Mistborn Era 1 Book 1 The Final Empire: Magic, Slave Rebellion: Tristram Johnson, Woke Centrist
By: Andrew Meintzer
Tags: Mindgasms Podcast, Mistborn, The Final Empire, Magic, Mixed Mental Arts

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Newest Mindgasms Book Club Chat with Tristram Johnson from our Mixed Mental Arts Chats on The Wheel of Time books, and The Woke Centrist, about The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson. This is the first novel in era 1 of the Mistborn series. The Main character is Vin, who joins the rebel named Kelsier’s slave rebellion. There is an awesome and detailed hard magic system, and the plot also centers around heists, espionage, romance and a conspiracy to assassinate the Lord Ruler, the evil leader of the society.

Check out my last Mindgasms Tremor with the Woke Centrist on the epic Wheel of Time fantasy series, by Robert Jordan:

Check out my last Mindgasms Quickie about The Fall of Gondolin: Tolkien’s EPIC Fantasy War: Balrogs, Dragons, Dark Eleves, Demons and Orcs VS. Wizards, Gods, Light Elves and Men. It all takes place in the First Age of Middle Earth. The Lord of the Rings is the end of the third age. it becomes the Fourth Age right at the conclusion of the story. In The Fall of Gondolon, Tuor, Prince of Men and grandfather of Elrond (because the latter is half-Elven), is main character. Gandalf and Legolas have cameos, and Glorfindel is a principle character, who kills the Lord of the Balrogs (head Balrog), gets murdered himself in the process, then gets resurrected later and helps save Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin from the Ringwaiths in The Fellowship of the Ring. Also, Malkior is the leader of Morgoth’s armies who attack Gondolin. And Aerendil helps Tuor capture and imprison Morgoth after (they think) they killed all the balrogs, and all the dragons except two of them. One of them has to be Smaug, in The Hobbit. I wonder who the other one is. Tuor dies and loses his silmaril (obviously from The Silmarlon.) Aerendil casts his into the sea. Sauron, created by Morgoth, possibly escapes imprisonmemt. There is a prophecy at the end that Morgoth will come back one day, and Arrendil will also, to stop him.) (Aerendil is a grear seafairer who is half-eleven also, and of course has one of the silmarils:

Check out my first Mindgasms Book Club Chat with the Woke Centrist and Parker on the novel called The Stand, by Stephen King. It’s about a virus that destroys society and decimates the human population, along with the people who meet and form two new cities and governments that go to religious war with each other in this post-apocalyptic world. We discuss the way that the nature of good and evil are explored in the book, including how that binary is slightly broken down by the good characters being flawed and having traces of evil in them, and the bad characters having traces of good in them. The different moral choices that the characters make that push them toward either the light, led by Mother Abigail, or the dark. led by The Dark Man A.K.A. Randall Flagg, are also explored. We talk about the importance of valuing heart and intuition more than intellect in the novel as well, along with the religious purpose that the characters serve, and the eternal struggle between good and evil that is shown at the end of the book. Also, we talk about relationships, how they relate to those between the characters in The Stand, and joke about domestic violence:

Check out my playlist with both Book Club Chats that I’ve done so far with Dusty and others: