{"id":4730,"date":"2014-11-11T23:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2015-01-20T19:44:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T01:44:33","slug":"words-of-radiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=4730","title":{"rendered":"Words of Radiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/51RoBAb1oyL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/51RoBAb1oyL.jpg\" alt=\"51RoBAb1oyL\" width=\"324\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/51RoBAb1oyL.jpg 324w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/51RoBAb1oyL-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a>The problem with your website being down for two months is, you can&#8217;t remember what happened in between. I mean, no. I&#8217;m fully aware that I thought <a title=\"Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Words-Radiance-Stormlight-Archive-Book\/dp\/0765326361\/\" target=\"_blank\">Words of Radiance<\/a> was a good book, that it did another good job of being largely self-contained[1], that it did a great job of throwing a lot of new information and a lot of really cool new magic- and world-building, that I stayed invested in the characters.<\/p>\n<p>So all in all, I still have the sense of the thing. But themes? Discussion of specific plot points I might want to put behind spoiler space? I sincerely got nothing. The good news is, I haven&#8217;t read any other books in the meantime, and I&#8217;m bound to read this again, so probably you&#8217;ll get a replacement review which will be good, someday? And more importantly, no other shoddy book reviews!<\/p>\n<p>Shoddy movie review(s?), though? Probably.<\/p>\n<p>[1] That&#8217;s not what I mean, but I don&#8217;t know how to pithily encapsulate what I <em>do<\/em> mean. Which is that I felt like it told a complete chapter within its larger story, and did not leave me feeling cheated out of getting more Right Now. In short, it&#8217;s doing a good job of maintaining its place in third-wave epic fantasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with your website being down for two months is, you can&#8217;t remember what happened in between. I mean, no. I&#8217;m fully aware that I thought Words of Radiance was a good book, that it did another good job of being largely self-contained[1], that it did a great job of throwing a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1281,1254,1279],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-cosmere","tag-epic-fantasy","tag-the-stormlight-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}