeth's story plays out. I remembered where he ends up at the end of WoK but couldn't remember how he got there.

But i just read the part where

So I quoted your post to say just HOW MUCH I want to click on the spoiler thing but won't because I don't actually want to be spoiled... and of course it showed the spoiler typed out in the quote section because BBCode :laugh: (luckily I closed my eyes fast enough that I didn't read anything by accident except I think the word 'kill' and then squinted just enough to see where I was deleting but not what... :laugh:)
 

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After Oathbringer came out I decided to do a re+read because I realized I remember next to nothing from the first two books. That was a good decision, because during my first read I did not understand the concept of the world, but I read online about it and then it made more sense when I was re-reading it. Or... I actually listened to the books, so much easier :cheeseeni:

Save to say - I cannot wait to re-read them again, I enjoyed them so much more the second time around :laugh:
 
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