Scott Lynch's "Gentlemen Bastards" series is decent, though the prevailing

Oct 27, 2016
1:39:49pm

joelvandyne Contributor

opinion seems to be that the first book is the high water mark. They're fantasy-caper stories reminiscent of the first Mistborn.

Report problem with this ad

joelvandyne

Bio page: joelvandyne
Joined: Jun 16, 2015
Last login: May 12, 2024
Total posts: 24,424 (10,193 FO)

Report problem with this ad

Messages

Author

Time

Looks like "The Stormlight Archive" will be "fast tracked" to the big screen

RSLCoug

10/27/16 1:12pm

It's on book 2 of 10. So... that will be interesting.

SandYFan

10/27/16 1:13pm

Looks like they'll be doing mistborn right away as well.

Zilog

10/27/16 1:17pm

Mistborn will make for the best movies IMO.

cruiserhead

10/27/16 1:21pm

Stormlight does give kind of a different colour to fantasy, doesn't it?

RSLCoug

10/27/16 1:22pm

Warbreaker could be a good movie as well.

SpiffCoug

10/27/16 1:23pm

Agree. That would be cool.

cruiserhead

10/27/16 1:36pm

The book was rubbish, but am excited to see it in the theatre on the fortnight

BlueFrog

10/27/16 1:28pm

Oh pish posh

MantiCoug

10/27/16 1:30pm

I thoroughly enjoyed Mistborne.

UneducatedFan

10/27/16 1:41pm

woah. Bourne and Mistborn...together at last. EPIC!!

Cougarclaw

10/27/16 1:42pm

How in the world will it not be rated R, though?

NorthernLight

10/27/16 1:55pm

Agree. I see more avenues to a bad Way of Kings movie than a good one.

Future_Tacos

10/27/16 1:59pm

I wonder if this explains why he's fallen off the pace?

SpiffCoug

10/27/16 1:19pm

He's getting too big. ANd writing and doing too many things.. Can't keep up now

Zilog

10/27/16 1:20pm

Hofstadter's Law.

joelvandyne

10/27/16 1:28pm

He's been predicting a 2017 release for a while, at least since last Dec

BlueBlood

10/27/16 1:30pm

And in that same blog entry, he said Stormlight would be his main writing focus. Clearly it hasn't been.

SpiffCoug

10/27/16 1:39pm

yeah, but that's always what he does. He's always doing projects between "big" writes.

BlueBlood

10/27/16 1:47pm

plus, it was 3.5 years between stormlight 1 (Aug 2010) and 2 (Mar 2014).

BlueBlood

10/27/16 1:37pm

To be fair, he wrote the final Wheel of Time book in that span as well, which

joelvandyne

10/27/16 1:42pm

What others produce similar stuff to Brandon Sanderson? I've heard his

gwalker

10/27/16 1:30pm

Name of the Wind, Rothfuss.

SandYFan

10/27/16 1:32pm

He's never gonna finish the 3rd book.

benny1982

10/27/16 1:34pm

That is a concern.

SandYFan

10/27/16 1:36pm

Scott Lynch's "Gentlemen Bastards" series is decent, though the prevailing

joelvandyne

10/27/16 1:39pm

I'd echo that he had a sophomore and junior slump.

JDBlue

10/27/16 2:05pm

Lies of Locke Lamora is among best I've read. VERY entertaining.

BYU-Texas

10/27/16 7:28pm

He's comparable, I suppose, to Orson Scott Card

Mises

10/27/16 1:45pm

Robert Jordan, Brent Weeks and Michael Sullivan are pretty similar.

JDBlue

10/27/16 2:08pm

These things happen a lot, but not always do they become Big Screen movies.

TheLoneCougar

10/27/16 1:46pm

It still has a long way to go, but The Stormlight Achive is looking to be my

Spine

10/27/16 3:37pm

Same here.

Posting on CougarBoard