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I wish, when King creates an effective formless force or presence, he would stop putting a face on it late in the story.

I really wish King would stop spoiling events in his own books.

This main character does a lot of things that rub me the wrong way.

Some really cool ideas with the supernatural "friend" who doesn't seem to be a ghost, exactly. The foreshadowing in this book is a lot more than just a shadow, though.

King name-drops The Ramones here, as Louis plays one of their songs in the car. I wonder if that's why The Ramones were chosen to write the song "Pet Sematary" for the first movie version.

"Oh, about beer I never lie," Crandall said. "A man who lies about beer makes enemies."

Some really nice metaphors in this.

Very glad two of those subplots seem to be closed now.

"It was our optimism," Elend said, stepping forward. "We wanted to change things, Jastes, not destroy them!"

Sazed's desk was filled with loose papers, two sets of ink and pen waiting to be used. There were no books; Keepers had no need of such.
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She pushed the written passage over to Sazed; even with his mental indexes and self-notes, it would be faster for her to write out the passage than it would be for him to try and find it within his own copperminds.

Or just have a book, and show him.

Out of context Mistborn quote time:

"I did it dozens of times with dozens of women, but never with the one that would have made the experience special."

Vin smiled. "Do you think we'll ever have balls again?"

I really don't like this subplot with the assembly and royal elections.

Sanderson really lays on thick how despicable Straff Venture is.

I really don't like the history of the Hero of Ages being doled out one sentence at a time at the beginning of each chapter. You expect me to follow a narrative separated that much? Why not give me a chapter at the beginning of each act?

I'm sad for Sazed's disappointment that he didn't get the excited students, eager to learn, like he hoped.

At first I was sad that Vin rejected that friendly dog, but a couple of pages later I was glad.

Nope, no twist. It was just an extremely long dénouement after all.

As far as I can tell, the climax happened a while ago, and this seems to be an extremely long dénouement. But maybe there's a plot twist still to come and it's not really over.