We read Towers of Midnight, Book 13 of The Wheel of Time.

Next month we'll be reading all of Alcatraz vs The Shattered Lens, Episode Airs: Feb 18th.

Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, amputation, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones , classism, colonization, death, domestic violence, fetishization, gaslighting, gender roles, hallucinations, insanity, J.K. Rowling, kink, knives, maiming, misogyny, murder, mutilation, rape, real world violence, religious extremism, self harm, sexual content, sexual violence, slavery, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, terminal illness, transphobia, trauma, undeath, Vietnam War, wounds and infection

Jordan Quote About Language: https://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/1mv9wv/language_in_the_world_of_wot/

Interviews Jack Cited

https://aidanmoher.com/blog/2010/11/interviews/interview-brandon-sanderson-author-of-towers-of-midnight-and-the-way-of-kings/

https://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=547

Jack's Rankings

The Way of Kings
Warbreaker
Mistborn
Alcatraz vs. the Scrivener's Bones
The Hero of Ages
Elantris
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
Alcatraz vs. the Knights of Crystallia (Book 3)
The Well of Ascension

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On this part two we finish The Way of Kings, making this comfortably our longest episode yet. Apologies for getting this out a day later than I said I would, the flu took me out.

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Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, caste systems, child abuse, child death, christian imagery, classism, colonization, death, decapitation, discussion of sexuality, disembowelment, domestic violence, exsanguination, gaslighting, genocide, human sacrifice, insanity, knives, maiming, mind control, misogyny, mormonism, murder, mutation, mutilation, racism, rape culture, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, settler colonialism, sexual content, sex work, slavery, slave races, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, surgery, terminal illness, undeath, wounds and infection

Works Mentioned

A Wizard of Earthsea

The Grace of Kings

Don Quixote

Exhalation

Stories of Your Life

Arrival

Le Mort de Arthur

David Graeber The Dawn of Everything

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On this episode we read The Way of Kings, a book so massive we really only talk about the plot of the book in the last third of the episode.

We split this episode in half because of how big this book is. It's slow, methodical, and we talked about it for 8 and a half hours.

Happy New Year folks, I wish you a wonderful and safe start to 2025.

Next Month: We read the entirety of Towers of Midnight, Episode Airs: January 28th.

Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, caste systems, child abuse, child death, christian imagery, classism, colonization, death, decapitation, discussion of sexuality, disembowelment, domestic violence, exsanguination, gaslighting, genocide, human sacrifice, insanity, knives, maiming, marital rape, mind control, misogyny, mormonism, murder, mutation, mutilation, racism, rape, rape culture, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, settler colonialism, sexual content, sex work, slavery, slave races, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, surgery, terminal illness, undeath, wounds and infection

Correction: Graham does not have the most liked 1 star review of Tress of the Emerald Sea anymore, there are several other reviews that have dethroned them.

Correction: about 34 minutes in, Graham says 4,000 years but means 1,000.

Correction 1:36:50 It is the Stormfather speaking to Kaladin who says this, not a Dalinar vision.

The Mormon Church’s tax exempt status in 1978 came under threat because of their views on race and excluding black men from the priesthood. The president of the church received a divine revelation.

MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING FOR BOOKS 1-4 OF THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE: The Most Mormon Magic System: How Brandon Sanderson Turned Agency into Fantasy by Liz Busby

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - Normally we'd link this on our bookshop, but it second hand or get it from the library.

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