>read 2000+ pages
>each book in the series is worse than the first book
why the FRICK did I just spend 2 months of my life reading every Stormlight book?? The first book is amazing and then... it never is that good again.
>read 2000+ pages. >each book in the series is worse than the first book
This is what happens when you spend 10+ years writing the first two books and then write the next two in the span of few years, while at the same time juggling other projects. Brando Sando believed in his own meme and fame and fell on his face.
>This is what happens when you spend 10+ years writing the first two books and then write the next two in the span of few years
Maybe you're right. I do recall him saying it took him 10 years to write the first book but then magically could write the next ones each in 2 years a piece (while writing another series and 10 one shots).
>Brando Sando believed in his own meme and fame and fell on his face.
>fell on his face
He fell so hard he only got up to $41.7 million on kickstarter
Popularity is not an indicator of quality. Fifty Shades and other dogshit books are wildly popular and successful but objectively terrible.
Stop using 'objectively' wrong. Hordes of rabid middle aged woman will call it the best book ever. God awful taste or not that proves it isn't 'objectively' bad. Taste and preference doesn't HAVE objectivity.
Hordes of rabid middle aged women also think killing a human fetus is objectively a good thing to do.
Money is not a sufficiently objective metric to indicate quality in the absence of objectivity. The point is that society rewards people who play the game the best with currency. Sandersneed played the game real well, and was rewarded with currency. Snowqueens Icedragon figured out that all she needed to do to make her Twilight fanfic successful was to change the names of all the characters. For this, she was rewarded with currency.
An award of currency implies literally nothing except in the capacity that currency has been awarded. The problem is that this IS objectively "incorrect." It's a societal inefficiency if we're rewarding people who play the game better than people who are actually good at things. Being good at being awarded currency is not a socially useful behavior.
You sound autistic
you couldn’t tell by the end of book one that it was garbage? that’s your own fault. that female character was insufferable
There is nothing wrong with Shallan
>There is nothing wrong with Shallan
There is nothing wrong with Shallan in books 1-2. Book 3 she is pretty far up her own ass and by book 4 she becomes fully defined by her mental illness while also withholding information from the rest of the characters. It becomes conflict because characters won't just talk to each other.
I really liked book 1-2 Shallan too. Tragic what BS did to her. You can have characters with mental illness without them becoming defined by it.
Shallan is the only character that's interesting.
You have to be trolling. I'm a big fan of Shallan, but Kaladin is the best. Going from being the son of a surgeon, to being in the military, to becoming a slave... Then rising back up? C'mon dude
What is wrong with you?
>that female character was insufferable
You obviously aren't a feminist if you don't think Shallan isn't a great character.
Tried reading The Way of Kings, stopped around 5% or something, basically when the edgy guy dressed in white was skuling off after some party to either kill someone or steal some shit, I don't know didn't get that far, when he keeps breaking the fricking action to give me an info of how the world works. It's like a video game tutorial that pauses the action to teach you how things work.
"So he was in front of the guards, and he starts sucking energy dick to power himself up right - real quick tho, before we continue lemme explain how he sucked energy dick and what that power was - 10 mins later - ok so he was about to do a teleport right? oh wait let me tell you how teleports work, there's like 3 kinds"
Stopped there.
Dialogue is "nothing personel kid" level.
>Tried reading The Way of Kings, stopped around 5% or something, basically when the edgy guy dressed in white was skuling off after some party to either kill someone
That was like 0.5% and I stopped reading it the first time at that part too. I HATE prologues and prologue-like scenes.
The rest of the book gets going about 50 pages later once we finish not 1, not 2, but 3 (THREE) flashbacks and reach present time. Kaladin with "Bridge Four" is pure kino.
I'm an old frick, so whatever book doesn't grab me, or at least shows some potential 10-20 pages in I leave.
That's fair.
>Starts several thousand page series
>Dosent have patience for a slow first 10-20 pages
Really Black folk?
Michael Bay makes movies for these guys.
I agree with you except the first book is shit just like the others. Sanderson desperately needs an editor.
I don't get it, why'd he need an editor? His writing his good and pretty descriptive.
>why'd he need an editor?
There are a lot of plot lines and entire characters that are not needed for the plot. Sometimes he'll have multiple characters when a single character would suffice.
>There are a lot of plot lines and entire characters that are not needed for the plot. Sometimes he'll have multiple characters when a single character would suffice.
I'm going through The Way of Kings and so far the only character's PoV which has felt unneeded was Adolin, and even that was kept to such a minimum that it didn't bother me in the slightest. The mixture of Kaladin, Shallan and Dalinar has been juggled quite well so far.
Oh, and I actually absolutely love the minor character intermissions.
I'm surprised to see IQfy holding such a low opinion of Brandon Sanderson. Is it the usual IQfy contrarian trite? While his world-building might not be on Tolkien's level, this is the most fun I've had reading high-fantasy since finishing Silmarillion.
>I'm going through The Way of Kings
TWOK felt a lot tighter to me than the rest of the series. Every sentence in book 1 ends up having meaning and despite being a very long book Sanderson is excellent with setup and payoff. This gets muddied (in my opinion) in books 3-4 where the page counts increase but the payoff doesn't match.
Book 1 is still my favorite book that's come out in years but for me the series never hits those high notes again.
>I'm surprised to see IQfy holding such a low opinion of Brandon Sanderson. Is it the usual IQfy contrarian trite? While his world-building might not be on Tolkien's level, this is the most fun I've had reading high-fantasy since finishing Silmarillion.
Not him, but its not "IQfy contrarian" to acknowledge that BrandoSando fricking sucks at anything other than his "hard magic systems"
Stormlight is one of the highest rated series on Goodreads and everyone I know in real life who reads BS loves his books. The man is famous in the fantasy world and boatloads of people rate the series as their favorite of all time. I read it, it's pretty good, though I don't rave over it. So these opinions really are IQfy contrarian nonsense. Like always. IQfy rarely has sane opinions. You just spend your life on this board so you wouldn't know, I guess
Is Elantris any good?
imagine spending ten years of your life writing way of kings and it's the best you could come up with
>The first book is amazing
Here's the thing... It wasn't.
Go back and reread it now.
You'll see all the same flaws and poor writing that plagues all the other ones.