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Gabriel

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Member since January 10, 2007

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Mistborn : The Final Empire - Rated Good

I enjoyed Mistborn. Although I was initially somewhat hesitant as the opening sections of the book gave me the impression that I might not care for it. Initially, there was a significant amount of danger of the novel browbeating the reader into a political position: proletariat good, bourgeois bad. It is not that I don’t sympathize with the argument, I just don’t want it used as a crutch in place of character development and an engaging narrative.

Suffice it to say that after sticking with the book for about 70 pages things picked up considerably and the characters began to get interesting. Sanderson did a fine job with creating an imaginative worldscape for the reader. It is very amenable to immersion and responds well to the pokings of daydreams. The characters themselves are interesting, though I would say not inspired. To counter that, the worldscape is both interesting AND inspired.

This is a very fun book that is grand for a quick read. I would file it under the larger umbrella of braincandy, but that is a pretty ok place to be. After all, it is out of the rain.

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