Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #62

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

I'm putting aside fiction for a while, I recently started "Chaos: Making a new science" :marseysoylentgrin: by James Gleick, it's a pop science intro for Chaos Theory but a well-researched one which doesn't fall into quackery. Also thanks to our !mathematics friends for their textbook recommendations

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GOATomine gar/cher Yorokobe shounen 3mo ago #6874153

Finished The Hundred Years' war book, pretty good info on the war but felt a bit general as well as the first book of the Powder Mage Trilogy. It's a fine read but nothing more. I've become more adverse to stories that have massacres and violence as I've stop reading the second book. It's a war novel but i've just got tired of the violence from comics that it spilt over to literature.

Does anyone recommend any fantasy novels? Tried WoT and didn't like it and Brandon Sanderson gets passed around a lot.

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nuclearshill gau/cho GOATomine 3mo ago #6874207

Tried WoT and didn't like it and Brandon Sanderson gets passed around a lot.

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https://old.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/r6jt1b/jordan_v_sanderson_vocabulary_visualised/

Here's a bit of trivia.

The word "channeler(s)" is used 251 times in the books.

RJ uses it 3 times in chapters, and 6 times in the glossaries.

That's a total of 9 times he uses that word in the 12 books he wrote for WoT.

Sanderson uses the word the remaining 242 times in the 3 books he wrote.

Also

It is the case indeed. Jordan uses "said" 13,607 times in 3,360,919 words, Sanderson 8,779 times in 968,185. That's once every 247 words for Jordan and once every 110 for Sanderson. In summary, Sanderson uses it 2.24 times more often than Jordan

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