Holy fricking shit this book was good. For fear of spoilers I will not be returning to this thread, but I just needed to get that off of my chest before I start reading Words of Radiance
Holy fucking shit this book was good.
Holy fricking shit this book was good. For fear of spoilers I will not be returning to this thread, but I just needed to get that off of my chest before I start reading Words of Radiance
it doesn't last
yea, it was pretty sick
was it book 3 for you as well?
>was it book 3 for you as well?
NTA but book 3 was where thing started to go downhill. Sanderson's books often devolve into multiple cosmic forces doing "battle" which sucks because he's good at writing interpersonal conflict but he insists on making it about forces of nature fighting each other for heavenly dominance. Oathbringer was also the book where the Shallan character goes off the deep and and does not get better. Really annoying because she's one of the "three" main pov characters so a full 1/3 of the next couple books become suffering to read unless you want to hear what her headmates think of everything. Thought she was a fun character before she became defined by her mental illness too.
So what you're saying is that Sanderson wrote his own version of Egwene?
I fricking hated Shallan in WoK, WoR and OB but I kind of changed my mind after RoW. Getting the last few missing pieces of her backstory made her a lot more sympathetic imo.
OB is also my favorite out of the mainline Stormlight books, but if you aren't into the worldbuilding or Dalinar's story there's not a lot there.
Why not?
What did I miss? It's just kinda marvel slop like. Even Rothfuss was better than this
name of the wind was very well written, people just cry about the character being cringe
the way of kings does almost everything 'right' despite it's hero structure
Felt the same but then I keept reading the series and oh no no no....
you, my dear friend, are obviously moronic
>I’m going to praise this objectively shit author and not return to defend my position
Incredible bait
Okay I lied, because I'm back, but I'm glad that you guys didn't immediately spoil the series for me. I've felt like even the slightest bit of world building be revealed to me is like a spoiler because of how invested I was in tWoK. Sucks to hear that it starts falling off at Oathbringer, but I'll just have to read it all to see what I think. I'm gonna start on WoR tomorrow.
It got me back into reading novels after 5 years, so I'll always be grateful for it doing that
>Sucks to hear that it starts falling off at Oathbringer
I think it starts falling off hard but millions of other people don't think so so don't let our dislike of it affect your enjoyment. I duty read book 4 and hated over 50% of it but even that had some high moments. The only downside is they are 1000 pages long. Book 1 is still one of my favorite books ever.
>don't let our dislike of it affect your enjoyment
What fricking site am I on?
IQfy got invaded by redditors after the protest shutdown.
>IQfy got invaded by redditors after the protest shutdown.
And I'm never leaving.
>IQfy got invaded by [thing I don't like] after XYZ.
This meme has been around since at least 2012, hasn't it?
I'm sorry to break it too you but I've been here all along.
That's what pisses me on, the first book is actually good the every other book qdter gets worst
I shouldn't wright while drunk but got the point
*YOU
goddamn i'm retarted
what are you drinking, m8? me I just gulp down a bottle of some cheap wine once every Friday all by myself, alone in my sad little apartment. I hope it's not unhealthy as I've been doing this for like half a year now. Doesn't feel unhealthy.
>drinks one bottle of wine a week for less than a year
>IS IT UNHEALTHY GUISE
Bro you can drink a lot more than that without seriously hurting yourself
I suppose you're right. I never consumed any alcohol growing up because I had no friends and didn't go to parties, and I've just started as an adult so I'm completely new to this still
The first book could be decent if all the bloated boring shit were edited away.
Ditched the book halfway in. I think there wasn't a single thing that I really liked about it. All characters were annoying, and the worldbuilding was just so cringe for my liking. It's nice that others like it, but it's not something that I enjoyed in the slightest.
someone post it
Book 1 and 2 are great. Sanderson is going to follow in the footsteps of Robert Jordan though. Prepare for the slog.
What do you mean?
Robert Jordan wrote The Wheel of Time which Brandon Sanderson completed for him after his death. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time was a good fantasy series that had TONS of books that were absolute slogs and his fans dredge through it because they just wanted the end of the story. Sanderson will do the same. Stormlight Archive is set to be a TEN BOOK series. It's gonna become a slogfest if he doesn't improve on book 5. I'm in for the long haul though. I can't quit now cause I already read so much.
If brando has one writing skill down pat it's pacing. When he got his hands on Wheel of Time he floored it for 3000 pages to tie up all the loose ends. RoW was a slog but given how this series is structured it seems like that's mostly because it's setting up for the climax of the first 5 books.
I'm still buying book five. Sanderson does write a good ending to his novels at least. I'm dreading if 6-9 are slogs cause I'm so invested that my ass will buy them all just to see the conclusion in book 10. Same shit happen to me with the wheel of time. I feel like I should stick to long series that have shorter page counts like Tony Hillerman or Jim Butcher. But I see big epics and I have to read em.
Sanderson would benefit a lot from not writing fantasy characters like west-coast liberals from the 2010s. So much of what is otherwise serviceable writing is ruined by the characters talking like Joss Whedon characters.
I started reading it and I got to the cheesy Matrix fight in the hallway and it was probably roughly around that point that I realized "I'm an adult and need to start reading better things."
lol what chapter are you talking about
The prologue where they have a fight using magic. I don't remember, I read it when it came out.
>stopped reading at the prologue
are you for real
I know pseuds like to read 300 pages before they decide if a book is worth their time or not, but thankfully I'm not moronic.
>pseuds
pseud detected
WoK + WoR is a pretty solid fantasy story (even is Shallan is kind of a waste of space in book 1). Oathbringer is so fricking bad I quit about 4/5ths through, and I already bought RoW because I was enjoying the series so much. Sanderson is a complete hack and probably just got lucky with the first two books.
his lauded worldbuilding:
>what if... CRUSTACEANS
Is mistborn any good? I prefer reading paper books but for stuff I don’t have time for (like fantaslop) I can listen to at the gym and I need recommendations
it's good currently reading can recommend but i am a fantasy slop enjoyer so take my word for a granted
He is the most prolific and high profile authour of our day and this is alongside the fact while also having high functioning down syndrome is so inspiring