Mistborn

> Fiction: The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson. Best fantasy books ever, IMO. I highly recommend listening to the GraphicAudio adaptation of this series. It's what got me into audiobooks.

I’m reading the mistborn books right now. I was up until 2 in the morning finishing the first book in the trilogy the other night. These books are fantastic!

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Fiction - I started reading the Cosmere universe by Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn Trilogy, Stormlight Archives, and Warbreaker. Pick 1 - Start with Warbreaker or Mistborn. I'm new to fantasy fiction and his writing totally hooked me. I think of "hard" fantasy as a puzzle. The world has a unique physics and the plot of the story is based around characters figuring out how to operate inside of those physics... what are the bounds, how can it be manipulated, etc? What I've loved about Sanderson is the plot turns are never Ex Machina. Every new development fits inside the rules of the world and deepens your understanding of what can be.

This is mine as well, I'll probably start it this week. I just finished Well of Ascension and really enjoying the series so far.

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson is next up on my list. Really enjoying Mistborn so far. Still working my way through the second book. I've also read a lot of his other work as well as the Wheel of Time. If anyone has recommendations for other fantasy novels/epics, I'm all ears!

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankel, it is his experience of how he managed to survive the concentration camps. Book of Mormon The Stormlight Archive series (Way of Kings, Words of Radience, Oathbringer) - Brandon Sanderson, I've heard it compared to the Kingkiller Chronicles in terms of depth, intricacies and overall masterfully executed plot but Sanderson is also one of the best authors at making characters real and captivating that I've ever met. Mistborn Series (The Final Empire, Well of Ascension, Hero of Ages) by the same author as The Stormlight Archives and for the same reasons. The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis, even if you aren't religious it has helped me see so much clearly the tactics and obstacles that prevent me from being the person I want to be. I've read quite a few more books more often but these are the books that I have reread multiple times because they have changed who I am and helped me recognize that each time I fall I can rise again a better man.

Well, I still read them almost every christmas. At least a few of them. I'd also recommend Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn series is very good, and Stormligh Archive is good so far. I really like his world-building, and I think the way he uses magic is something most HNers would approve of. It's often well defined, and the characters try to exploit it the same way a reader would.

I have to agree: Mistborn is an amazing experience.

This year I read 31 books. Only 8 were non-fiction. I'm hoping to finish another 2 before the year ends. My top 3 were. 1. The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. This series did a good job of balancing big and little picture, while givings us a neat form of magic to learn about. 2. Stock Market Cash Flow from the RDPD series. In 2016 I had read several books on fundamental(or value) investing, and this book helped me bust out of the thinking that, that style is the only way to look at, and earn in the stock market. 3. Snow Crash. This book was just fun. The characters were enjoyable to watch, and there was some clever stuff in this book.

Riyria Revelations trilogy - quite good. Follows two thieves for hire. Read the books in publication order Ready player one - liked it samurai's garden Expanse series by James Corey entertaining Steelheart and Firefight by Sanderson- good but like Mistborn better Worm online serial parahumans good Nonfiction I read: Delivering happiness, Drive, Power of Habit, Power of full engagement

Oh, I love some good world-building, and especially when there is a set of rules that's followed to their consequences. [Ayuc sums it up nicely in this comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9056594 ] If you look at it this way, it CAN be done in fantasy. Check out Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker (a great one-off), or the Mistborn series. (There are quite a few similarities between them.) Or Max Brooks' World War Z was great in this way, I think. Although it's been quite a while since I read that. (I know this is an older thread, so I hope you'll find this comment. Made a HN account for this. :D )

Audiobook: I just finished Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I highly recommend it if you're into fantasy type novels. It has a unique magic system and is very well written. I've been off and on with War and Peace for a while. Kind of dry so far. Kindle: The Law by Frederic Bastiat, extremely good book describing the fundamental purpose of law and government. Dead Tree: Essence of Discrete Mathematics by Neville Dean, seems to be pretty good book, just haven't devoted enough time to reading it.

You won't be disappointed. The WoKings was a bit odd at the start. He dumps you right into the middle, and I was somewhat confused by everything changing so fast, but you quickly realise this is in a way intentional, and works well in the long run. Also, if you haven't read the Mistborn trilogy, I highly suggest it. It's a great, unique setting, and I had a great time with it. Finally, his other books are great as well. Elantris and Warbreaker, each different, and great for single novel stories. I'm a big fan of the long arcs of great epics, but these one-off's were well worth the time invested. Basically, he's an author that will require me to buy everything he writes for as long as he's writing.

1. Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts): So good that mom stayed up until 3AM to finish it. 2. Mistborn trilogy (brandon sanderson): Gripping storytelling and by far one of the best fantasy books i've ever read. 3. Millennium trilogy (steig larsson): Hard to slot this book. On its face it is a thriller but the book is merely the medium through which the author lashes out against crimes toward women and corruption.In 2008, he was the second-best selling author in the world 4. American Shaolin (Matthew Polly): An exciting read but still do not know what is fact and what is fiction. .

Last fiction - The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross Before that - The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson (recommended to all fantasy fans) Last technical - AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis